1. Mapping the Route
Clarify where you want to go and how

Services might include:

• Strategic planning and roadmap development

• Vision and mission alignment

• Identifying core Values

• Long-term sustainability and revenue planning

• Fundraising strategy and donor cultivation

• Organizational pivots, growth strategy, or sunset planning

Whether you’re navigating a new direction, facing tough questions about sustainability, or simply feeling stuck—I help you reconnect to your mission and chart a realistic, compelling path forward.

You don’t need to know the exact destination to start moving. But let’s at least find your compass!

2. Making Camp.
Stabilize, regroup, and build internal capacity.

Services might include:

• Guiding CEO and others in leadership

• Developing the Board of Directors and Evaluating Governance Structures

• Simplifying messages. Defining terms

• Stabilizing or restructuring the org

• Clarifying roles, priorities, focus

• Managing a crisis

• Acting as Interim CEO if needed

Sometimes the smartest move is to pause! Reset expectations. Redistribute the weight you’re carrying. Are you doing too many much? Rebuild trust in each other and in yourselves. I step in when organizations need to catch their breath and regain stability—without losing momentum.

Making camp is the leadership equivalent of putting your backpacks down and asking, “What’s really going on here?”

3. Building a Campfire. Complete one critical initiative—well.

Services might include:

• Facilitating a key meeting or retreat

• Writing a grant proposal

• Designing and executing a big event

• Assessing Monitoring, Evaluation, and Metrics on your programs

• Report writing

• Concept notes, Briefing materials

• Messages press releases.

Progress often comes from knocking one big thing off the list. I help design and execute high-stakes initiatives where clarity, pacing, and trust are essential.

Whether it’s lighting a fire or keeping one burning, I help you make that next bold move count.

4. Traveling Together.
Gather allies. Build bridges. Spark momentum.

Services might include:

• Stakeholder mapping

• Listening better to stakeholders

• Building coalitions

• Advocacy strategy or public policy messages

• Respecting and bringing communities more into the center of your work

• Finding new partners

If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together!

I help organizations listen better, convene more effectively, and grow coalitions that go beyond tokenism—toward shared power and aligned purpose.

The trail is easier, better, safer, more fun, and more effective when walked with others. I help you listen, learn, engage, and collaborate.

My Trail Guide Framework

An avid hiker, I often think in terms of the outdoors, particularly for perspective — handling multiple points of view on responding to vast complex problems. Some organizations are just setting out on their journey. Some are lost. Others need help regrouping, or traveling with others.

Wherever you are on the trail, I help you find your footing—and move forward with purpose