Strategy
I help organizations and leaders navigate complexity, understand their audiences, clarify direction, identify opportunities, and move meaningful work forward.
I work across education, nonprofit, and communications environments, partnering with leaders at every level to make sense of challenges, possibilities and performance. Through research, assessment, audience insight, strategic thinking, and creative problem-solving, I develop insights, recommendations, plans, and solutions that turn uncertainty into informed strategic action.
WHAT I HELP NAVIGATE
Foundations & Fundamentals
Foundations & Fundamentals
Foundations & Fundamentals
In complex and rapidly changing environments, it can be difficult to distinguish what matters most. I help identify the core ideas, strengths, principles, capabilities, and structures worth preserving, strengthening, and building upon.
Complexity
Foundations & Fundamentals
Foundations & Fundamentals
Making sense of competing priorities, multiple perspectives, information, and possibilities to establish priorities, identify patterns, and determine where to focus.
Change & Transition
Foundations & Fundamentals
Uncertainty & Strategic Risk
Understanding what is changing, what needs to evolve, and how to move thoughtfully from the current state toward a stronger future.
Uncertainty & Strategic Risk
Uncertainty & Strategic Risk
Uncertainty & Strategic Risk
Creating clarity, strategic direction, and practical guardrails when information is incomplete, conditions are shifting, or decisions carry risk.
Opportunity & Growth
Uncertainty & Strategic Risk
Futures & Possibility
Identifying emerging opportunities, audiences, partnerships, and ideas that can strengthen performance, create value, and advance meaningful goals.
Futures & Possibility
Uncertainty & Strategic Risk
Futures & Possibility
Exploring emerging trends and possibilities, imagining what could be next, and identifying pathways toward a desired future.
"A perfect balance between expertise and relatability. Her recommendations were practical, empowering, and delivered with a tone that truly resonated with our community. I could see minds shifting in real time. Several participants remarked, 'Okay, I’ll give that a try."
Ad Prima Charter School
STRATEGIC SERVICES
Research & Assessment
Communication, Media & Narrative
Research & Assessment
Research and assessment that surface meaningful insights, clarify needs and opportunities, and inform strategic decisions.
Includes:
Research design • Audience & stakeholder research • Program assessment • Environmental scans • Qualitative & mixed method research • Insight synthesis • Findings & reporting • Recommendations
Strategy & Solutions
Communication, Media & Narrative
Research & Assessment
Strategic thinking, planning, and problem-solving that clarify direction, priorities, audiences, and opportunities—and translate insight into action.
Includes:
Strategic planning • Organizational initiatives • Program strategy • Audience strategy • Opportunity identification • Strategic recommendations • Decision support
Program & Experiential Design
Communication, Media & Narrative
Communication, Media & Narrative
Designing programs, curricula, professional development, and immersive experiences that engage, strengthen capacity, amplify creativity, and drive transformation.
Includes:
Program development • Program revitalization • Curriculum design • Professional development • Learning experiences • Creative experiences • Engagement strategies
Communication, Media & Narrative
Communication, Media & Narrative
Communication, Media & Narrative
Developing communication, narratives, and media approaches that help organizations clarify ideas, reach audiences, navigate information environments, and create engagement.
Includes:
Strategic communication • Media strategy • Audience strategy • Message development • Narrative & storytelling • Thought leadership • Presentation strategy • Media literacy • Communication planning • Audience engagement
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