ADVISORY & CONSULTING
Clear direction.
Stronger organizations.
When your mission is ambitious and the next move matters, it helps to have a partner who has led the work. I help nonprofit executives, leadership teams, and boards connect brand, communications, fundraising, and supporter engagement around a practical strategy for growth.
I take on a small number of advisory engagements each year, so each one gets focused, senior attention. The scope is shaped around your organization, your capacity, and the decision or challenge in front of you.
Ways to work together
Executive advisory
For leaders making consequential decisions. A strategic thought partner when you need to weigh priorities, invest limited resources, align a team, or work through change.
We start with the question you need to answer, examine the options and tradeoffs, and identify a practical way forward. Engagements can include one focused decision or an agreed series of advisory conversations.
What the work can produce: a decision brief, a clear set of priorities, recommendations on team or investment choices, and documented next steps with ownership.
Focused strategy engagements
For a defined challenge that needs dedicated attention. A review of your current approach, conversations with relevant stakeholders, and recommendations your team can put to work.
Brand & positioning: a positioning framework, audience priorities, a messaging platform, and guidance for consistent communication.
Fundraising & growth: an assessment of your current approach, opportunities across giving programs, and a prioritized plan for testing and investment.
Supporter experience: a journey review across marketing, fundraising, and advocacy, with recommendations for stronger engagement and clearer handoffs.
What the work can produce: a concise assessment, an agreed strategic framework, and a roadmap that identifies priorities, responsibilities, and measures of progress.
Leadership workshops & speaking
For a team or audience ready to think differently and move forward. Facilitated sessions and talks on integrated marketing and fundraising, storytelling, global engagement, supporter relationships, and leading through change.
What the work can produce: a session shaped around your objectives, a shared understanding of the challenge, and a summary of decisions and practical next steps. For speaking invitations, we agree on the audience, theme, and format in advance.
The experience behind the advice
My work spans annual giving, digital fundraising, major gifts, capital campaigns, sponsorships, corporate partnerships, brand strategy, advocacy, and audience growth. I have built multidisciplinary teams, led across 21 countries and six languages, and helped organizations connect their strategy with the people and infrastructure needed to deliver it.
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How we begin
Tell me what you are working toward, where you are getting stuck, and any timing you have in mind. We start with a conversation about what useful progress would look like.
If there is a good fit, I propose an engagement with clear deliverables, scope, responsibilities, timing, and fees. We agree on those before the work begins.