Owner and Principal Strategy Consultant: experienced strategist, thought partner, and senior project manager for social impact organizations and entrepreneurs. Accomplished facilitator in complex stakeholder collaborations.

October 2024-present - Senior Consultant - rejoining my great colleagues at Luma after my sabbatical providing impactful strategy consulting to our amazing changemakers and philanthropists in the nonprofit sector!2005-2022 - Partner and Managing Partner (2018-2022)For Luma clients:• Principal senior strategy project consultant for chief executives and boards of over 60 charitable organizations in the US. Instrumental in facilitation of group processes that produced several dozen strategy and business plans for health and human services, youth, environmental, arts and culture, education, and international organizations. Lead author of all plans.• Representative consulting engagement-Global Development: Oversaw complex philanthropic four-year investment of Global Agriculture unit of the world’s largest philanthropy. Multi-million dollar investment tested DARPA modeling software for use in decision support of complex food security challenges in Africa. Managed a collaboration of over 150 contributors from government, academia, research, and private enterprise. Guided project team of three analysts.• Researcher and author of white papers on sustainable food systems and nonprofit organizational capacity building.

Lead all operations of a startup total-football-based soccer IQ training company. Managed investor relations, coaching recruitment, accounting services, and backoffice online setup.

• Led team of five IT/IS staff and 15 technical contractors in social enterprise serving over 500 nonprofits in the Puget Sound area of Washington State, helping nonprofits better use technology to meet their missions. • Grew billable hours 340% and consulting revenue 450% over my tenure as Director.