How I Work
I invest in teams, projects and opportunities I believe in.
With a focus on strategy, partnerships, managing for impact and community,
I collaborate with clients on immediate priorities and driving forward real change.
Strategy
I thrive being a strategic thought partner to senior leadership and teams, as well as a listening forward partner to diverse stakeholders, advancing moonshot thinking and executing on all the organizational plumbing and advocacy of getting big ideas to take off.
Whether through trend analysis, program design or development, board and executive stewardship, policy recommendations, stakeholder consultations, synthesizing emerging research and data, or honing in on a theory of change, I bring a passion for cutting through complexity to identifying actionable paths forward.
Partnerships
Relationships matter. Whether aligning funding and highly visible partnerships or navigating byzantine bureaucracy and resource strapped markets, how we show up in the world and build connections is often at the heart and sustainability of success. My greatest professional accomplishment is a cherished network of changemakers and a sense of global family, working across sectors, to better the world.
Whether brokering new partnerships and voices at the table, enlisting first backers, researching prospects, landing or diversifying critical resourcing, activating networks, ensuring long term traction or facilitating dialog, I bring vetted relationship management to my work advancing ambitious and targeted collaborations.
Managing for Impact
With functional expertise across a range of sectors, I consider myself a versatile force multiplier and nimble systems thinker to deliver global change. I approach new projects with a roll up your sleeves mentality and curiosity for continuous learning, often straddling the lines of being a thinker and a doer, always managing for impact.
With core competencies in project and grant management, operations, financial planning and organizational development, I often advocate for and implement the fundamentals that allow healthy teams to thrive and grow. I also bring robust communication, advocacy and evaluation skills to my work to ensure client investments, whether surgical or sustained, drive forward tangible outcomes and leverage both high value opportunities and long term bridge building.
Community
Building belonging and community organizing is a core piece of who I am in the wider world. I seek connection and activism, whether through grassroots campaigning for leaders I believe in or by convening women I admire in feminist gatherings to share our stories, heartbreaks, learnings and resilience.
I believe in global citizenry, the healing of art and science (and West Coast yoga), authentic mentorship (warts and all), social justice, anti-ableism and anti-racism as lifetime journeys, and I believe that we are all stewards of change in a moment when we have collectively reached a tipping point on so many shared and interconnected reckonings.