Strategic Advisor | Purpose-Led Transformation
I work across mission-driven startups, corporations, and philanthropic organizations, to translate purpose into strategy and strategy into positive outcomes — with the analytical rigor and relational intelligence needed to move complex initiatives forward.
About
As an independent strategic advisor, facilitator, and educator, I bring executive experience and a human-centered design approach to complex organizational challenges — delivering solutions that are as rigorous in practice as they are in thinking.
My foundational expertise in cultural anthropology, sociology, and urban planning shaped my early career leading award-winning community development initiatives for nonprofits and public sector organizations in Los Angeles and Detroit.
Transitioning to the private sector, I gained six years of progressive leadership experience, culminating in the role of Chief Social Impact Officer, where I strategically integrated social impact, customer success, and product innovation to drive business growth. As a key executive team member, I developed strategic presentations for investors and prospects, orchestrated critical initiatives bridging executive vision with tactical execution, and led global client engagements to scale CSR and philanthropic initiatives. Notably, I architected a foundational business intelligence database for an AI product, leveraging qualitative research and data analytics to unlock strategic insights and enhance product capabilities.
My work is grounded in a product-led, human-centered design methodology: I start with user research and stakeholder interviews to surface real needs, then design solutions — whether a product, program, or strategy — as testable pilots built to validate and scale, with people and planet at the heart of every decision.
Services
I work across three core practice areas, combining strategic thinking with hands-on delivery at every stage. Client engagements are tailored to specific needs and most often cross-disciplinary.
For leadership teams navigating change
I facilitate the hard work of getting teams on the same page: defining shared vision, translating strategy into operational plans, and ensuring cross-functional initiatives lead to positive outcomes. My projects are anchored in qualitative methods, conducting interviews and stakeholder research to surface real needs before proposing solutions. I then design programs and products as pilots built to validate before scaling. I'm particularly effective when an organization is growing, restructuring, or navigating change.
Deliverables
Strategy frameworks (V2MOM, OKR), leadership alignment sessions, user research and interview synthesis, pilot program design, customer journey maps, brand positioning artifacts, and pitch decks for capital raising and customer acquisition.
For organizations that need to build bridges across sectors, communities, and geographies
I identify non-obvious connections and convene the right people across industries, sectors, and geographies to unlock collaboration that wouldn't happen otherwise. Working in the liminal spaces between established structures, I help organizations build coalitions, activate partner ecosystems, and facilitate cross-sector initiatives that expand their reach and deepen their impact.
Deliverables
Stakeholder mapping and partner identification, coalition design and convening, cross-sector collaboration frameworks, and ecosystem engagement strategies.
For companies building credible sustainability strategy
I help corporate clients move beyond compliance to strategic sustainability aligned to business goals, global policy, and stakeholder expectations. Whether navigating the EU Empowering Consumers Directive, UK Social Value Act, or building an ESG narrative from scratch — I translate policy into positioning and action.
Deliverables
Social value strategy frameworks, green claims evaluation methodologies, communication guidelines, and policy alignment audits.
Signature Engagements
Every founder has a vision. The hard part is translating it into a strategy your team can execute, your stakeholders can rally behind, and your organization can actually grow into. This engagement is a catalyst — a structured space to get clear on where you’re going, why it matters, and exactly how you’re going to get there.
Start catalyzing your impact →The Process
You’ll Leave With
Best For
A marketing strategy or a product launch isn’t enough to drive organizational growth. Sustained success and growth hinges on establishing and nurturing the right relationships, activated at the right time. But most organizations don’t have a clear picture of their ecosystem: who’s already in their orbit, who’s missing, and how to turn either into steady momentum. This engagement goes beyond mapping your landscape — it builds the foundation for a community that keeps generating value long after we finish working together.
Let’s begin activating your ecosystem →The Process
You’ll Leave With
Best For
Most sustainability communications come from good intentions, but aren’t always aligned or adaptable to the rapidly evolving landscape — from consumer sentiment to regulatory policy. Teams make claims that feel true from the inside but haven’t been stress-tested against what regulators, customers, and stakeholders are actually scrutinizing. In a tightening regulatory environment, the gap between intention and evidence is where reputational and legal risk lives.
Discover where your claims run risk →The Process
You’ll Leave With
Best For
How I Work
I bring deep sector experience and a toolkit of proven frameworks so engagements begin with credible traction. My background means I recognize patterns quickly and design with precision from the start.
I don't just advise — I frame and build. Working closely with your team, I move from strategy to execution with agility: designing programs, products, and frameworks that are ready to activate.
Every solution is treated as a pilot first. I build in feedback loops to measure what's working, adapt in real time, and push toward outcomes that are grounded in evidence rather than assumption.
My goal is always to leave your organization more capable than I found it. I transfer frameworks, build internal capacity, and enable cultures of learning and accountability by creating deliverables and outcomes that are evergreen and built to scale.
I start by understanding your context, then build tailored solutions to test, validate, and scale — with people and planet at the heart of every decision.
My training in cultural anthropology, sociology, and urban planning informs an instinct for systems: I look for the human patterns, power structures, and environmental conditions that drive outcomes — and intervene where change is both possible and lasting.
Pedagogy & Facilitation
I currently serve as Adjunct Lecturer at GEM Alpine Business School, delivering graduate courses in sustainability strategy and organizational management — translating real-world consulting practice directly into applied learning for future impact leaders.
See Teaching & Facilitation →Learn how a human-centered design approach can benefit your team.
Start a conversation →Recent Engagements
A selection of current and recent client engagements — across sectors, geographies, and organizational scales.
Organizational Strategy · UK
Operationalized a full leadership and product strategy across departments and functions for an early-stage tech platform — clarifying product direction, roadmap, and MVP while embedding social value as both a brand differentiator and a client solution driver.
Product & GTM · Germany/EU
Developed the organizational V2MOM and go-to-market strategy for a mission-driven startup, translating a complex materials-science concept into compelling value propositions across personas, focusing on consumer markets.
Sustainability · UK
Developed and implemented an ongoing evaluation methodology and communication strategy ensuring a certified retail brand stays credibly aligned with UK and EU sustainability policies. Protects brand integrity while enabling confident, defensible public claims.
Philanthropy · USA
Designed a high-efficiency digital giving operations system enabling an ultra-high-net-worth family foundation to distribute funds annually to international climate nonprofits with greater speed, accountability, and strategic alignment.
Teaching & Facilitation
My pedagogy is rooted at the intersection of cultural anthropology, organizational psychology, and political ecology — disciplines that share a conviction that systems cannot be understood in isolation from the people, power structures, and environments that shape them.
Coming from training in the liberal arts, I design and lead discussion-based seminars rather than lectures. The goal is not transmission of content but activation of thinking — empowering participants to challenge assumptions, interrogate the status quo, and arrive authentically to address complex problems.
A consistent thread across my courses is an expanded definition of stakeholders. Communities, ecosystems, and future generations are not externalities to be managed — they are parties with legitimate claims to power, decision-making, and value.
Intellectual Touchstones
Brené Brown (vulnerability and leadership) · Adam Grant (organizational psychology) · Alison Taylor (business ethics) · Kate Raworth (Doughnut Economics) · Robin Wall Kimmerer (ecology and indigenous wisdom) · James C. Scott (political ecology) · Jan Gehl (human-scale design) · Andreas Rasche (EU policy and sustainability standards)
A week-long intensive graduate course examining how teams form, function, and fail — and what leaders can do about it. Grounded in organizational behavior research, the course moves from individual psychology to group dynamics to organizational design. Topics include psychological safety, cognitive bias, cross-cultural team management, leadership styles, and the team-of-teams model.
A graduate course for students entering business leadership roles, focusing on sustainability as competitive strategy rather than compliance. Connects theory — Kotter's change management, systems thinking, the business case vs. paradox of sustainability — with practice through case studies including Nike's sustainability evolution and Olympic sustainability planning. Topics span circular economy, sustainable business models, stakeholder mapping, and ESG policy (CSRD, CSDDD, GRI, SASB).
A guest lecture connecting social value theory to live policy frameworks for public policy students. Frames social value as a strategic and commercial lever — not a compliance exercise — with implications for policy, procurement, and organizational strategy. Topics include the UK Social Value Act, Procurement Act 2023, the UK Five Missions, and credible social value measurement through real estate case studies.
Credentials
Six years culminating as Chief Social Impact Officer at a purpose-driven SaaS platform — directing global strategy, product, and a network of 140+ nonprofit partners across all 17 UN SDGs.
Master of Urban Planning, USC Sol Price School of Public Policy; B.A. Cultural Anthropology & Sociology, University of Puget Sound. Currently completing certifications in Systems Innovation and Sustainable Product Development.
APA-Los Angeles 2017 Award for Excellence in Economic Development. Track record of both winning and distributing five and six-figure grants from public agencies, corporate foundations, and private philanthropy.
U.S. native based in Grenoble, France. Active client engagements spanning the UK, EU, and USA — with fluency across regulatory environments and business cultures on both sides of the Atlantic.
Let's Work Together
Whether you're navigating a sustainability challenge, scaling an organizational change, or building a partnership strategy — let's explore whether we're a fit. I typically respond within 48 hours.
