I work with a small number of clients at any given time, and tend to work across four core areas. I'm always excited to customize services or explore new kinds of collaboration — get in touch if you'd like to learn more about how I work and what I work on.

Strategic advisory & planning

For teams navigating strategic decisions, organizational change, or new partnerships and seeking a thought partner to help assess and understand a new opportunity or change. Services include landscaping and partnership mapping, strategic planning facilitation (retreats and working sessions), and focused executive support (fractional chief of staff).

Program management & implementation

Traditional project and program operations leadership, specializing in standing up new, emergent programs and initiatives — budgeting, planning, cross-functional coordination, and the administrative architecture a new venture needs in its first year. I love helping organizations launch a new initiative, network, or collaborative that needs experienced hands-on leadership from day one.

Strategic communications

Full-spectrum communications support, from strategy and message architecture through hands-on writing, editorial execution, and delivery, with a specialization in narrative change and storytelling for social impact. Expertise in executive communication and thought leadership, editorial strategy, and content production.

Research & impact

I help organizations think about and realize measurement and evaluation projects that can document and share the impact of their work. I can also help organizations find the right evaluation experts to carry out more rigorous evaluation programs.

Experience

I have 10+ years of experience at the intersection of communications, strategy, and operations — translating complex ideas into clear narratives for boards, funders, and the public, and building the systems that help mission-driven organizations move from idea to execution.

At Luminary Labs, I helped launch ambitious open innovation programs for clients including the Bezos Earth Fund, the Siegel Family Endowment, Walton Family Foundation, U.S. Department of Education, and U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. I led research, advocacy, and communications at Funders for LGBTQ Issues, and directed a national storytelling initiative at StoryCorps. You can find more detail on my LinkedIn profile.