Strategic Consulting
Complexity is increasing. How is your organization adapting?
We help purpose-driven organizations make sense of complexity, align around a shared direction, and move forward to increase their impact.
In fast-changing environments, it can be difficult to see clearly, decide confidently, and move in sync across the organization.
We partner with you and your teams to clarify what is changing, identify emerging needs and opportunities, and create practical, data-informed paths that connect strategy, people, and execution.
Our inquiry-based, no-nonsense approach helps your organization build shared understanding, make sound strategic choices, and coordinate action across people, priorities, and processes.
Strategic Consulting Services
Move forward together with confidence, wherever you're headed next.
Our consulting engagements are tailored to the realities of your organization and the specific complexity you are navigating.
Whether you are strengthening programs, realigning processes, refining strategy, or responding to changing external conditions, we bring an inquiry-based, systems-oriented approach that helps you make sense of what’s changing, align around what matters most, and move from complexity to coordinated action.
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Develop product and program growth strategies, establish business cases for new pipeline opportunities, and identify frameworks to achieve the desired outcomes.
Identify strategic partners and new business models that align with selected growth opportunities.
Evaluate, enhance, and develop existing services, programs, and products to achieve the desired outcomes.
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Synthesize and integrate organizational data and ecosystem information to support realistic scenario planning and improvement impact.
Review and recommend processes, practices, and technical system enhancements that support desired portfolio outcomes.
Identify growth opportunities and practices to build and manage financial reserves.
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Support and engage everyone, in whatever role, position, or level, to develop and leverage their strategic competencies and execute together.
Expand any team's success through clarity, better decision-making, and stronger partnerships.
Enhance the non-profit’s board capacity to ideate and translate those into actionable paths forward for the teams
Organizations transform when people step up to lead the change. Are you ready to adapt your leadership approach, enhance your team’s engagement, and increase your impact?
The Success We Co-create
When we work together, these are the kinds of results we co-create.
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Partnered with Council of Undergraduate Research (CUR) to reimagine the journal's editorial structure, aligning roles with industry expectations, identifying new metrics-driven practices to assess the publication, and outsourcing editorial office management to reduce operational risks and costs.
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Led a highly focused collaboration with Inovo Group (an innovation consultancy) to complete secondary market research in the medical technology sector. This engagement identified multiple new product expansion opportunities.
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Engaged the American Chemical Society Publications Division and its global association partners to synthesize strategic business needs into a cohesive plan and identified financial models to support the launch of the first global multi-partner, open-access chemistry preprint database.
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Led the digital upgrade of the RNA Society's financial management system, aligned program accounting and budget processes with industry practices, and implemented improved financial management procedures to enhance efficiency. These improvements increased financial transparency, empowered the Board to reduce expenses significantly, and positioned the organization to operate effectively during the COVID emergency.
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Introduced a Reserves Spending Policy to govern the use of Board-designated reserves and partnered with an external investment advisor to update the financial policy to match the stated risk tolerance. These changes established sustainable reserves management processes to support organizational growth.
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Collaborated with the RNA Society President to support the establishment of a fundraising program and secure an anonymous gift. These efforts addressed the Board's strategic desire to diversify its revenue streams and increase capital to support new initiatives.
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Partnered with Wayne State University to create a data integration strategy for student lifecycle management. The resulting data stream allowed the institution to understand the longitudinal impact of doctoral training on students and identify new program opportunities to improve long-term career outcomes.
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Implemented a new faculty development program designed to introduce assistant professors to evidence-based teaching, among other skills. The successful workshop trained over 500 faculty from >180 institutions over 10 years, is self-supporting based on registration fees and operates with only logistical support from the foundation's partner.
Ready to make sense of what’s changing, align around what comes next, and keep moving forward? Let’s start a conversation about where your organization is now and where you want to take it next.
Recent Consulting Clients
“Evelyn is a stand-out as it comes to consulting partners. She worked quickly to get up to speed on our organization, which allowed her to serve as a partner to the staff team. Her approach allowed her to develop a tailored and actionable timeline to assist the organization as we evaluated our scholarly journal and its future. Evelyn worked with the staff and our Executive Board and was able to clearly communicate the action items she was executing with staff and the strategic approach with the board. I look forward to partnering with her again in the future”
— Lindsay Curie, Executive Officer, Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR)