Do Better By Design.
Systems Design & Strategy Consulting.
I partner with institutions to surface the root issues that prevent leadership from moving collectively and align the work so culture, strategy, and mission reinforce each other in practice.
Creating the conditions and healthy culture where leadership is empowered, outcomes take hold, and the institution moves forward with clarity, integrity, and purpose.
WHY I DO THIS.
What I love most is helping institutions get underneath the work. Leaders are committed. People care deeply. But many still find themselves in the cycle of start–stop, stop–start, wondering why all the effort isn’t moving the institution forward.
In my experience, the issue is almost never intention, it’s the foundation underneath the work.
Think of it like a house. When you’re considering a home, you don’t start with the finishes, you check the foundation.
Are there cracks?
Is anything sloping?
Are the substructures aligned?
If the foundation can’t hold, everything built on top of it will show strain.
Institutions are the same.
The signs show up in culture, leadership, decisions, results, and impact but the source is always underneath.
My work is helping you see what’s happening at the foundation, strengthen the conditions that make the work possible, and move as a unified leadership body. When the foundation is strong, the work moves. People move. The institution moves.
SIGNATURE SERVICES.
Institutional Conditions &
Systems Assessment
Surfacing the foundational conditions that reveal how the work moves, how leadership moves together, and how outcomes align with culture, strategy, and mission.
We identify the systemic conditions that shape how the work moves:
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Misalignment across culture, strategy, and execution
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Forces driving start–stop cycles and stalled momentum
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Conditions limiting coherence, decisions, and collective leadership
This clarity reveals what the institution can truly support and what must be strengthened for the work to advance and hold.
Leadership Alignment &
Strategic Intergration
Strengthening the leadership layer so decisions, priorities, and communication move together in ways that reinforce coherence, clarity, and institution-wide momentum.
We strengthen the leadership layer so the work can move together:
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Clarity and direction across departments and roles
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Decision-making that aligns priorities and movement
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Operating rhythms that reduce reactivity, swirl, and duplication
When leadership aligns, the system aligns and the work finally moves forward together.
Culture, Equity and
Mission in Practice
Designing culture as a lived experience where equity is embedded, people feel seen and supported, and mission becomes action that sustains results over time.
We design culture as a lived experience that advances mission:
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Identity-affirming belonging conditions thas strengthen culture
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Equity embedded in structures that shape outcomes
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Values, policies, and behaviors aligned in practice
This is where culture becomes strategy and where the work becomes sustainable.
PROOF OF CONCEPT.
You don’t have to imagine what this looks like, you’ve seen it in the ways I’ve moved institutions from the inside.
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Leading a college-wide equity transformation that reshaped culture, belonging, and leadership clarity
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Designing and implementing a network-wide institutional strategy anchored to readiness, belonging, and persistence
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Building leaders internally through clarity, safety, coaching, and stretch opportunities
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Redesigning structures, workflows, and decision pathways that created coherence and movement
Every slide, every example, and every outcome reflects what becomes possible when the foundation is strengthened and leadership moves together.
MY APPROACH.
Human-centered
People move the work and people need clarity, safety, and alignment to lead.
Systems-driven
We shape the structures, culture, and strategy that institutions need to function.
Equity-embedded
Equity isn’t an add-on or workshop. It’s the way the system operates.
WHO I SERVE.
● University presidents and vice presidents
● College deans and senior leaders
● School system executives
● Mission-driven CEOs
● Foundations, nonprofits, and public sector leaders
● Teams navigating culture change
● Institutions redesigning for persistence, belonging, and readiness