Signature Solution:
Advocacy & Coalition-Building
THE CHALLENGE: You need solid partners to achieve your goals, but you don’t know where to start; your new Coalition has a vision but needs structure, division of labor, and clear timelines to move from idea to action; your existing Coalition is experiencing tensions, competing interests, or lack of trust.
THE SOLUTION: Get an unbiased assessment of your obstacles and build a framework for taking your partnerships to the next level, including durable structure, prioritized next steps, and reliable methods for assigning tasks and resolving conflict.
BEST FOR: Coalitions or organizations launching bold initiatives requiring buy-in across levels | Groups with resource complexity and collaboration breakdowns | Efforts needing grassroots momentum | Efforts suffering from advocacy fatigue seeking renewed momentum | Cross-functional initiatives requiring unlikely partnerships
WHAT I DO:
Advocacy, Coalition, or Collaboration Startups
Coalition Functional Performance Assessments
Grassroots and Partnership Engagement Strategy Design
Partnership, Collaboration & Advocacy Workshops
Stakeholder Engagement Strategy
High-Stakes Convening Facilitation (15-100+ participants)
Coalition Building Across Competing Interests
MY APPROACH: Be transparent, bold, and strategic about both what’s at stake and what’s needed and co-create in concrete terms how you’ll get to your goal
Advocacy goes beyond social media posts, e-mail campaigns, and skin-deep engagement. Successful organizations and coalitions must build a level of trust that enables an honest accounting of resources, capacity, commitment, and points of negotiation. Efforts win because priorities are clear, strategies are focused, and partners are energized to mobilize their networks—not because they're told to, but because they're genuinely invested in the outcome.
Too many groups rely on loose partnerships that fall apart when things get tough. When partners don’t see themselves in what’s at stake or are only lightly invested in the outcome, efforts falter. When groups aren’t completely candid about what they can and can’t do, expectations and reality are mismatched. I facilitate the honest conversations and co-creation needed for partners to fully invest in the work, with mutual accountability and shared vision. Whether you're building new, expanding existing, or repairing what’s going wrong, I’ll help you move from ambiguity to aligned action with tangible next steps and shared ownership. Our work together will ensure that you’re all pulling in the same direction.
Let’s talk.
Schedule a free 1:1 consultation to talk about your project, needs, and timeline. I’d love to help.