We step in during moments of change, keeping impactful, mission-driven work moving forward.
Fractional Embedded Leadership
Services We Offer
Whether you're clarifying your strategic direction, navigating a period of transition, or trying to connect bold ideas to day-to-day execution, we meet you where you are. DKC Consulting provides tailored, equity-centered support designed to strengthen your organization’s clarity, capacity, and connection to purpose. Our services are grounded in strategic rigor, human-centered design, and deep cross-sector experience:
We facilitate collaborative planning processes that move into clear, actionable and achievable roadmaps.
Strategic Planning & Implementation
We design and facilitate engaging sessions that surface the right decisions and foster alignment.
strategic facilitation
We provide thought partnership to leaders navigating complexity, uncertainty, or growth.
Leadership Coaching & Advisory
We strengthen internal infrastructure—from clarifying roles and refreshing bylaws to facilitating leadership.
Governance & Organizational Health Strategy
Ready to move from vision to execution — needing clarity on strategic direction and a path to translate big goals into day-to-day action.
Problems We Help Solve
Nonprofit and philanthropic leaders today face complex challenges: rapidly shifting political, economic, and social contexts; rising community needs; and the need to collaborate across sectors to address systemic issues—all while being asked to deliver bold results with limited resources.
At DKC Consulting, we help teams move from vision to execution. Our strategic and operational support enables organizations to align stakeholders, build momentum, and turn
mission-driven ideas into lasting impact.
Navigating cross-sector complexity — working across funders, practitioners, program teams, and communities, and needing a bridge for alignment.
Leading through change — managing growth, turnover, or team misalignment while staying focused on impact and momentum.
Preparing for high-stakes moments — board meetings, retreats, or public launches that must deliver immediate results and drive longer-term strategic impact.
We work with leaders and teams who may be:
Navigating Complexity with Care
Bridging Vision & Execution
We support teams in embedding equity into every stage of their work—amplifying community voice, honoring lived experience, and building inclusive, accessible strategies.
Centering Community Voice & Lived Experience
Bridging Vision & Execution
We help organizations move from strategy to action with clarity—turning bold ideas into realistic roadmaps, tools, and routines that drive progress.
Navigating Complexity with Care
Centering Community Voice & Lived Experience
Navigating Complexity with Care
Bridging Vision & Execution
We thrive in complex, cross-sector environments—translating between systems, surfacing alignment, and helping diverse stakeholders work together with focus and trust.
Centering Community Voice & Lived Experience
A Look into Our Approach
Darnell Cadette is a strategist, builder, and operator with a deep commitment to advancing economic mobility and building a more inclusive economy. He brings over 15 years of experience in project, program, and people management across the nonprofit, philanthropic, and private sectors.
Darnell’s work lives at the intersection of strategy, implementation, and equity. He partners with mission-driven organizations to design and operationalize bold, community-rooted solutions—particularly those grounded in the leadership and experiences of historically marginalized communities. His portfolio spans K–12 education, youth development, housing and homelessness, workforce development, and emergency response, with a consistent throughline of centering community voice and driving cross-sector collaboration.
Meet Darnell K. Cadette
(he/him)
our partners
President and CEO
CareerRise
john helton
"Darnell has been an invaluable partner to CareerRise, helping us create spaces where our board and stakeholders can move from big ideas to concrete strategies. His facilitation style brings clarity and focus, while also encouraging authentic dialogue and collaboration, and even more valuable is his ability to synthesize and articulate a breadth of ideas into a clearly articulated parth forward. During our retreat, he balanced flexibility with structure—navigating changing demands on the agenda seamlessly while still guiding us toward our goals. His insights throughout the planning process added real depth, and his steady support kept the group focused and engaged. Thanks to his care, professionalism, and thoughtful approach, the retreat was both productive and clarifying, leaving board members aligned and activated around long-term sustainability."
"Working with Darnell was a seamless experience from start to finish. From modernizing and clarifying our organizational bylaws to guiding the design and facilitation of our annual board retreat, he consistently helps us balance thoughtful discussion with clear decision-making. Darnell has been a trusted partner to the Airport District, and I’d recommend him to any organization looking for a strategic partner and a skilled and thoughtful facilitator."
President
ATL Airport District Convention & Visitors Bureau
mercedes miller
"Partnering with Darnell to design our three-year strategic plan has been transformative for Westside Works. He skillfully engaged and incorporated the perspectives of diverse stakeholders, ensuring our strategy reflects the voices, and meets the needs, of the community we serve. He helped us move from big-sky visioning to a clear, actionable, and operational plan, and continues to walk alongside us through progress monitoring and strategic pivots. Thanks to his guidance, we’ve been able to stay nimble and responsive in a rapidly changing ecosystem while keeping our long-term goals in sight."
Director
Westside Works
Quasandria Curry
