Lacking clarity on strategic direction for a new initiative or portfolio
Problems We Help Solve
Today’s nonprofit and philanthropic leaders are navigating complex challenges: growing community needs, evolving equity commitments, cross-sector expectations, and the pressure to deliver bold results with limited resources. Teams often find themselves stuck between vision and execution—unsure how to align stakeholders, translate strategy into action, or move initiatives forward with clarity and care.
Our work is designed to meet this moment. We offer strategic and operational support that helps organizations gain alignment, build momentum, and move equity-centered work from ideas to impact.
Struggling to connect big-picture goals to operationalized, day-to-day execution
Navigating cross-sector complexity and need help translating between stakeholders (e.g., funders and practitioners, or product and community)
Preparing for high-stakes engagements—board meetings, retreats, public launches—and need a thought partner who can design the experience and surface the right decisions
Needing interim program or project management capacity to keep complex, equity-centered initiatives moving forward—especially those advancing economic mobility or systems change
Facing internal misalignment or team challenges during periods of change, growth, or turnover
We work with leaders and teams who may be:
Seeking to center equity and lived experience in their work without losing focus or momentum
We step in during moments of change, keeping equity-centered 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, achievable roadmaps.
Strategic Planning & Implementation
We design and facilitate engaging sessions that surface the right decisions and foster alignment.
Fractional Embedded Leadership
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
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
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President and CEO
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john helton
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Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation
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ATL Airport District Convention & Visitors Bureau
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