Consulting Services
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We step in during moments of change—filling senior leadership gaps, stabilizing teams, managing cross-functional portfolios, and keeping equity-centered work moving forward. This is ideal for organizations navigating staff transitions, growth phases, or new lines of work that require experienced, short-term leadership.
Fractional Embedded Leadership
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We facilitate collaborative, equity-rooted planning processes that move beyond vision statements and into clear, achievable roadmaps. Each engagement is customized to your context, designed to build buy-in, and informed by stakeholder voice.
Strategic Planning & Implementation
Actionable and stakeholder-informed strategic plans
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Whether you’re hosting a board retreat, cross-sector convening, or internal strategy sprint, we design and facilitate engaging sessions that surface the right decisions, foster alignment, and keep your team focused on what matters most.
Strategic Facilitation
Retreats, convenings, and collaborative planning sessions
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We provide thought partnership to leaders navigating complexity, uncertainty, or growth. Through coaching, reflection, and strategic advisement, we help individuals and leadership teams move from reaction to intentional action.
Leadership Coaching & Advisory
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We support organizations in strengthening their internal infrastructure—from clarifying board roles and refreshing bylaws to facilitating leadership transitions or team restructuring. Our approach is practical, people-centered, and aligned with your values.
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
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
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