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Getting to Know Our Consultants: Olliette Murry-Drobot

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

MA in Applied Anthropology MBA focused on organizational change and leadership Standards for Excellence Licensed Consultant Dare to Lead Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Principles and Techniques in Fundraising Tell us a success story about your work with a nonprofit in Memphis. Lots of personality and energy for weeks.

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Living Beyond the Constructs: A Conversation with Cyndi Suarez and Marcus Walton

NonProfit Quarterly

There were people of color representing a variety of ethnic and cultural backgrounds—from South Asian to African American. When I came on board, people were looking backward and feeling the effects of exposure to persistent disruptive forces of organizational change. These were the dynamics playing out. MW: Neglect.

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Paving a Better Way: What’s Driving Progressive Organizations Apart and How to Win by Coming Together

NonProfit Quarterly

Core Concepts for Mutual Understanding In this period of widespread turmoil, consultants, coaches, and capacity builders must help organizations build a nuanced understanding of what is going on, identify bright spots, gaps, and missteps, and craft and sequence actions to stabilize and evolve organizational dynamics.

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The Challenge to Power

NonProfit Quarterly

Structural racism “identifies dimensions of our history and culture that have allowed privileges associated with ‘whiteness’ and disadvantages associated with ‘color’ to endure and adapt over time.” Every bit of energy is required for that purpose—because when it is all said and done, that alone is the ultimate accountability measure.