Management Consultant

Project Overview

Strategy-led consulting engagement focused on growth for an education non-profit. We scoped the problem with stakeholders, mapped the market, and built an evidence-based growth narrative that the client could take to partners and funders. Deliverables included a succinct strategy report, supporting analysis, and an adoption-ready roadmap for the next phases.

What I Worked On

• Stakeholder discovery: distilled goals, constraints, and success criteria; framed testable hypotheses.
• Market/partner scan: competitor mapping, segment sizing, and partnership pathways for schools and agencies.
• Structured recommendations: growth levers, pricing/packaging ideas, pilot design, and risk/mitigation.
• Communication assets: executive storyline, one-pager artifacts, and a simple KPI set for tracking impact.
• Roadmap: phased rollout with proof-points, feedback loops, and resource assumptions for scale-up.

Takeaways

I learned how to turn a broad mission into a practical growth story that leaders can act on. Two habits mattered most: (1) keep the narrative tight—problem, options, trade-offs, decision—and (2) propose a pilotable path (who, what, when, how success is measured) instead of abstract strategy. A second lesson was evidence discipline. When assumptions were fuzzy, we resisted over-engineering the plan and designed small tests with clear proof-points: what signal we expect, how we’ll measure it, and what decision it unlocks. This kept the team moving while reducing risk for stakeholders. Finally, packaging changed outcomes. An executive one-pager + a deeper appendix let different audiences engage at their own altitude. Pairing a lightweight KPI tree with an operating cadence (owners, reviews, course-corrections) made the recommendations feel inevitable rather than aspirational—something a lean non-profit could actually run next week.