Consulting
What’s shaping your organization?
Julia Cuba Lewis consults with for-profit and non-profit executives to address what is needed for their organizations to thrive through any season.
A succession. A strategic decision. A senior team that needs to work differently. A changing relationship between the board and CEO. Growth that is asking something new of the organization. Or an issue that keeps returning without a clear explanation.
We start with the question in front of you.
The question may be clear at the outset. What it asks of the organization may be less so.
The question shapes the engagement.
Some work begins with a CEO and senior team. Some requires the board. Some moves between leadership, governance, strategy, accountability, culture or the way decisions are made.
The work is built around the question, not a predetermined consulting program. It may include listening across the organization, workshops, facilitated conversations, systems or tools.
Senior Teams
Conflict, decision-making, accountability and how the team works together.
CEOs
Leadership impact on the organization.
Direction
Purpose, vision, mission, strategic goals, theory of change, and how impact is measured.
Boards
Governance, roles, authority, expectations and board/executive leadership relationship.
Organizations become different when you know where to listen.
Julia spent 17 years leading and growing an organization and has worked alongside CEOs, senior teams and boards across nonprofits, schools, foundations and businesses since 2014.
She knows organizations from the inside: leadership, governance, power, conflict, accountability, strategy and the decisions that shape them.
That experience informs where she listens, what she asks and what she notices when people describe the same organization differently.
“Julia Cuba Lewis has an exceptional talent for active listening, quickly pinpointing the root causes of complex issues.”
Heather Bendes, Owner, Bendes Consult
“Julia is able to quickly uncover the most important priorities and challenges.”
Chloé LaPorte, Chief Program Officer, Girls Empowerment Network