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The Collective Good is more than a management consulting company.
We’re design thinkers and curators of change.

The Collective Good is more than a consulting firm—we’re design thinkers and co-creators of change.

By connecting the dots and shaping the path forward together, we help organizations make informed decisions, take purposeful action, and harness their unique strengths to create lasting impact.

By connecting the dots and co-creating the path forward, we help organizations make informed decisions, take purposeful action, and leverage their unique strengths within the greater ecosystem to unlock new opportunities for impact.

 Our team members live our values and offer a diversity of skills and experience to every engagement.

We start by listening. By understanding your challenges and opportunities first, we apply Humanized Strategy—grounded in real-world insights—to develop strategies that don’t just work on paper, but in practice.

Our capabilities

We tap into collective intelligence to uncover strategic solutions that are human-centered and community-led. Through our core capabilities, we help organizations navigate complexity, build stronger relationships, and take action that leads to real impact.

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Partnerships & Collective Impact

We help organizations find their place in the broader ecosystem—bridging partnerships that create shared value and drive greater impact together.

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Culture & DEIAB

Culture shapes everything. We use human-centered tools to help organizations assess where they are today and build toward more inclusive, equitable, and thriving workplaces.

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Strategy & Planning

We turn information into insight—helping organizations understand their landscape, sharpen their focus, and craft strategies that translate vision into action.

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Effectiveness & Resilience

Sustainable impact starts with strong foundations. We help organizations assess and refine their structures, processes, and ways of working to improve efficiency and long-term resilience.

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Community Engagement

Change happens with, not to, communities. We guide organizations in building authentic partnerships through listening, learning, and shared decision-making.

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Organizational Purpose

Clarity fuels action. We help organizations articulate their ‘why’—developing shared values and guiding principles that unite staff, stakeholders, and supporters.

Partnerships & Collective Impact

We help organizations determine their place in the wider ecosystem and support them in bridging partnerships that yield mutual value and exponential impact.

Culture & DEIAB

We know “culture eats strategy” and use a variety of human-centered tools to help organizations understand their current culture and build toward more inclusive and equitable workplaces.

Strategy & Planning

We gather information and derive insights about programs, people and the external landscape that inform organizations to craft better theories of change and plans of action.

Effectiveness & Resilience

We conduct organizational diagnostics that enable leaders to redesign structures and processes for operational excellence, efficiency and sustainability.

Community Engagement

We guide organizations to work in true partnership with their communities by creating spaces for listening, learning and shared decision making.

Organizational Purpose

We help organizations get clear on their “why” and develop shared values and guiding principles that staff and supporters can get behind.

Nimble Strategies
When environmental forces are changing landscapes quickly and dramatically, you may need a rapid response. Our solutions provide organizations with ready-to-implement frameworks for immediate impact.
Designed for teams looking to enhance adaptability, strategic thinking, and leadership effectiveness, these offerings deliver proven methodologies without the need for custom development.

Adaptive Strategy for Uncertain Times

In a world of constant disruption, organizations must remain agile without losing sight of their mission. These strategies equip leaders and teams with the tools to anticipate change, pivot with purpose, and lead with resilience.

Flexible Engagement Options: From leadership advisory sessions and team retreat workshops to board strategy intensives and collaborative partner engagements, we offer tailored solutions to meet your organization's unique needs.

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Future-Ready Plans

Develop adaptable strategies for shifting conditions. Use scenario planning to devise strategies for a range of possible futures and have fallback plans ready should the environment change again.

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Pivots with Purpose

Adjust course while maintaining mission integrity. Explore a process for purposeful repositioning, balancing mission integrity with strategic adaptation.

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Humanized Strategy

Lead with care, prevent burnout, and build team resilience. Center the human experience of navigating change, with strategies to engage even when you don't have clear answers, prevent burnout, and build team resilience.

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Success Stories
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Strengthening leadership to bridge the partisan divide

Future Caucus, formerly Millennial Action Project, is a fast-growing organization committed to bridging the partisan divide. Together with The Collective Good, they achieved greater alignment as a team and developed a bold plan to further strengthen public leadership.

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Values-driven and community-led public health

As a public health department, Louisiana Department of Health’s STD/HIV/Hepatitis Program (SHHP) had a goal to engage with constituencies and partners differently, breaking the hierarchy of government, shifting to a shared ownership model.

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A national network aligned in advancing health equity

NASTAD, a national association for HIV/AIDS and hepatitis public health officials, required an impactful strategy to advance their priorities of membership, while centering their commitment to social justice and anti-stigma in public health.

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Advancing racial equity through the power of collective action

Through intensive workshops and facilitated conversations, The Collective Good challenged assumptions, dismantled outdated frameworks, and co-created a roadmap for the future.

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Protecting others by investing in themselves

Discover how AIRA evaluated the correlation between their work, culture, people, and structure to boost performance.

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Eradicating persistent barriers to the full freedom of black americans through Policy

The Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies (The Joint Center) creates ideas to improve the socioeconomic status and civic engagement of Black people in America.

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Unearthing the roots of inclusive culture

Engaged by a Washington, DC think tank to turn their focus inward to explore their culture, we dug deep to uncover the keys to a more inclusive and supportive workplace.

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Reconnecting a community around shared vision and values

The Ausherman Family Foundation, a leader in fostering community growth and philanthropy in Frederick County, called upon us to help engage diverse voices and develop inclusive, community-driven solutions to complex challenges.

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Investing in leaders for a more creative future

 Amid rapid growth, Scratch Foundation turned to us for strategic guidance and leadership development to fuel their mission of empowering kids through creative and confident coding. 

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