Aligna’s Strategic Consulting in Action
Making Strategic Change Hold
Aligna’s strategic consulting in action goes cross-sector and deep into complex questions. We are most excited by creative problems that align data with storytelling, and human connection with vision. We couple new ways of thinking with sustainable change. Below, we profile a few examples of our work.
Aligna in Action: Past Projects
Aligna’s strategic consulting work has spanned acting as a fractional executive director or chief strategy officer for nonprofits to creating culturally responsive and disability-grounded conflict resolution frameworks for school systems and producing research studies of workforce transition issues. We have come alongside organizations grappling with a range of critical decisions, including:
- Timing of growth
- Board recruitment strategies
- Employee morale
- Leadership transition
- Fiscal sponsorship
- Organizational development, and
- Governance challenges.
Everything we do is rooted in our Access Wheel. However, we work well beyond disability-focused issues.
Examples of Our Previous Work
Interdisciplinary Learning Resource Creation
Honoring the contributions of disabled people to Washington’s history, we worked with a multi-disciplinary team to craft a K-12 learning resource with student storytelling videos: One Out Of Five Project
Strategic Growth and Leadership Development
Identifying a critical growth opportunity, we assisted a nonprofit client in designing a fundable concept to secure $400,000 of initial grant funding to make its first hire. Now, Aligna is their partner for employee onboarding, leadership development, training, and program creation
Training Aligned with a City’s Strategic Goals
Collaborating with key leadership in DEIB, HR, and City Council, Aligna provided customized training about disability as a diversity and belonging issue
Storytelling as a Tool for Continuous Improvement
Highlighting the wisdom of diverse families across Washington, we worked with a client to design, launch, and produce a family engagement and storytelling podcast (and a toolkit) called “Rooted In WA”
Youth CoDesign
Strengthening OSPI’s Inclusionary Practices Technical Assistance Network, we launched a student codesign group and supported the youth in creating their own inclusion and access resources for distribution
Positive Identity Development
Celebrating inclusive communities, Aligna’s founder Carrie Griffin Basas provided a keynote at Harvard University for Graduating Students with Disabilities