NIMFALAS
Nimfalas is Sindarin for “white shores” — the clarity on the far side of uncertainty.
I work with leaders on the decisions that are hardest to see clearly: what to do, where to invest, what needs to change, and how to make it happen.
- WHERE I FOCUS
- Economic development through food systems and agriculture · Women’s careers and ambition · AI-era ways of working
- HOW I WORK
- A few engagements at a time, led and delivered by me — with in-country analysts where the work demands it, leveraging AI for efficiency. Sprints or standing advisory.
- THE RIGHT FIT
- Decisions, designs, and the hard thinking around them. For large embedded teams or long implementation programs, I’ll tell you early — and point you to who’s better!
PROGRAM & PORTFOLIO
Strategy & Investment Design
What should we do, what should we not do, and why?
- Develop or refresh country and regional strategies
- Build investment cases and portfolio logic — what to fund, in what order, with clear go/no-go gates
- Use AI to compress the evidence work, so the time goes to the actual choices
Impact & Decision Support
Are we having the impact we intended — and what should change?
- Design impact measurement around the decisions it needs to inform
- Scope and help manage external evaluations from the owner’s side
- Turn evidence, reporting, and field signal into clear portfolio choices
Partnerships & Ecosystem Activation
Beyond investment, how do we use voice, influence, and technical support to unlock catalytic impact?
- Align co-funders and partners around one plan they’ll actually resource
- Design convenings and retreats that end in decisions, not readouts
- Help delivery partners sharpen their strategy and operating models
ORGANIZATIONAL
Navigating Change & Operating Models
How do we steer strategy and decision-making through organizational change?
- Redesign how and when decisions get made — operating models, planning cycles, cadences
- Make steering committees work: pre-reads, synthesis, facilitation
- Rethink what a team stops doing once AI takes on the synthesis work
Capability & Ways of Working
How do we build lasting capability inside our own teams?
- Coach senior leaders as a standing thought partner
- Build strategy capability inside teams and grantee institutions
- Teach AI-era ways of working — practiced daily in my own businesses, not pulled from a playbook
Executive Voice & External Engagement
Is our public voice and influence moving what our money cannot?
- Develop public positions worth putting a principal’s name on
- Prepare leaders for the engagements with the most at stake
- Shape institutional thinking into frameworks the field picks up and uses