OBSIDIAN EDGE

At Obsidian Edge, coaching, consulting, strategy, and leadership development connects like mycelium, the unseen intelligence in the dark soil, connecting, resourcing, and sustaining individuals and institutions.

We bridge vision, purpose, and execution, supporting leadership grounded in a spirit of abundance and possibility, refined through reflection, and sharpened for change and impact.

Obsidian Edge Core Pillars

  • Group of diverse people standing outdoors with their arms around each other, facing away towards a park with trees and sunlight.

    Rooted

    We take a human-centereddesign, systems thinking, and strategic visioning grounded approach, tailoring our work to cut through towards advancing sustainability, cooperative values, and collective well-being.

  • Group of six people standing in an office, smiling, with a large portrait of a man in a red shirt on the wall behind them, along with framed awards and organization plaques.

    Sharpen

    Like obsidian, we cut to the core to uncover solutions and possibilities. We sharpen finance, systems, fundraising, and organizational capacity while identifying steps to drive impact and lasting change.

  • Multiple hands of diverse people overlapping in a group gesture of unity or teamwork.

    Transformative

    We support individuals and institutions with participatory transformative tools to build leadership, address disruption, align with values, and foster accountability. Through reflection and collaboration, we grow resilience to navigate complexity and achieve lasting impact.

  • Two people smiling, taking a selfie in front of a colorful mural on a tall building, depicting women with cultural and artistic elements.

    Sustainability

    Sustainability is not just about the environment, it’s about building networks of support and investments that sustain and scale, creating clear pathways for individuals and institutions to thrive from design to execution.

Our Services

  • We treat evaluation as ritual. Our assessments are not just metrics, they’re mirrors. We help you measure what matters: alignment, impact, and healing. Through a culturally rooted and data-informed process, we surface equity gaps, movement tensions, and opportunities for transformation. The goal: strategic clarity with soul.

  • Your structure reflects your spirit. Whether building out nonprofit governance (C3/C4), shifting internal culture, business incubation, or evolving leadership flow, we help you root your systems in justice. Designed for mighty teams with lean capacity, we offer tools to elevate collective rhythm, trust, and long-term sustainability.

  • Resource work is spiritual work. We build fundraising strategies rooted in trust, reciprocity, and relationship, not scarcity or survival. We support grant writing, donor communications, and access to aligned networks.

  • Equity isn't a checkbox, it's a living practice. Humanity and human values form a critical ecosystem, much like nature itself. We offer assessments, trainings, and deep structural work to shift how power moves within your organization. We don't just analyze bias; we hold people accountable to it, co-designing cultures where justice is embodied at every level.

  • We coach with care and clarity. Whether you’re an emerging leader, seasoned executive, or team navigating transition, our coaching holds space for complexity. Grounded in somatics, spirit, community organizing, and strategy, we support leaders in moving from performance to purpose.

  • Conflict is sacred when handled with care. We facilitate spaces for healing, restoration, and transformation, not avoidance. Conflict avoidance is not creating harmony or is it step toward our healing journey. Drawing from somatics, African spiritual traditions, and movement wisdom, we support organizations in navigating rupture and returning to right relationship.

  • We design gatherings that feed the soul and sharpen the vision. Whether strategic retreats, trainings, or internal convenings, we create containers rooted in justice, spiritual grounding, and collective clarity. When we gather with intention, we shift what's possible.

Our Impact

75+ Foundations & 75+ NonProfit and Businesses

Partnered with over 175 mission-aligned organizations advancing equity, gender justice, sustainability, climate, housing, and economic justice and social impact

Provided strategic support across the U.S., Ghana, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Barbados, and Brazil, rooted in local leadership, business and global solidarity.

Global Reach

Guided frontline leaders working at the intersections of climate, economic justice, environmental sustainability, housing, social justice, gender justice, food sovereignty, business, cooperative development, and political education.

Intersectional Impact

SELECTED CLIENTS AND PARTNERS

Foundations

Allegany Franciscan Ministries
Amplify Fund
Annie E. Casey Foundation
California Community Foundation
Chicago Community Trust
Chicago Foundation for Women
Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo
Community Foundation of Greater Dubuque
Crossroads Fund
East Bay Community Foundation
Field Foundation
Ford Foundation
Fund for Democratic Communities
Fund for an Inclusive California
Grantmakers for Effective Organizations
Grand Victoria Foundation
Greater Milwaukee Foundation
Greater New Orleans Foundation
Healthy Communities Foundation
Irving Harris Foundation
Knight Foundation
LIFT Fund
Long Island Community Foundation
MacArthur Foundation
Marguerite Casey Foundation
Media Democracy Fund
Minneapolis Foundation
Nathan Cummings Foundation
Neighborhood Funders Group
New York Community Trust
Open Society Foundations
Pierce Family Foundation
Polk Bros. Foundation
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
San Francisco Foundation
Silicon Valley Community Foundation
Surdna Foundation
The California Endowment
The Heinz Endowments
The Joyce Foundation
The Kresge Foundation
The McKnight Foundation
The Solutions Project
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
W.K. Kellogg Foundation
We Raise Foundation
Wieboldt Foundation
Woods Fund Chicago Amalgamated Bank
Beneficial State Foundation

Community-Based Organizations, Labor & Public Sector

Artisan Hub
Asian Pacific Environment Network
Black Professionals in International Affairs
California Air Resources Board
California Environmental Justice Alliance
Center for Social Inclusion
City of Oakland City of Richmond
Civic Well Let’s Be Whole Local Government Commission
Climate Justice Alliance
Communities for a Better Environment
Council of African Youth Advocates (Board Member)
Diasporadical Initiative
EcoAdapt
Global Exchange
Grassroots Global Justice
Indigenous Environmental Network
Marin Clean Energy
National Adaptation Forum
Occidental College
People’s Action
People’s Climate Innovation Center
Rainforest Action Network
Right to the City
Royal African Company (Board Member)
San Francisco Public Utilities Commission
Skylink Agro Solutions Limited (Board Member)
The Urban Institute
United Auto Workers
United Steelworkers
University of California, Berkeley
Urban Habitat
Village of Wisdom
Working Partnerships USA

Our Journey Together

Starts Here.