For For Organizations
A Unique Blend of Strategy, Care, and Ethics.
Advisory for funders, founders, and leaders building youth mental health portfolios — grounded in relational depth and contemplative practice.
The youth mental health field is in a peculiar moment — abundant capital, abundant urgency, and a deepening sense that the dominant theories of change are not enough. The most discerning funders and leaders we work with are quietly asking a different set of questions: what does it mean to fund relationship at scale, to design for repair rather than throughput, to hold complexity without flattening it. We help organizations move into those questions with both conviction and craft.
What this could look like
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Strategic advisory
Long-arc partnership for foundations and organizations navigating complexity, growth, transition, or the design of new initiatives. Quarterly cadence, written strategy memos, on-call counsel between sessions.
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Grantmaking strategy & portfolio design
End-to-end support for funders building youth mental health portfolios: landscape analysis, theory of change, grantee selection criteria, relational grantmaking architecture, and ongoing learning structures.
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Leadership & culture development
Facilitating leaders and teams toward more relational, contemplative, and ethically grounded ways of working. Retreats, executive coaching, and cohort programs for emerging leaders in the field.
"An advisor who understands both the spreadsheet and the soul of the work. Lian has shaped how we design, how we listen, and what we choose to fund."
How we begin
We start with a question, not a deck — and we move at the pace good thinking actually requires.
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A scoping conversation
A 60-minute call to understand the moment your organization is in and the question you're actually trying to answer. We send a short memo afterwards summarizing what we heard.
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A bounded first engagement
Most organizational work begins with a 60–90 day engagement with a clear deliverable — a portfolio strategy, a leadership intensive, a theory of change. Fixed scope, fixed fee.
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Long-term partnership, if it's right
Many engagements evolve into ongoing advisory. Many don't, and that's also a good outcome. We design every first engagement so that you walk away with something you can use either way.
Reach out
Begin with a real conversation.
Tell us about the moment your organization is in. We'll respond personally with whether we're the right fit and what a first engagement could look like.