Because our world can’t wait.
I help high growth companies (pre and post IPO) build strong corporate social impact programs that create meaningful societal impact and subsequently generate long term business value.
My job is to help you figure out how to make the world better in ways that align with your company’s product and values. We’ll design your impact strategy. We’ll build out programs that use your company’s unique assets to make a positive and profound impact in the community.
Clients include
Strategy & Program Development
FOCUS: Every company has a unique and critical social impact focus which we call your North Star. Together we’ll identify a North Star social impact focus that leverages your company’s unique assets [product, people, profit, influence, and voice] to enable profound impact in the community.
STRATEGY: Once we’ve identified your social impact focus we’ll design a three year strategy to achieve impact. Your strategy will include a mission, vision, and values statement, a three year vision, initiatives and impact metrics to achieve the vision.
PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT: Once your social impact strategy is in place we will design the programs (grantmaking, employee engagement, product sales/donations), design the org chart, and engage cross team (DEIJ, HR, Marketing) collaboration to ensure adequate resourcing to achieve real results.
I am expert at both strategy and execution. I understand every aspect of how to execute effective programs that achieve the vision. I’m especially effective with younger teams where I help flatten the learning curve, accelerate implementation, and develop systems that enable teams to take over my work.
Deliverables often include: Strategy brief, board presentations, annual plans, theory of change, OKRs, program roadmaps
Equitable Grantmaking
I support companies to employ equitable, community centered, and streamlined grantmaking. I can lead end to end grantmaking including everything from Involving proximal community members and employees, designing grantmaking criteria and scoring rubrics, to managing the timeline, cross team collaboration and internal and external comms.
For companies who want to engage their employees in grantmaking, I use a tech driven approach that enables hundreds of employees to participate with ease and I offer employee grantmaking training.
Performance Management
Your team is growing and you want clear goals and objectives that everyone uses weekly, quarterly, and annually. In order for you to build a world-class team I’ll help you and your team develop a set of transparent and measurable performance goals. These will keep your team simultaneously inspired by the vision and clear on what actions to take daily, weekly, and quarterly in order to “win”. We will build these new or use your company’s model (OKR, KPI, OMG, etc.).
Deliverables often include:
Quarterly and annual OKR plan and process
Team & leadership training on how to develop and use OKRs
Coaching you and your team to make OKRs a habit
“Niko was indispensable in creating our social impact program. She built our initial strategy and policies, quickly and thoughtfully helped us deploy funds in the midst of the global pandemic, led our advisory board, and trained and engaged hundreds of employees to help with a strategic grant round.”
- Kelly Steckelberg, Chief Financial Officer, Zoom
“I hired Niko as a thought partner. She enhanced my thinking and added emotional power to my ideas. She’s naturally inspirational, so therefore our strategy ended up being more inspired with her help. She’s also rolled up her sleeves and helped us implement many essential elements of our strategy over the last few years.”
- Erin Reilly, Chief Impact Officer, Twilio
Help you build a courageous vision so bold that it inspires epic solutions that create more justice and freedom.
Help you activate your employees to become agents of positive and massive change.
Help your company use its product, profit, voice, and influence to make the world better.
I’ve founded and led a global nonprofit, built corporate social responsibility programs for high growth tech, led P&L, strategy, team, brand, marketing and social media presence.
I grew my first venture, Girls For A Change, from my kitchen table to serve 20,000 girls globally and raised many millions in growth capital from companies like yours. I have a TEDx watched by over 1 million, was a diplomatic speaker for the US State Department, was named by The Silicon Valley Business Journal as a “40 Under 40” social innovator, and named by NPR as a Community Hero.
When I’m not working with brilliant leaders, I’m surfing in socal with my husband and son or running to the best beat I can get my hands on.
