Dusk; the evening hour when owls take flight and see most clearly.
Owlight Advisory helps associations, nonprofits, and mission-driven organizations move their most important work forward.
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Embedded, Chief of Staff style support for leaders who need projects moved forward and operations steadied, drawing on interim leadership experience across operations, finance, marketing, sales, and product.
Board retreats, strategic planning sessions, and leadership convenings built around the decisions a group needs to make, with careful preparation beforehand and a clear record of decisions and owners afterward.
Clear-eyed strategic counsel for associations and nonprofits, from planning and member engagement to organizational health, informed by years inside mission-driven organizations.
Grey-eyed; owl-eyed. An epithet of Athena.
Athena, goddess of wisdom and counsel, was called glaukopis, the owl-eyed. Her owl sees most clearly at dusk, when the light is low and the path is harder to make out. Owlight Advisory takes its name and its owl from that idea.
Sarah brings a decade of management consulting, Chief of Staff, and operations experience with nonprofits, associations, and mission-driven organizations. She has worked as an embedded senior operator inside client organizations, stepped into interim executive roles, directed client services, and facilitated engagements from board retreats to organizational diagnostics.
She has also worked on the software side of the association world, partnering with associations and nonprofits on the platforms they use to engage their members. She founded Owlight Advisory to offer that combination of facilitation, strategy, and follow-through directly to the organizations that need it.
Sarah's training is in dramaturgy (a BFA from Texas Christian University), which has proven useful preparation for reading a room and giving a difficult conversation its structure.
Professional and trade associations, their boards, and their staff leadership.
Executive directors and boards working through growth, transition, or a new plan.
Leadership teams assessing organizational health and setting priorities.
Founders and executives who need an experienced operator alongside them.
A short note about your organization and what you need is the best place to start.