You’re here to make a difference in the world.
Lumenance helps you see what’s possible and take action to achieve it.
Lumenance Consulting helps strengthen organizations, teams, and individual leaders. Through our work together, you’ll gain clarity about your purpose and goals, and then you’ll realize them sure-footedly, with greater impact and harmony. You’ll feel heard and understood, supported by an orderly and simple process.
Together, we are weavers: we find the threads of ideas, knowledge, context, and feelings and weave them into a useful, orderly, and beautiful whole.
“Nancy is a brilliant strategic thinker, a highly skilled communicator, and a remarkably effective facilitator. She shines especially in inspiring organizations toward creative, innovative, yet sensible solutions to complex problems.”
-Director of Advancement
Nancy Alexander
Consultant, coach, facilitator
Deep Listener
As a board and executive coach and consultant, I help leaders and teams expand their sense of possibility and to flourish as they fulfill it.
I do this as an MBA with heart and soul, a capacity for questioning intelligently and listening deeply, and wide experience as a corporate and non-profit marketer and strategist, facilitator, coach, consultant, mediator, entrepreneur, grantmaker, angel investor, board member, scholar, and career-changer.
My clients are passionate about making the world better. They’re willing to challenge and replace ingrained patterns, perceptions, and power dynamics with new, constructive habits and mindsets.
They tell me that my work evokes new perspectives that open greater possibilities, inspire them to reach new goals, and help them develop the essential tools to attain them.
Clients have come from:
16+ sectors, including higher education, professional organizations, nonprofits, government, the building industry, foundations, equity/diversity/inclusion, arts and culture, and more.
16 states, DC, and Canada
60+ CEOs/Executive Directors/Deans/Provosts, 40+ boards, 40+ committees and teams, and individual clients
Want to talk about what’s possible?
Ways to Work Together
Organizations, teams, & boards
Organizations benefit from a comprehensive approach to change. Our partnership helps you attain these essentials for success:
• a clear mission, or purpose, and values
• an inspiring future vision
• cohesive strategies and a system for implementing, monitoring, and adapting
• well-designed governance structures and processes
• effective, resilient leaders and teams
• a supportive, inclusive, equitable culture
individuals
Your growth is a process of discovery and practice. We’ll work as partners to help you:
• identify and focus on your business or personal goals
• gain clarity about your purpose, your strengths, and what you value
• design strategies to reach your aspirations and potential
• overcome barriers to moving forward
• develop new approaches and behaviors
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
“It's a joy to work with you. You are helping the organization and me take our next steps in a thoughtful and methodical way. I could not be more proud of the work that led up to this point. We are here in our journey because of your ability to keep us “cats” herded in the right direction. With deep appreciation and respect, thank you!”
UNIVERSITY DEAN
“After years of no conversation under previous leadership, Nancy’s process allowed us to have much-needed and effective conversation that led the way to a new curriculum and strategic plan. It was immediate in its impact.”
operational leader, chief of staff
“I’m so glad that I have been able to rely on Nancy’s listening ear and on-point feedback over the last four years. She combines compassion and a deep understanding of human behavior with brilliant solutions to tough problems. Whether navigating a difficult challenge in my current job or preparing for my next career move, Nancy has demonstrated a unique ability to hone in on what is truly important and help me ‘reframe’ my responses to achieve the best possible outcome.”