Greater impact and sustainability with expertly designed strategy services and supports.

erceptist is a firm that believes that having the right strategy, coupled with effective implementation support, enables impact leaders and organizations to amplify their impact and ensure long-term sustainability. Drawing on our expertise in business and nonprofit strategy consulting, along with our human-centered design approach, we partner with impact leaders to develop and execute strategies that drive their organizations towards success and greater impact.
Design Your Strategy

Strategic Design Process

Complex challenges facing organizations require careful strategic analysis at the organizational, programmatic, and operational levels. Our design process facilitates reflection, ideation, and prioritization, resulting in effective strategies that drive impact and sustainability.

Implementation Services

Effective operational systems are crucial to turning strategy into impact. Our tailored approach enables effective execution and helps leaders monitor and course correct along the way, ultimately leading to deeper impact and the desired sustainability.

Strategic Communications

Perceptist empowers social impact leaders to navigate the constantly evolving landscape by developing crucial leadership skills and routines. We offer leadership coaching and change management supports to help leaders navigate the human aspect of the strategy.

An Approach that Works

We design strategy and operations for social impact

At Perceptist, we are a team of design thinkers and life-long learners who are constantly building our knowledge and understanding of strategy research, practices frameworks, and tools. Our engaging is designed to be reflective while going work done.

  • Impact Focused

We value outcomes instead of outputs. We embrace the mission-aligned spirit of those we work with and use lenses, tools, and analyses to ensure and advance equitable outcomes.

  • Co-Designed Process

Our facilitation creates a space for honest reflection and growth within the design process to guide your team through analysis, decision-making, and change. 

  • Effective Frameworks

We have developed tools and frameworks from our experience in the sector to distill information into clear insights and action steps throughout our design process. 

  • Organizational Savvy

We go beyond drafting ambitious strategies and help clients outline realistic, manageable actions for successful implementation of values-driven endeavors.

Experience 0

Over 20years of experience

Cross Sector 0

Clients across for-profit social businesses, non-profit, government, and philanthropy

International 0

Experience in United States and Latin America

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DESIGN YOUR STRATEGY
  • Client Testimonials

We are inspired by our clients!

Teiahsha Bankhead, Ph.D., LCSW
    Teiahsha Bankhead, Ph.D., LCSW

    Executive Director & Chief Executive Officer Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth (RJOY)

    "Perceptist designed a very effective board strategy session. We were able to assess the state of our movement, our roles and come to a consensus about the strategic direction to take the organization."

    Jennifer Hu Corrigio
      Jennifer Hu Corrigio

      Solidaire, Senior Philanthropy Organizer

      "Perceptist brought great expertise and capacity in designing a learning series for our members to drive change in their foundations. They paced the design of the series well, and listened intently to adapt the tools and frameworks to suit our organizational culture and needs.”