Hi, I'm Chloé
I help thoughtful people turn big ideas into sustainable, workable systems.
If you’re leading a nonprofit or building a small business or therapy practice, chances are you’re making hard decisions under pressure, with limited resources, competing priorities, and a deep sense of responsibility for the people and mission involved. I know that world intimately.
Before consulting, my career was shaped by years inside small- and mid-sized nonprofits and creative organizations, where I wore many hats and worked closely with executive leadership. Even when I wasn’t the Executive Director myself, I was often a trusted thought partner, someone leaders turned to when things felt unclear, overwhelming, or stuck.
I’ve sat in the room during moments of growth, strain, and crisis, including funding challenges, organizational transitions, COVID-era decision-making, and public-facing issues where the stakes were high and the margin for error was small.
That experience is the foundation of how I work today.
Consulting Grounded in Real-World Experience
My consulting work grew out of years spent inside mission-driven organizations, creative projects, and clinical settings where people were doing meaningful work but quietly drowning in the operational side of it. I continually see the same pattern.
Talented founders, therapists, nonprofit leaders, and small business owners who are deeply good at what they do and exhausted by everything required to keep it going.
Marketing feels confusing. Systems are patched together. Vision has gotten blurry. Growth feels either impossible or unsustainable.
They need clarity, alignment, and someone who can step into the mess with them and help build something that actually fit. That’s the work I do now.
My Background
Like anyone who has spent extended time in the small- to medium-sized nonprofit space, I’ve worn many hats. I spent more than a decade working across nonprofit operations, marketing, communications, and program development, often simultaneously. My work included supporting executive leadership with planning and decision-making, program design and implementation, project management, fundraising and community engagement, volunteer management and training, branding, marketing, and digital strategy, and navigating change with limited budgets and small teams.
Alongside this, I’ve spent the last decade consulting with more than 50 nonprofits and small businesses, including helping launch and shape early-stage ventures from idea to actionable plan.
I also bring a clinical background as a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, which deeply informs how I approach consulting. Years of working with individuals and systems under stress sharpened my ability to assess patterns quickly, understand burnout and resistance, facilitate difficult conversations, and help people move from stuck to forward-moving with clarity and care. I also bring innate clinical understanding to my professional consulting work with other therapists.
I’m based in South Pasadena, California, and work with clients locally and remotely.