Board & Leadership Experts
Everyone needs a coach, an advisor, an outside perspective.
We all need outside wisdom to achieve our best results; a coach to help us see our blindspots and get to the next level. The following trusted individuals have many years of winning board and leadership experience to lean on. If you are a nonprofit consultant and would like to be listed here too, contact us!
Christal M. Cherry, Consultant & Coach
Christal is a nationally recognized nonprofit board consultant and certified leadership coach. With over 25 years in the nonprofit sector, she has supported higher education institutions, human services organizations, and faith based missions. Her career portfolio, as a full time consultant includes the Boys and Girls Club USA, Habitat for Humanity, Dekalb, the Ahmaud Arbery Foundation, the Junior League, YWCA USA, Emory University, United Negro College Fund, Spelman College, Nicholas House, Florida A&M University, and the GA Center for Nonprofits.
In each role, Christal has partnered with CEO's and board chairs and their diverse boards made up of doctors, business professionals, college presidents, ministers and bishops, politicians, corporate CEO's, teachers, civic leaders, consultants, attorneys, stay at home moms, and students.
With passion and a wide breadth of experience, Christal works today with clients to help them mark a clear path to success in board development. Her style is electrifying, inspiring, and energizing.
Sabrina Walker Hernandez, MPA, Consultant & Coach
Sabrina, a consultant and coach, excels in empowering mission-driven businesses, associations and nonprofits, catalyzing revenue growth through impactful relationships. Utilizing the B.U.I.L.D. framework, she specializes in strategic planning, leadership development, board education, and resource optimization, consistently achieving a remarkable 30% revenue increase.
With over 25 years of experience, Sabrina offers dynamic keynote presentations on Transformational Leadership, Effective Communication, and more, delivering actionable strategies for organizational success. As a bestselling author and certified Harvard Business School Nonprofit Management professional, she has a proven track record, including elevating operational revenue from $750K to $2.5M and completing a $12M capital campaign in the third poorest county in the United States. Sabrina's workshops have benefited countless nonprofit and business professionals, reflecting her commitment to driving positive change and excellence.
Austin Hattox, Website Design & Strategy
Austin Hattox is the principal of Pixel Lighthouse, a web design agency that helps nonprofits spark that "aha" moment behind their mission and build their community. He worked as a software developer for over a decade in the for-profit space before deciding to work exclusively with nonprofits seeking to better leverage their website for growth and inspiring action.
Interested in taking your nonprofit's online presence to the next level? Visit Pixel Lighthouse to schedule a free 20-minute strategy session to discuss your organization, your community, and the type of website you need to connect with those you serve.
Terri Allred, Consultant & Coach
Terri Allred is a dynamic and experienced consultant, leadership development expert, and catalyst for team transformation. With a passion for helping nonprofit and business leaders unlock the full potential of their teams, Terri brings a unique blend of skills and expertise to drive impactful change. She loves to help purpose-driven women leaders succeed at work without sacrificing their wellbeing and does so through her Holistic Leadership Academy. Even while she served as Executive Director of 6 nonprofits in three states, Terri always owned and operated a consulting and coaching business. For more than 30 years, she has provided Executive Director/CEO coaching, board training, team development and workplace culture initiatives to hundreds of nonprofit leaders, boards, and teams.
Her work is trauma-sensitive in both theoretical approach and interactions with people and organizations. She brings her extensive experience working in the sexual and domestic violence field to all of her interactions. She uses an asset-based approach respecting and valuing each person’s strengths, competencies, and gifts. She believes in the capacity for healing and resiliency inherent in each person and that growth occurs in relationship. She strives to maintain curiosity in communication to learn, grow, and form deeper relationships. She celebrates the diversity of human experience recognizing that we all come from unique backgrounds, perspectives, and life experiences.
Terri is a certified Spiritual Coach, Enneagram Facilitator, Reiki Master, Restorative Justice Facilitator, Life Coach, and Hypnotherapist. Terri is also a certified Neuro-Linguistic Programming practitioner, Emotional Freedom Technique practitioner, and HeartMath Institute Trauma Certified Practitioner.
Jacob B. Chase, CFRE, PR & Government Relations Consultant
Chase Consulting Solutions is a premier grant consulting and public affairs firm dedicated to empowering organizations with strategic insights to drive impactful change. Upheld by a proven track record of success, we deliver a tailored approach to address the unique funding and public policy concerns of each of our esteemed clients. Our team of public affairs consultants and expert grant writers offer a robust collective experience of more than two centuries, successfully securing more than $1.5 billion in competitive grant funding across various industries, agencies, and practice areas.
With a successful track record spanning nearly every sector, Chase Consulting Solutions is a trusted partner in navigating the evolving government relations and external funding landscapes. We offer a holistic set of services, tailored to clients' specific needs, while uniquely designed to increase the potential for successful policy outcomes and external grant funding.
Stephanie Cory, Consultant
Stephanie is committed to strengthening the nonprofit sector through education and has dedicated her career to the sector since 2003. She served as an executive director as well as held development and program management roles before founding Stephanie Cory Consulting. She has also consulted for a variety of 501(c)(3), 501(c)(4), and 501(c)(6) organizations helping them strengthen governance and work toward sustainability.
Demonstrating her commitment to helping organizations strengthen their governance and employ best practices, Stephanie is a Certified Governance Consultant through BoardSource and a Licensed Consultant through the Standards for Excellence Institute. She has more than 30 years’ cumulative experience as a board member herself for organizations ranging from grassroots with no staff to a multi-million dollar international association. Stephanie authored chapters for the second and third editions of The Handbook of Board Governance published by John Wiley & Sons.