Aspirations.
Realized.
Impact Amplified partners with leaders of mission-driven organizations to unpack complexity, streamline project management, and connect the dots between strategy, management, finance and operations.
When opportunity arises, leaders need to mobilize resources and expertise while managing daily operations. We help by offering skilled planning, an unbiased perspective, candid insights, and expert project management.
What We Do
In the course of engagements,
we bring tools and expertise in:
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Contemplating a new initiative that requires careful strategic and planning?
Impact Amplified helps transform visionary ideas into actionable plans that drive change and impact. We’ll help ensure that your path forward is not just clear but also fortified with strategies that maximize your impact.
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Considering an opportunity that requires careful assessment?
Impact Amplified can evaluate emergent opportunities that require focused attention and an objective assessment of the pro and cons. We can help assess how best to proceed and turn opportunities into tangible successes.
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Facing a special opportunity but lacking the internal capacity to take it on?
Impact Amplified can help bring your new projects to life, ensuring they succeed from start to finish. We specialize in navigating the complexities of special projects, ensuring they surpass expectations.
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Unsure of how to move forward on a critical project or process?
Streamline new or existing processes and operations with expert guidance, making your programs more efficient and effective. We don't just design processes; we facilitate their seamless integration, fostering a culture of continuous improvement.
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Are your plans and intentions clear but not so sure about how to bring them to life?
Turn strategies into reality with precise roadmaps for tangible results. Our commitment doesn't stop at planning; we're partners in executing plans that revolutionize your impact.
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Need to understand the financial implication of a decision and the risk factors to pay attention to?
Navigate your financial future confidently with data-driven insights. Our financial modeling isn’t just crunch numbers onto spreadsheets; we work to illuminate strategic pathways for financial sustainability and risk management.
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On a growth trajectory that requires expanding organizational capacity in the most effective way?
Strengthen your organization's foundation and prepare for sustainable growth. We'll assess and enhance your capacity, ensuring you're well-equipped to scale your programs and weather any mission-related challenges.
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In need of independent facilitation of a team meeting so that everyone can fully participate in the discussions?
Design agendas and activities that energize your team's creativity and collaboration during important gatherings. Our facilitation transforms meetings and retreats into catalysts for innovative thinking and alignment.
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Looking to expand your leadership team’s talents and remove roadblocks to better collaboration and greater impact?
Unlock your leadership team’s potential and lead your mission-driven organization to greater effectiveness. We provide coaching to individuals and/or teams, guiding you on the journey to becoming impactful and inspirational leaders.
How We Work
From concept to implementation, we help you overcome hurdles, realize good intentions and achieve transformative results.
When we’re done,
we put a bow on it.
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We identify your project’s needs and opportunities and develop a clear project plan, timeline and responsibilities. We unpack the complexity in your opportunity, identify priorities and capacity gaps and bring skilled project management to align plans across strategy, management, finance and operations.
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We provide you with honest and tailored advice, using our deep expertise in management, finance, and operations to address client-specific opportunities. Our counsel and services enable you to focus on the right priorities and address obstacles to realize your aspirations.
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We equip you and your team with insights, tools, and project roadmaps that boost your agility and impact. We custom design tools to meet your project needs, we highlight the key components of the project, work priorities and gaps, and we map action steps to your project outcomes. What we don’t deliver is jargon, vague scopes of work, and reports that sit on a shelf.
Meet Impact Amplified
With decades of combined experience, we have collaborated with a variety of mission-driven organizations, including private foundations, non-profits, social enterprises, and impact investors. Learn more about each of us below.
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Dan has been a leader in mission-driven organizations for over 25 years. He’s helped companies manage challenges and adapt to change successfully. His success in tackling issues resides in his ability to see the shared vision of an organization and to map operations on how best to achieve it. Dan's ability to solve complex problems is best displayed by his natural curiosity and a judgment-free approach that’s informed by innovative design thinking. In all of his leadership roles, Dan has been a trusted leader, colleague, supervisor, advisor and mentor.
Dan’s work has held senior operations and finance roles in prominent social change organizations such as Hopelab Foundation, the San Francisco AIDS Foundation, Pangaea Global AIDS Foundation, Mother Jones Magazine and other prominent non-profit entities. In those roles, he operated as a trusted leader to manage supporting functions without a lot of drama and to create novel systems or approaches to improve services and flow across the organization. Dan has been told numerous times that he is a welcome addition to any meeting because he always offers his viewpoint of how best to take an idea to the next level.
Dan is also a certified executive coach who brings an inquiry approach to matters of both professional and personal growth. Similar to his many roles across his career, Dan works with clients to clearly articulate the change they want to achieve and the challenges they see in achieving them. He helps clients identify and evaluate new and alternative approaches in order to meet their aspirations. He offers continued support and joyously acknowledges and celebrates their success.
In addition to being a client cheerleader and ideal problem solver, Dan is a devoted husband, a father to two adult children, an enthusiastic mixologist and an avid traveler.
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Lance has over 25 years of experience in a non-linear career that has placed him in a variety of leadership roles in a similarly wide variety of organizational settings. The common thread, visible perhaps only in hindsight, is helping lead mission-driven organizations through complex opportunities and challenges that touch programs, operations, management, sustainability, culture and strategy. In each case the organizations Lance has helped lead have confronted significant growth opportunities and emerged stronger, more sustainable, and with greater impact.
Among the organizations where Lance has helped lead these efforts is the Kapor Center, the Skoll Foundation, the San Francisco AIDS Foundation, the Pangaea Global AIDS Foundation and the Names Project Foundation. His roles have included the entire ‘C-Suite’ – Chief Financial Officer, Chief Program Officer, Chief Operating Officer, Chief Development Officer, and Chief Executive Officer. It perhaps reflects that he can’t figure out where he belongs, but the end result is a broad and diverse set of experiences that inform a holistic and strategic perspective on organizational development and management.
It is these diverse perspectives that drew Lance to co-found Impact Amplified with the goal of helping mission-driven organizations unravel the complexity inherent in new and potentially transformative opportunities – and help them position themselves for sustainable and larger-scale impact. Lance’s consulting work is grounded in practice and experience more than theory – with the goal of providing practical and actionable help to organizations so they have the internal capacity to move quickly and confidently in executing on their strategy.
When Lance is not at work, he can be found trying his best to prepare Ali and Sam, his twin teenagers, for the complex 21st century life that awaits them, and volunteering for the board of the National AIDS Memorial.
Intentions Realized.
To find out more about our services and how we can help you realize your intentions, please contact us by phone, email, text or use the form to start a conversation.
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Dan@ImpactAmplifiedConsulting.com 415.609.8783
Lance@ImpactAmplifiedConsulting.com 415.309.2386
Impact Amplified LLC
1370 7th Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94122