Business development consulting for mission-driven companies and nonprofits
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We partner with your team to refine your corporate outreach strategy and sharpen how you articulate your mission’s business value. By working campaigns alongside your staff, we help institutionalize proactive business development habits that generate steady, high-fit partnership opportunities year-round.
We codify your team’s existing instincts into streamlined, repeatable operating frameworks that free up critical bandwidth. Standardizing your proposal models, sponsorship tiers, and stewardship protocols gives everyone clear tools to negotiate and close multi-year enterprise commitments efficiently.
We evaluate your existing impact network to uncover complementary revenue mechanisms that build on your core funding base. Working shoulder-to-shoulder with leadership, we validate and roll out sustainable earned-income or strategic corporate models designed to build long-term operational resilience.
We evaluate your operations to distinguish where technology genuinely serves your mission versus where human judgment must stay central. Partnering directly with your leadership, we build an ethical implementation roadmap and deploy tailored workflows that enhance your team’s existing capacity safely and deliberately.
Founder and Head of Enterprise Strategy
Jamie has spent more than fifteen years in strategy and program management across the nonprofit, public, and private sectors, including impact work at McDonald’s, Walmart, and USAID, where he worked with leadership to move large institutions from a public commitment to something their teams did every day.
Jamie on LinkedIn
Partner and Head of Client Growth Strategy
Gabby started out as a fifth grade teacher with Teach for America (still the toughest room she’s ever presented to) before moving into B2B sales and professional services, where building pipeline and keeping relationships warm was the whole job. At Asthenos she leads business development strategy and the AI training work.
Gabby on LinkedInIf you are looking for support in growing your impact organization, look no further
Asthenos has been instrumental in helping the social enterprises and B-corps in our network navigate corporate value chains and indirect channels for B2B sales opportunities. Jamie’s laser focused approach, his expertise and vast network are incredibly impressive and what made this a game changing experience is that to top off his elaborate experience, he always approaches each entrepreneur with empathy and provides tailored recommendations based on their needs. His deep commitment to supporting social businesses scale make him stand out in the crowd. Jamie is incredibly dedicated, kind, and results oriented.”
Bita Diomandé · Entrepreneur in Residence, MovingWorlds
We generally start with a gap assessment, so we both understand where your organization stands before anyone decides what to build. From there we work with you to identify the handful of goals worth prioritizing, and the engagement takes its shape from those.
Then we bring our collective expertise to them, including the part most teams find difficult, which is translating your impact story into terms the right audience responds to.
Tell us a little about your organization and what you’re trying to build.
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