Illuminating Impact
From Potential to Enduring Change
The context around social impact is dynamic and complex. We believe powerful change making is possible only when strategy, narrative and engagement are woven closely together. If not, even the best intentioned and well resourced efforts risk becoming ineffective and inauthentic.
Through decades of leading, building and advising, we have learned how impact capital strategies and the right storytelling can transform potential into enduring change. We work directly with families, boards and executive teams whose ambition is to define the next generation of positive change for people, communities and the planet.
We founded Helia Advisors because we feel a pressing need to ensure impact in context – and to make the most of the opportunity to work with the philanthropists, investors and changemakers who want to make it so.
We help families, foundations and firms
Strategy and story
Integrate action and narrative for impact.
Braiding strategy and story together makes them stronger than the sum of their parts. Change efforts often falter because they focus on one or the other. We help with both to increase impact.
Navigating crisis
Effective leaders need proven support.
We provide coaching and real-time counsel when trustees, executives and executive teams need clarity, insight and experience to navigate complex operating environments and make hard choices.
Coaching executives
Flashpoints and friction are inevitable.
We work with teams to prepare for and manage these moments so that mission, impact and operations continue, and so organizations and their cultures become more resilient in the aftermath.