Yancey Consulting is a consulting firm that anchors in systems analysis, cultural interventions, and generational forecasting to advance its mission of transformation toward just, equitable, and thriving societies. 

We are masters of the how, brilliant at uplifting dreams and mapping out how to make them real. We produce viable plans—whether for two years or 50 years—for organizations, individuals, or networks.

Yancey Consulting is a consulting firm that anchors in systems analysis, cultural interventions, and generational forecasting to advance its mission of transformation toward just, equitable, and thriving societies. 

We are masters of the how, brilliant at uplifting dreams and mapping out how to make them real. We produce viable plans—whether for two years or 50 years—for organizations, individuals, or networks.

Yancey Consulting is a consulting firm that anchors in systems analysis, cultural interventions, and generational forecasting to advance its mission of transformation toward just, equitable, and thriving societies. 

We are masters of the how, brilliant at uplifting dreams and mapping out how to make them real. We produce viable plans—whether for two years or 50 years—for organizations, individuals, or networks.

We bring visions to life with strategies that unlock, provoke, and inspire.

We do mission-centered work. 

Our mission is transformation toward just, equitable, and thriving societies.

Our work manifests in myriad ways.

Our mission is transformation toward just, equitable, and thriving societies.

We unlock, provoke, facilitate, and collaboratively re-imagine equitable impacts

WHAT WE DO

Our mission is transformation toward just, equitable, and thriving societies.

We do mission-centered work. 

Our mission is transformation toward just, equitable, and thriving societies.

Our work manifests in myriad ways.
Here are our primary pillars.

Strategic Planning
Eradicating White Supremacy Culture
Ecosystem Weaving
Research and Evaluations
Dauntless Imagination
Leadership Calibration and Bolstering
Framework, Curriculum, and Tools Development
Publishing and productions
  • Dream Planning
  • Eradicating White Supremacy Culture
  • Ecosystem Mapping and Field Analysis
  • Evaluations and Assessments
  • Founder Transitions/Succession Planning
  • Leadership Development
  • Framework, Curriculum, and Tools Development
  • Facilitation/ Thought Partnership

We unlock, provoke, facilitate, and collaboratively imagine equitable impacts local to national.™

We unlock, provoke, facilitate, and collaboratively re-imagine equitable impacts

We focus on five areas.​

Changing
Oppressive
Systems

We work with partners to eliminate oppressive systems. Systems shape the unifying whole of multiple and interlocking beliefs, policies, regulations, practices, and cultural norms. Our work is to illuminate and weaken unjust systems while collaboratively developing alternatives to replace the subjugating practices.

Mitigating
Economic
Disparities

We need more financial resources dedicated to disenfranchised communities. There is too much economic abundance in this world for the level of resource scarcity consistently and historically normalized in Black, Indigenous, and systematically dispossessed communities. We can be better.

Elevating
Visibility
and Truths

We facilitate change by amplifying the voices of those silenced and othered by dominant narratives crafted to dehumanize, diminish, subjugate, or erase.

Stewarding
Sustainable
Environments

We ally with those dedicated to cultivating and protecting the earth and our social environments.

Bolstering
Leaders with
Bold Visions

On occasion, we work with individuals with bold visions and broad spheres of influence, seeking strategy, project management, honesty, and reminders of who they are and what they have the potential to become.
1) Changing Oppressive Systems
We work with partners to eliminate oppressive systems. Systems shape the unifying whole of multiple and interlocking beliefs, policies, regulations, practices, and cultural norms. Our work is to illuminate and weaken unjust systems while collaboratively developing alternatives to replace the subjugating practices.
2) Mitigating Economic Disparities
We need more financial resources dedicated to disenfranchised communities. There is too much economic abundance in this world for the level of resource scarcity consistently and historically normalized in Black, Indigenous, and systematically dispossessed communities. We can be better.
3) Elevating Visibility and Truths
We facilitate change by amplifying the voices of those silenced and othered by dominant narratives crafted to dehumanize, diminish, subjugate, or erase.
4) Stewarding Sustainable Environments
We ally with those dedicated to cultivating and protecting the earth and our social environments.
5) Bolstering Leaders with Bold Visions
On occasion, we work with individuals with bold visions and broad spheres of influence, seeking strategy, project management, honesty, and reminders of who they are and what they have the potential to become.

Active Areas of Work

Gender Justice

Client-partner: Pop Culture Collaborative

Services: Strategy; Facilitation

YC’s Areas of Impact: Changing Oppressive Systems; Elevating Visibility and Truths; Bolstering Leaders With Bold Visions

Criminal Justice

Client-partner: JustLeadershipUSA

Services: Strategy

YC Areas of Impact: Changing Oppressive Systems; Elevating Visibility and Truths; Fostering Sustainable Environments; Bolstering Leaders With Bold Visions

    Equitable Contracts for Creatives

    Client-partners: Ford Foundation and Mellon Foundation

    Services: Strategy; Facilitation; Project Management

    YC Areas of Impact: Changing Oppressive Systems; Mitigating Economic Disparities; Fostering Sustainable Environments

        Immigration Crisis: Narrative Change

        Client-partner: Unbound Philanthropy 

        Services: Strategy; Facilitation

        YC Areas of Impact: Changing Oppressive Systems; Elevating Visibility and Truths

          Economic Inequities in Arts Ecosystems

          Client-partner: New York State Council On The Arts

          Services: Evaluation; Strategy

          YC Areas of Impact: Mitigating Economic Disparities; Elevating Visibility and Truths; Fostering Sustainable Environments

            Placemaking and Legacy Preservation

            Client-partner: Gloria’s (Steinem) Foundation

            Services: Research; Facilitation; Strategy

            YC Areas of Impact: Elevating Visibility and Truths; Bolstering Leaders With Bold Visions

              Visibility of Black and Brown Genius

              Client-partner: Hue Museum

              Services: Facilitation; Evaluation; Report

              YC Areas of Impact: Elevating Visibility and Truths; Fostering Sustainable Environments; Mitigating Economic Disparities

              Structural Inequities

              Client-partner: Multiple

              YC Areas of Impact: Changing Oppressive Systems

              Restorative Justice

              Client-partners: Multiple

              YC Areas of Impact: Changing Oppressive Systems

              We believe in transformation.

              We believe that everyone should be able to live free from systematized biases and structural oppression. We approach this work through a combination of head and heart modalities. Our ultimate goal is to transform how we are with ourselves and others—the “being.”

              Learn more about our philosophy of transformation here.

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              We have layers.

              Lisa Yancey

              President, Founder

              Jolita Crosland

              Senior Strategist and Facilitator

              Mikyta Daugherty, PhD

              Chief Thinker and Organizational Design Engineer

              Qing Viktoria Shaman, PhD

              Master of Stories

              Daniel Wright

              Chief Brand Curator and Ideas Guru

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              Thank you for your interest in Yancey Consulting. As I’m sure you know by now, our mission is transformation toward just, equitable, and thriving societies. If you want to understand more about our work, approach, and theory of change, peruse our Who We Are and Why We Do What We Do pages.

               

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