Strategy · Program Design · Partnerships · Implementation

Turning complex priorities into programs that work.

I provide program strategy and implementation consulting for growing companies and mission-driven organizations. I help teams design programs, build partnerships, and put social impact, sustainability, and responsible growth priorities into practice.

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Consulting services

Meaningful priorities often live between departments.

Whether you are launching an initiative, strengthening partnerships, or organizing social impact and sustainability commitments, I help clarify priorities, establish ownership, and build the plans and operating systems needed to move the work forward.

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Program Strategy & Implementation

For initiatives that need a clear structure, owner, and path forward.

I listen to the people closest to the work, assess the existing landscape, and identify where organizational capabilities can meet real needs. I turn those findings into a program framework, implementation roadmap, and clear responsibilities for delivery.

  • Community and ecosystem listening
  • Strategic assessment and prioritization
  • Program architecture
  • Implementation roadmaps
  • Roles and decision-making structures
  • Budget and resource planning
  • Operating models and playbooks
  • Measurement frameworks
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Partnership Strategy & Development

I help organizations identify, evaluate, and develop partnerships around a shared strategic objective.

From mapping the partner ecosystem to defining roles and coordinating delivery, I build the relationship structures and working practices needed for effective cross-sector collaboration.

  • Partner landscape development
  • Partnership strategy
  • Partner sourcing and evaluation
  • Relationship development
  • Program and partnership structure
  • Cross-sector collaboration
  • Activation planning
  • Partnership stewardship systems
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Social Impact & Sustainability Consulting

I help organizations translate social impact, sustainability, and responsible growth commitments into practical programs.

From workforce development and community investment to sustainability initiatives, I define priorities, coordinate teams and partners, and build the operating structure and measurement approach needed to sustain the work.

  • Social impact strategy
  • Sustainability program development
  • Community investment
  • Workforce development
  • Responsible growth initiatives
  • Community benefit programs
  • Strategic philanthropy
  • Impact measurement
  • Cross-functional implementation

Ways to work together

Bringing structure to ambiguity.

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Selected experience

Building programs from the ground up.

For six years, I built and led social-impact programming for a global consumer brand operating within a complex, highly regulated industry.

Before designing a new initiative, I listened to the people and organizations already doing the work and to members of the communities the program was intended to serve. I used those perspectives to identify the most important unmet need that matched what the company was positioned to contribute.

From that opening, I built programs, partnerships, and operating structures that could move from an idea into sustained implementation. The approach produced initiatives that other organizations and governments sought to adapt.

My experience spans program development, workforce initiatives, investment ecosystems, community organizations, strategic partnerships, and cross-functional implementation.

Amanda Friedman

About Amanda

My background spans social impact, sustainability, program development, partnerships, workforce development, investment ecosystems, and cross-functional implementation.

Across ten years in technology, a global consumer brand, and independent consulting, I have led complex programs from strategy through implementation. That experience includes leading customer implementations at a SaaS startup serving a highly regulated industry, building cross-sector partnerships, and creating the operating structures that turn ambitious ideas into durable initiatives.

I also hold a graduate degree focused on engineering, sustainability, and health, which informs the systems-oriented way I approach complex organizational and societal challenges.

I am particularly drawn to work where the answer is not obvious at the beginning: several interests have to be reconciled, different parties hold pieces of the solution, and someone needs to turn complexity into a practical path forward.

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Have a complicated initiative that needs an owner?

Whether you are defining a new program, reorganizing an existing portfolio, developing partnerships, or trying to move an important initiative from intention into execution, I can help create the structure and momentum to move it forward.

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amanda@axfriedman.com