the chess player, not a chess piece
We provide the most granular understanding of your target with the laser-sharp tools to aim for it, from a world-class network of subject matter experts to artificial intelligence solutions. We believe in the integrated approach of disciplines with the expertise of the best in their fields to yield breakthrough impact and place you in your own league - beyond competition.
Mindful Business
Sociopolitical insights for emerging global markets
Strategize & maximize your social impact
Your values + communities
We analyze and deliver strategy for the mindful engagement of communities, meeting them where they are and bringing your social goals home with your values at the forefront.
We speak the language of social impact and are fluent in the words that matter, directly from the communities that matter - for the actions that matter to you.
Strategic Partnerships
Our network is our net worth. And we share it with you.
We leverage the power of who we know AND what they know - with your values and needs in mind. We tap the right luminaries for your goals and craft strategies incorporating neuroscience-driven insights, psychological segmentation, robot inventors, and seasoned political experts.
Who will you get to know?
Globalized Communications.
Local Flavors
Cozy conversations with communities, cosmopolitan reach to the most sophisticated audiences, or heightened engagement of your followers? When it comes to the languages of communication tones and rapports, we are the Rosetta Stone of them.
Drawing upon experiences ranging from entertainment to corporate, non-profit, and public policy communications, we master the Hollywood Hills to Capitol Hill. Let us find the words that connect, not alienate.
Impact Business Coaching
Through business coaching, a company or business team achieves greater clarity, focus, and results.
Adding on an impact dimension, human-centered design principles are thoughtfully applied to the unique needs and size of your business to improve your team's performance, increase the company's bottom line, and balance it with making a difference.
We offer unbiased accountability to execute your plan, learn from outcomes, revise it, and take further action - all while maintaining individual and systemic balance.
Meet our founder
Business not-as-usual
Social impact is now the business blueprint. No longer the footnote.
Maria-Luiza Popescu
Founder, Social Impact Executive Consultant
Remember your first disenchantment with business (or non-profit industrial complex)-as-usual and with the lack of a roadmap to 'doing well while doing good'? Remember the bewildered looks you received when you brought up social impact as a business dimension before it became a buzzword? If you're like me, you may have found yourself attempting to explain the concept as the academic discipline was emerging, and finding yourself frustrated at the lack of mainstream validation. But look at us now!
Hi! I'm Maria-Luiza, your tour guide on this intrepid journey. I can't wait to hear about where you are in the treacherous waters, and chart a path to your destination. As for me, I have taken the unchartered path quite a few times myself, and would love to introduce you to the experts fitting your needs who have done the same on multiple dimensions.
As a first-generation immigrant born in the Romanian revolution, my perspective is informed by problem-solving amidst systemic vicissitudes, from traversing a highly turbulent and corruption-riddled educational K-12 system in post-communist Eastern Europe, to modern-day changing tides in American neotribalism amplified through technology. My lens is multicultural and comparative, forged in the fire of uncertainty on every front - political, economic, educational, ripe for revolution; being both academically and practically inclined, I developed an interdisciplinary angle in problem-solving: from sharpening cognitive flexibility through music therapy, to leveraging natural language processing for robust information accessibility across language barriers, dialects, and linguistic abilities.
I bring an academic background in political science and government with a behavioral angle of political and organizational behavior, with past leadership experience at the World Affairs Council of Dallas/Fort Worth, the National Advisory Council of the American Association of University Women, the U.S. Department of Education, the Center for Humane Technology, the Clinton Foundation via the Clinton Global Initiative University (CGI U) program, and building the AI thought leadership of LivePerson, Inc.
Let me know below what brings you here, and I will see you at your destination!
