Executive Strategy & Advisory

Where Vision
Meets Meaningful
Action

Some leaders arrive at a moment where good advice isn’t enough. They need a strategic partner who has built, led, and transformed organizations across sectors, borders, and disciplines — and who knows how to move from clarity to results.

Built for leaders who need
more than good advice.

Avant Grand clients don’t come for a report. They come because they are at an inflection point — and they need a strategic partner who has sat in the chair, led through the hard moments, and delivered outcomes that last.

Two Decades Executive & advisory leadership
4 Continents Clients & partnerships
3 Sectors Nonprofit, private, & entrepreneurial
1 Patent Founder & co-owner, sustainable knitwear innovation

Strategic Planning & Institutional Positioning

From vision clarity to multi-year roadmaps, Amanda works with executive leaders to identify where an organization truly stands, where it needs to go, and exactly how to get there — with the discipline to execute and the experience to know what will break under pressure.

Fundraising Architecture & Revenue Growth

Not fundraising tips — fundraising transformation. Amanda has designed and led campaigns, cultivated UHNW and HNW donor portfolios, built corporate and foundation pipelines, and delivered the diversified revenue models that sustain organizations long after the engagement ends.

Governance, Leadership & Organizational Culture

Boards that govern rather than rubber-stamp. Executive teams built for accountability. Succession frameworks, leadership searches, and onboarding design that protect institutional continuity. Amanda brings the global acumen to navigate complex, cross-cultural environments — and the cultural intelligence to build organizations where people and mission thrive together.

Program Development & Entrepreneurial Ventures

Amanda has designed programs adopted into national curricula, co-founded a patented sustainable apparel company, and guided mission-driven startups through capital structuring, product development, and commercialization. She understands what it takes to build something from the ground up — and to make it last.

Who we work with
Nonprofit Executives & Boards Philanthropists & Family Foundations Mission-Driven Entrepreneurs International Organizations Founders & Small Business Owners
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Four disciplines.
One unified vision.

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Strategic Planning

Roadmaps built around your mission — not generic frameworks. We identify your real position, your real opportunities, and chart a course for sustainable growth.

02

Fundraising & Revenue

From transformative donor relationships to diversified revenue models — for nonprofits who want to strengthen their foundation and organizations ready to scale.

03

Organizational Leadership

Boards, governance, executive teams. We build the structures that allow leadership to lead — and the culture that keeps great people in the room.

04

Programmatic Development

Your programs are your proof of concept. We refine, scale, and align them with your mission, funding model, and the communities you serve.

The qualities that define our work

Rare Strategic Range

Amanda operates with equal fluency in the boardroom, in community, and across cultures. Her experience spans sectors, borders, and disciplines in ways that most advisors simply cannot match.

Global Network, Local Depth

Relationships with policymakers, diplomats, top philanthropists, and cultural leaders — combined with a deep understanding of how communities actually work from the inside out.

Proven at Transformation

Not incremental improvement — actual transformation. Record-breaking fundraising campaigns, organizations placed on the map, a startup guided to a patent. Results define the work.

Driven by Conviction

Amanda brings unwavering commitment and strategic clarity to every engagement — a directness and depth of purpose that executives, and the organizations they lead, can feel.

The organizations I work with don’t want a consultant. They want someone who has been in the room, made the hard calls, and delivered — at scale, across sectors, and across the world.
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Amanda Sherlip Founder, Avant Grand Consulting

Ready to do something extraordinary?

Whether you're a nonprofit navigating a pivotal moment, a philanthropist seeking greater impact, or an entrepreneur building something that matters — Avant Grand is the partner built for this.

Expert Strategist Executive Advisor Executive Director Patent Holder Global Leader Columbia University M.S.
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