For progressive leadership teams and justice-oriented organizations
Liberatory Organizational
Consulting
You’ve made commitments. You’ve done trainings. And still, your values don’t reliably show up in decisions, systems, and day-to-day leadership. Our consulting helps you turn equity and shared power into lived culture, so your organization stays steady (and even strengthens) when conflict or pressure hits.
A few of the organizations that have given us their trust.
When values live in statements, but not in operations
You care about justice and belonging, but hiring, decision-making, and operations don’t consistently reflect it.
Culture work becomes reactive, especially when tension, identity conflict, or external pressure rises.
Leaders feel stretched thin, trying to “do it right” without a reliable shared practice for conflict, accountability, and repair.
The organization learns concepts… but still needs a grounded way to translate them into daily leadership and durable systems.
Strategy with soul.
Structure that sustains.
This is consulting for leaders who want a trusted, relational strategist fluent in both justice and organizational design. We blend strategy, coaching, and facilitation to move your organization from aspiration to consistent practice, without pushing past what your people can actually hold.
“Because of the work we did together with April over years, our organization was strong enough to withstand a moment that could have completely flattened us… people stayed. That stability didn’t happen by accident.”
— Abby Levine, Executive Director, JSJR“The content was excellent — but what made the real difference was the hands-on coaching… time to think with April helped us navigate situations we truly could not have handled on our own.”
— Morriah Kaplan, Executive Director, IfNotNow“The structure of the program came at exactly the right time… we knew we wanted to build a multiracial organization — but… it would fail if we didn’t get the internal foundation right first.”
— Davida Ginsberg, Nonprofit Executive & ActivistConsulting Packages:
The Partnership Pathway
Explore our range of services designed to help you move forward with confidence, wherever you're headed next.
For organizations ready to move from “trying” to consistent practice, with leadership buy-in and willingness to build real infrastructure.
Depending on the nature of the consulting services you request, custom consulting packages are often between $10K–$60K. Various consulting packages cost less, and others more, depending on scope/scale. To get a general sense of our equity-aligned, tiered rate structure that we can work with to meet your needs, you can visit our Client Rates page.
We generally work with no more than 4 consulting partnerships each quarter.
Guarantee (mutual respect, clean agreements): At the end of the discovery phase, if you don’t feel aligned with and sufficiently confident about our planned or newly articulated scope of work, you can choose to discontinue our work together with no additional financial obligation beyond the discovery phase.
Core ways we work (examples):
Leadership alignment + operating agreements (values → decision pathways)
Original program and session development
Conflict navigation + repair practices (compassion and accountability)
Preparation & guidance for high-stakes meetings / moments of rupture
Tools you can actually use (dashboards, templates, principles, hiring strategies)
This isn’t more “DEI work.” It’s capacity.
Steadiness under pressure: so leadership doesn’t collapse into urgency or avoidance.
Clarity you can operationalize: shared language, shared tools, shared practice.
Culture that holds: belonging and accountability that become real and adaptable, not performative.
Consulting Package Bonuses:
Executive Alignment Brief: 2–3 pages of insights, clear priorities, recommended next steps and talking points for leaders/boards to facilitate greater clarity and alignment toward the outset.
Conflict & Repair Toolkit: a ready-to-use protocol + prompts to navigate tension and repair without spiraling or shutting down.
Decision Pathways Pack: Customizable templates that bring structure to decision-making, from authority clarity to values alignment to communication protocols.
Features
Paid Discovery Phase: a clean starting point that prevents mis-scoped projects.
Hands-On Coaching for Leaders: real-time support when the stakes are real.
Facilitation + Design: frameworks and resources your org can hold onto.
Whole-System Lens: individual, interpersonal, and institutional transformation together.
Tools & Templates: practices that translate into daily operations.
On-Ramp Step 1: Initial Consult Conversation — Free
Purpose: Understand your context, what’s at stake, and what kind of support would actually help.
Outcome: Clarity on whether this is a fit—and what the next steps should be.
Schedule Your Free Consult & Let’s Explore Working Together!
On-Ramp Step 2: Proposal + Scope (Custom) - If it feels aligned, I’ll draft a proposal outlining: Goals, intended outcomes, scope, deliverables, timeline and cadence, details and scope of discovery phase, and investment and payment schedule
Step 3: Agreement + Start Date - Once the proposal is approved (possibly after one additional complementary session to refine and confirm proposal and agreement), we sign an agreement and officially begin!
This is the 6-12 month consulting partnership—where your values move from intention to reliable practice in leadership, systems, and culture.
Timeframe: 6-12 months
Investment:$10K–$60K+ depending on scope/scale
Capacity: Quarterly intake; limited partnerships for depth and steadiness
What we build together (examples):
Leadership alignment + operating agreements (how decisions actually get made)
Clear roles, responsibilities, and accountability practices
Conflict skill-building + repair frameworks (compassion and accountability)
Systems upgrades (hiring, onboarding, performance, feedback loops)
Practical tools your org can keep using (templates, dashboards, principles)
Outcome: A stronger “trunk”—shared structure, shared language, shared skill—so the culture holds under pressure.
Sometimes it’s not wise to jump straight to a proposal. There are too many moving parts, too many stakeholders, or too much strain in the system.
In those cases, we start with Paid Discovery: a short, structured phase to listen, map patterns, and scope the work before we commit to a larger engagement.
Timeline: ~30 days
Investment: $3K–$6K (creditable toward the engagement if we proceed)
Discovery may include: Stakeholder conversations; Review of key systems/docs (decisions, hiring, comms, norms); Pattern mapping (where equity breaks down—and why); or Sequencing recommendations (what first, what later, what not yet)
Outcome: A right-sized roadmap and scope your organization can actually hold.
Because the work evolves, some teams choose continued support after the initial engagement, so growth is tended over time and progress keeps branching out instead of resetting or stalling.
Timeframe: 1+ years
Investment: $10K–$60K+ depending on scope/scale
What this can look like (depending on the season you’re in):
Consulting and Coaching to support the work as it evolves
Support for aligned staff recruitment so the culture & values deepen in alignment
On-call support for high-pressure moments when steadiness matters most
Periodic trainings to keep conflict, repair, and accountability skills alive
Outcome: A deeper bench of aligned leaders, systems that better reflect your values, and steady advancement toward the larger vision, year after year.
GUARANTEE
At the end of the discovery phase, if you don’t feel aligned with and sufficiently confident about our planned or newly articulated scope of work, you can choose to discontinue our work together with no additional financial obligation beyond the discovery phase.
Fabulously Asked & Answered Questions
Quick answers for the questions people ask (but don’t always email)
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No. Joyous Justice has deep and ongoing experience in Jewish ecosystems, and we also partner with progressive teams more broadly, especially where social justice, equity, repair, belonging, and/or healing are central objectives.
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Sometimes, but it’s not the default. If a single session won’t change the pattern or sufficiently address the issue at hand, we’ll say so, and we’ll recommend an approach that will. Then we can discuss and determine if we can identify a mutually-approved arrangement.
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Suffice it to say: I could—and I hope I will!—record many podcast episodes unpacking what liberatory means to me, honoring the movements and leaders who’ve informed my understanding over the years.
At its core, liberatory consciousness is an awareness of oppression paired with an intentional commitment to change the systems that produce it (Love, 2010), internally within ourselves and externally in our interactions, policies, and institutions.
In short, to be liberatory is to keep strengthening our capacity to act justly and ethically, to reorient, again and again, toward a more humane, connected, and lovingly accountable way of being and leading.It’s not a slogan. It’s a discipline. And it’s one of the most effective, efficient, and courageous methodologies we have for repairing our societies and our world while caring well for ourselves and others.
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Direct, compassionate, and designed for real-world pressure. Like exhaling and then finally getting traction.
I’ll meet you in what’s real, with clarity and care, without reductive compliance-focused frameworks or one-size-fits-all scripts. We’ll right-size expectations, name what matters, and establish plans and frameworks you can, and want to, actually use.
Expect rigor with warmth: clear thinking, courageous truth-telling, and room to be human as we go.
We don’t force urgency, and we don’t stay stuck in talk. We work iteratively: assess, align, pilot, refine—so your social justice values become consistent practice that not only holds, but strengthens and evolves when pressure and conflict arise.
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The work is real, but the aim is relief and traction: clearer priorities boundaries, and expectations, cleaner roles, and fewer reactive, underresourced cycles.
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Start with the quiz (directly above), the 15-Min Leader Reset, or an Exploratory Call w April.
You’ll get one or more practical and encouraging recommendations either way.
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“I felt safe bringing my vulnerabilities into the room… and I never felt judged or rushed.”
—Karla Van Praag, Former Exec Director, JOIN for Justice
Let’s make your values and success livable, together.
If you’re ready to move from commitment to consistent practice, Joyous Justice can help you build the structure, skill, and trust to do it.
Whatever you're building, we're here to help you take the first step with confidence.