Strategic advisory for executive leaders and boards driving positive environmental, social, and community impact. Specializing in partnering with nonprofits, foundations, and mission-driven companies during pivotal moments of growth and transformation.
The future you’re creating deserves extraordinary clarity.
Advise
Clarify direction on strategy while understanding the opportunities and risks.
Align
Strengthen alignment and strategic positioning across boards, teams, and partners.
Accelerate
Move from incremental to transformational, systems-level outcomes toward a more sustainable world.
MOMENTS TO ENGAGE
Bringing vision into focus.
Purpose-driven organizations engage Lumina Futures at inflection points — pivotal moments of growth and transformation — when the decisions made today shape what comes next. We work alongside executive leaders, boards, and teams working to create lasting environmental, social, and community impact.
When the moment demands clear thinking and confident action, we serve as a trusted thought partner for organizations launching a new initiative, realigning between strategic planning cycles, clarifying strategic direction and external positioning, navigating an operational or reputational risk, or advancing from planning into implementation.
Our Founder & Principal
Amanda Bielawski, PhD, MBA, is a global sustainability and social impact expert and C-level executive leader known for turning complexity into shared vision, clear direction, and transformative action.
Amanda brings 20+ years of expertise across the United Nations, global think tanks and nonprofits, and Fortune 500 coalitions. Her leadership has contributed to global and regional outcomes across water, nature, climate, human health, education, gender equality, and linked social and economic priorities.
Amanda and her team guide organizations to clarify direction, strengthen alignment, and accelerate action — moving from incremental to transformational impact.
“As a Board Chair, working with Amanda has been extraordinary — defined by deep intellectual rigor, sharp strategic instincts, and a warm, collaborative spirit. Any mission-focused organization fortunate enough to work with her will find an invaluable partner dedicated to achieving transformative, measurable results.”
— Sally Liu, Philanthropist & Board Chair, Pacific InstituteCONSULTING ENGAGEMENTS
Advising & Leadership
Each engagement is tailored specifically to an organization's stage and goals. While working globally, Amanda and her team reserve a limited number of engagements each year to collaborate with partners in the Pacific Northwest, the region she calls home.
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Strategic Clarity Sprint
For mission-driven leaders and boards ready to align.
A focused advisory engagement that turns complexity into shared direction. Through executive interviews, systems thinking, and facilitated sessions, we clarify priorities, align leadership, and deliver a practical roadmap for your next chapter of impact. Our signature first step.
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Strategic Advisory
For leaders who want an ongoing strategic thought partner.
An extension of your leadership
team secured on a retainer. Monthly strategy sessions, on-call advising, and board support. Helping you navigate complexity and strengthen your strategy with consistency over time. -
Fractional Leadership
For organizations that need embedded leadership.
Amanda steps in to lead a critical initiative or function bringing executive presence and cross-sector executive expertise without a full-time hire. Interim Chief Executive, Fractional Chief Strategy Officer, and similar roles.
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Implementation
For organizations ready to turn strategy into action.
Standing up new initiatives and teams, leadership and board retreats, program and budget planning, strategic communications, impact measurement and evaluation, stakeholder engagement, and other functions customized to start implementing your next chapter of impact.
Highlighted Experience Across Sectors
CEO Water Mandate | Alaska Airlines | Pacific Institute | United Nations Global Compact | United Nations Development Programme | Equator Initiative | How Women Lead | Project Drawdown | Water Resilience Coalition | PBS | International Society of Sustainability Professionals
