At this pivotal moment for our world, a time of reckoning and reimagining — we are called to create a new way forward, together.
Aurora is a collective of leading women consultants who are dedicated to environmental and social impact. We combine our breadth of experience to help coalitions, conveners and communities act together.
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WHO WE ARE
WHAT WE DO
We design and facilitate collaborations for system change. Our strength lies in guiding diverse groups into action, where the real work happens and trust is built in the process.
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WHERE WE FOCUS
We work to transform systems where we see the most promise. We focus where collaboration is essential for change but often obstructed or underresourced.
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WHO WE ARE
Aurora is a collective of leading women consultants who are dedicated to environmental and social impact.
We combine our breadth of experience to help coalitions, conveners and communities act together.
Amina Razvi is the former CEO of the Sustainable Apparel Coalition. She has over 20 years of experience leading sustainability strategy and innovation with Fortune Global 500 companies in the apparel industry. She is known for her ability to coalesce support to drive large-scale systemic change with diverse stakeholders. Amina serves as a Director on both nonprofit and corporate boards. She has expertise in strategic planning, partnerships, governance, climate, ESG, and supply chain.
Anna Adlard is President and Co-Founder of Workshop. She is an experienced strategist and facilitator with 20+ years of experience. Anna works with Fortune 500 companies and global NGOs to build high-functioning coalitions in pursuit of climate action. Anna has expertise in design thinking and system change. She has worked on carbon, circularity, supply chain and sustainable finance initiatives across multiple industries.
Ashley Muse is a curious and insightful systems thinker. She helps purpose-driven organizations and coalitions set ambitions, track impact, and ensure rigor. She combines technical depth with a keen understanding of how to enable effective collaboration and innovation within large complex organizations and diverse networks of practitioners and funders/investors. Ashley’s career includes leadership roles in philanthropic, corporate, and NGO settings.
O’Shannon Burns is a researcher, writer, and consultant with 15+ years of experience shaping mission-driven businesses and embedding regenerative principles into operations with a focus on climate action, conservation, environmental justice, and sustainable travel and tourism. Through her consulting practice, Ochre, she develops engaging experiences, educational programs, and storytelling that deepens social and environmental impact work. O’Shannon is part of Cornell University’s Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise.
Shannon Salentine is a leadership coach, facilitator and consultant with 20+ years of experience. Shannon partners with purpose-driven leaders and organizations to design, facilitate, and evaluate training programs. She offers individual and group coaching programs and also designs experiences to build team connection and culture. Shannon founded Lead for Good to support changemakers at each scale: individuals, teams and organizations.
WHAT WE DO
We believe collaboration is the way forward – but it requires leadership and skill to traverse the complexities of coming together. Aurora’s approach is built on a deep understanding of the mechanics and magic of collaboration.
Landscape Mapping & Research
We draw on our experience across a range of impact areas to surface relevant research and initiatives, and map actors and activities across a full system identifying untapped synergies, unlikely partnerships, intersection points and diverse perspectives to create new constellations.
Funder Coalitions
We create funding partnerships, across both philanthropies and impact investors, to channel resources into the most meaningful intersection points of activation in a system.
Activation Sprints
We design and facilitate activations for diverse collaborators in a system. These timebound activations mobilize partners to take action, building trust and momentum along the way.
Convening Design
We design and facilitate meaningful convenings in service of advancing system-scale change. Convenings are artfully designed to create the connections that enable collaborators to move at the speed of trust.
Capacity Building
We share our methods, practices and tools to help organizations level up on collective action. We design learning experiences that bring the magic of collaboration to life, and develop reports and resources that carry these insights forward.
WHERE WE FOCUS
We work to transform systems where we see the most promise.
We focus where collaboration
is essential for change but often obstructed or underresourced.
Advancing Women-Led Solutions
When women lead, everyone benefits. Evidence shows that environmental, social, and economic outcomes improve when women are resourced and represented in leadership. That’s why Aurora develops initiatives that convene, resource, and activate women leaders, advancing transformative solutions that benefit people, place, and planet.
Recent work includes:
Building networks of women leaders in sectors that are women-powered but not women-led like health, fashion and travel, so that impact strategy is informed by, supports, and funds women’s essential perspectives.
Supporting convenings of women philanthropists to inspire leadership and activate collective impact—directing resources toward greater equality and improved outcomes for women and girls.
Investing in community-led impact
Lasting systems change happens at the local level. Aurora builds place-based networks led by community leaders, local institutions, and land stewards—people who are deeply rooted in their regions and best-positioned to create change. By supporting and connecting this local leadership, we facilitate solutions that are practical, collaborative and built to last.
Recent work includes:
Supporting convenings to build partnerships across NYC-based leaders on regional climate resilience activities.
Supporting pilots in California to activate and model a regenerative economy in practice, with a first focus on attainable housing.