Leadership & Organizational Development
Support for leaders navigating change — seeing how priorities connect, weighing what matters over time, and making thoughtful decisions that serve both the organization and the community it answers to.
Leadership Development · Organizational Guidance · Cross-Cultural Relationships
Leadership development and organizational guidance that bring cultural understanding, community priorities, and long-term well-being into the way we plan, collaborate, and grow.
Builder of bridges
Lorna McLeod is an enrolled member of the Upper Skagit Indian Tribe, with Swinomish, Sauk-Suiattle, and Scottish heritage, and a consultant within Redwood Region RISE and its Tribal Table.
She is a NorCal SBDC advisor specializing in pre-venture and early-stage startups: business viability and research, market validation, customer research, business planning and coaching, and workforce reentry.
Her work starts from a simple belief: economic and organizational development grows stronger when it stays connected to culture, education, youth, spiritual well-being, and care for land, air, and water.
Leadership, relationships, and thoughtful approaches to change — tailored to where you are, from first idea to an established business, Tribal council, or Native-led organization.
Support for leaders navigating change — seeing how priorities connect, weighing what matters over time, and making thoughtful decisions that serve both the organization and the community it answers to.
Help for mainstream organizations, businesses, and economic development groups building cultural sensitivity and respectful collaboration with Tribal communities — grounded in listening, trust, and room for each community's own priorities and decision-making processes.
Certified financial coaching for Tribal-led and mainstream organizations alike — one part of organizational health and informed decision-making, alongside grant and loan readiness.
Consultant to the Tribal Table supporting in the vicinity of 33 Tribes and bands across Del Norte, Humboldt, Lake, and Mendocino Counties — supporting them to advance Tribal priorities, ecological knowledge, and the principle that culture is economic development.
Business adviser since 2014, guiding pre-venture founders, new start-ups, and arts-related businesses through launch and growth. She also has experience supporting people reentering the workforce or starting a business, including individuals with developmental, cognitive, or physical disabilities.
As Foundation Manager, developed grant-giving policies that guided more than $700,000 in funding to 60+ organizations across the Americas, Africa, Europe, and Asia.
Author of Make Peace with Money (2018) and The Grant Readiness Workbook (2014), with a new book on money harmony in committed relationships forthcoming.
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