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Organizational health
in service of
human flourishing.

Joyedele Consulting is an organizational health advisory firm. We help mission-driven nonprofits, B Corps, and social enterprises bring strategy, operations, and culture into alignment, so they can scale their impact without burning out their teams. Our clients are organizations accountable to the communities they serve: those navigating growth, leadership transition, or the quiet erosion that happens when strategy and culture stop pointing in the same direction.

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Judy Oyedele, MSOD, ACC

Founder & CEO

A Note From Our Founder

The people doing this work are exceptional. The systems they operate in often aren't.

I built this firm because I believe that people committed to advancing human flourishing deserve organizations that can fully support that work. The dedication is almost never the problem. What gets in the way is the space between. The misalignment of strategy, operations, and culture that quietly drains energy, clouds direction, and makes the work harder than it needs
to be.

We built Joyedele Consulting to close that gap, and to help the
organizations doing the most important work in our communities
do it with more ease, more clarity, and more momentum.

Joyedele

pronounced: JOY-uh-deli

Joyedele isn't a mashup of a first and last name. It was a nickname earned while working on one of the most effective, high-impact teams of my career. A team that proved it's possible to live the values of what you're trying to create in the world, even when the systems around you are still imperfect. Being it while you build it isn't easy, but it's the most direct path to the world you're actually working toward.

- Judy Oyedele

Founder & CEO

Judy Oyedele

Judy Oyedele is an organizational health strategist, executive coach, and facilitator with more than 15 years of practice across federal agencies, national nonprofits, professional associations, and purpose-driven for-profits. She is the founder of Joyedele Consulting and the developer of the Be It While You Build It Organizational Health Framework.

Her practice operates at two levels. As a strategist and advisor, she works with organizations to map misalignment across strategy, operations, and culture — and co-design the interventions most likely to make a lasting difference. As an executive coach, she works directly with CEOs and Executive Directors, helping individual leaders build the clarity and internal capacity to lead effectively through complexity and change.

Over her career, Judy has designed and facilitated large-scale organizational interventions for audiences of 100 to 3,000+, led executive coaching engagements across sectors including healthcare, media, community finance, and law, and developed training programs that produced measurable shifts in leader confidence and team effectiveness. She serves as faculty for the ODN Global Competency Series (Efficient Designer) and led the Human Flourishing track at the 2023 ODN International Summit. She is a Fellow at Fielding Graduate University's Institute for Social Innovation, where her research explores organizational health as a strategic capability for social impact organizations.

Thought Leadership

ISI RESEARCH PROJECT

Be It While You Build It: Organizational Health as a Strategic Capability

Ongoing research through the Institute for Social Innovation at Fielding Graduate University, exploring organizational health as a distinct strategic capability for mission-driven organizations.

PODCAST

Transformation Horizon

Co-host. Ranked #5 on FeedSpot's Best Organization Development Podcasts (2025).

PUBLICATIONS & SPEAKING

View full list of publications, articles, and speaking engagements

Press & Speaking (Coming Soon)

Credentials & Affiliations

  • Fellow, Institute for Social Innovation — Fielding Graduate University (2026–27)

  • IAF Endorsed Facilitator — International Association of Facilitators (2024)

  • Faculty, ODN Global Competency Series — Efficient Designer

  • ACC — Associate Certified Coach, International Coaching Federation

  • MSOD — Master of Science, Organization Development, American University

  • Goldman Sachs One Million Black Women: Black in Business — Cohort 8 (2025)

Advisors

Board of Advisors

A select group of advisors who bring strategic perspective, sector expertise, and long-term counsel to the firm's direction and growth.

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Cristina Perrone

MSOD

HR & Talent Advisor

With a 14+ year background in strategic HR leadership, culture transformation, and executive advising, Christina supports founders and senior leaders through critical growth decisions: when to hire, how to structure teams, and how to design roles, compensation, and talent strategies that support both performance and wellbeing. 

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Thomas Showalter 

Former Executive Director, NYEC

Non-Profit Sector Advisor

As a seasoned policy strategist with extensive Capitol Hill experience, Thomas served as Education Policy Advisor for the U.S. Senate HELP Committee and testified before the House Education and the Workforce Committee on youth employment issues. As Executive Director of the National Youth Employment Coalition, he has helped shape federal policy, while building powerful advocacy coalitions.

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John Oyedele

B.S., MBA

Finance & Growth Advisor

With more than 20 years of experience translating complex technology and business challenges into practical, customer-focused solutions, John Oyedele brings an executive lens to the firm's financial health, growth strategy, and operational decision-making. He applies the kind of outside perspective that helps mission-driven businesses grow with clarity and confidence.

The Team

Joyedele Consulting's work is delivered by a roster of independent practitioner partners — each bringing deep expertise in organizational health, leadership development, team effectiveness, and culture change.

Mary Messer
MSOD

Helen Bryant

Brian Schwartz
ACC

Melissa AB Graetz

Marne Maykowskyj
MSOD

Priyanka Vakil

Rabiah Muhammad
PhD, CPCC

Olu Burrell

Our Practitioners

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