elevating leadership. advancing missions.
Afton DeVos partners with nonprofit leaders to build organizations where people flourish and missions advance.
With seventeen years of lived experience scaling nonprofits, she brings the clarity, structure, and coaching that transform reactive teams into resilient ones. Let's build toward your bold vision together.
The Work is Relentless
In the nonprofit world, stretched teams and limited resources can create a culture of burnout where organizations hit the ceiling, good people leave and missions stagnate. Too often, leaders find themselves reacting to what's urgent rather than building a clear plan and organizational structure that sustainable growth requires.
Strengthening an organization and advancing its mission requires more than hard work. It requires clarity on where you are going, a team aligned around how to get there and a trusted partner who has navigated that journey before.
About Afton
Seventeen years of experience leading and scaling nonprofits give Afton a "been there, done that" perspective uncommon among consultants. She combines this experience with skills in facilitation, coaching and navigating conflict to help leaders work through tough barriers and equip their organizations for sustainable growth.
3 Ways to Work Together
Every organization has its strengths and its challenges. Afton comes alongside each client to understand both. She draws from a wide toolkit of frameworks and brings the right approach for where you are and where you want to go.
Nonprofit Strategy & Action Planning
Build and sustain traction on a bold plan your whole organization can get excited about.
Leadership & Team Development
Great leaders never stop growing. Afton partners with those leaders to build the self-awareness and skills that strengthen them and their teams.
Strategic Advisory
Gain access to a trusted thought partner who brings firsthand nonprofit experience and the perspective to help your organization move forward.
WHat clients say
"Afton brings strong confidence rooted in humility, and she has a rare ability to read the room and adapt in the moment. There's no ego, just whatever the team actually needs."
Meg Derrer
Executive Director, Refugee Education Center
"What you notice right away is that she's warm and vibrant, she has deep experience in the nonprofit world, and she's not afraid to go into the hard conversations that most people avoid."
Dr. Ashley Lubbers
Executive Director, In the Image
"Afton helped us build and adopt the operating system that our future - and our mission - demanded. One that created greater clarity and buy-in for our entire team, and enabled us to stay both strategic and proactive amidst change and growth."
Scott Rumpsa
CEO, Community Action House
Insights
Recent posts from my Substack “Taking Heart.”