Helping organizations navigate change, mobilize capital, and build what comes next.

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Who We Are

Stokely Consulting helps funders, investors, nonprofits, collaboratives, and mission-driven companies turn ambiguous, high-stakes challenges into clear strategy and decisive action. We are especially useful when the environment is changing faster than the existing playbook—bringing structure to ambiguity, surfacing the choices that matter, and helping leaders move forward with clarity.

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How We Can Help

  • Strategic planning and scenarios

  • Growth and operating models

  • Organizational assessment

  • Transition and restructuring strategy

  • Executive and board decision support

Strategy + Transition

  • Impact strategy, KPIs, and learning

  • Portfolio and impact reporting

  • Responsible AI and data strategy

  • Fractional leadership and special initiatives

Impact + Executive Advisory

  • Capital and funding strategy

  • Funder and investor positioning

  • Strategic partnerships and corporate development

  • Blended and catalytic capital

  • Ecosystem and stakeholder strategy

Capital + Partnership Strategy

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Elizabeth Stokely

Elizabeth Stokely is the Founder and Principal of Stokely Consulting LLC, a Seattle-based strategy and advisory practice. She is a strategy and capital leader with 18+ years of experience spanning philanthropy, impact investing, financial inclusion, consulting, nonprofit leadership, and private-sector operations.

Her work sits at the intersection of capital, strategy, partnerships, and impact. She has mobilized more than $60 million through complex institutional partnerships and advised organizations on capital and partnership strategy, catalytic finance, organizational transformation, impact, and growth.

Previously, Elizabeth led strategic partnerships at Accion, working across financial inclusion, fintech, impact investing, and global partnerships. Most recently, as Executive Director of Global Washington, she led a 150+ organization cross-sector network through significant sector disruption and organizational transformation.

Elizabeth holds an MBA from USC Marshall and a certificate in Inclusive Finance from Harvard Business School Executive Education. She is a Fulbright Scholar, Peace Corps alumna, and fluent Spanish speaker.

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