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Sade Dumas

Principal & Founder

Sade Dumas is a strategic connector, facilitator, and program architect with a proven track record of helping organizations reduce harm, build trust, and align on purpose. From grassroots campaigns to national fellowship programs, Sade brings a high-performance mindset, systemic thinking, and soul-deep commitment to justice. She helps mission-driven organizations break through complexity with clarity. Through expert facilitation, strategic problem-solving, and a deep understanding of systems-level impact, she guides clients from uncertainty to action—turning disconnected efforts into cohesive, high-impact strategies.

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The Do Más Manifesto

Why Strategy Alone Will Never Be Enough

This Is What I’m Here to Change.

For too long, institutions have treated strategy like a checkbox. Philanthropy drafts funding priorities disconnected from the communities they claim to serve. Government agencies launch initiatives without trust, without alignment, without soul. Nonprofits (led by brilliant, justice-centered leaders) are handed frameworks that ignore the very culture sustaining them. And when it all falls apart, they blame "poor execution." But I know the truth because I’ve lived it, led through it, and transformed it.

The problem isn’t just strategy.

The problem is misalignment.

The problem is performative planning without cultural integrity, without justice at its core, and without leaders willing to confront what’s real.

I’m not here to write another strategic plan that collects dust. I’m here to create a transformative strategy that ignites alignment to bridge the gap between what institutions say they value and how they actually show up.

It’s time to stop pretending that impact is born from slide decks and spreadsheets. Impact is born when culture, justice, and action move together. Intentionally. Unapologetically.

That’s what I’m here to change.

— Sade Dumas

Principal & Founder, Do Más Consulting