About Us

Equilibria Strategies provides strategic consulting for nonprofits rooted in culture, community, and purpose.

We partner with teams to build strategies that are visionary, practical, and built to last, helping you navigate growth, align your team, and move your mission forward with integrity and impact.

Our Story

Equilibria Strategies was created to share the insights gained from over two decades of working inside mission-driven organizations, supporting nonprofits whose work fuels community life, cultural connection, and lasting change.

With a background in leadership, systems, and strategy, often behind the scenes, Equilibria’s founder has helped visionary teams turn bold ideas into measurable momentum. This practice grew from witnessing what’s possible when focus and care are held together, and understanding what so often gets in the way.

Equilibria exists to offer strategy rooted in purpose, shaped in partnership, and built to last.

Our Practice

At Equilibria, we see strategy as a living system, not a static plan. It’s a relational, purpose-driven process that grows alongside your organization and evolves with the complex challenges you face. We begin not with spreadsheets, but with trust, context, and care.

We design to align with your values, not just for outcomes. That means asking the questions that matter now and for the long haul: “What does your community need today and what will it take to stay relevant and resilient over the next decade?” Our frameworks flex with your reality, helping you navigate the immediate while building toward your long-term vision.

Supporting community and culture-rooted nonprofits is not a niche, it’s our calling. These organizations don’t just serve, they sustain memory, belonging, and bold imagination. They’re often on the frontlines of what associations now recognize as “wicked problems," the layered, evolving issues that can’t be solved in a single planning cycle. We walk alongside our clients to co-create a strategy that is thoughtful, adaptable, and built to last.

Our Commitment

Our Commitments

We believe strategy works best when co-created, not prescribed. Our process is collaborative, generative, and rooted in shared wisdom.
We move at the pace of trust. Relationships are the work. We create space for what wants to emerge, rather than forcing answers that aren’t ready.
We are guided by listening, values alignment, and cultural humility. Every engagement is an opportunity to deepen understanding and practice integrity.
We honor lived experience as vital leadership knowledge. Community insight, ancestral memory, and collective resilience shape our approach as much as data ever will.
We choose clarity over complexity. The best strategies are elegant, actionable, and energizing, not overproduced or out of reach.
We believe small can be powerful. Small organizations move culture. We don’t scale them up—we scale up their impact.
We are here for the long game. We’re not just interested in your next big move. We’re invested in your long-term health and evolution.

About Founde & CTP

About Kelli Bohannon
Founder, CEO, and Principal Consultant

Kelli Bohannon is an innovator, strategic facilitator, and trusted advisor who helps mission-driven teams turn complexity into clarity, and vision into results. With over 20 years of experience spanning global health, association management, and civic systems, Kelli is known for her ability to guide organizations through growth, change, and transformation with equal parts structure and heart.

As a senior leader at a global cardiovascular health organization, Kelli directed strategy development and implementation for six of the organization’s 21 professional communities. She built and led initiatives that engaged thousands of clinicians and researchers, turning stakeholder insights into actionable, high-impact programming, from clinical guidelines and national education efforts to multi-year, federally funded research initiatives. Her cross-functional leadership helped shape a cohesive ecosystem of communities where cardiovascular professionals contributed, advanced, and led together.

Kelli further honed her strategic prowess in the insurance and fintech space, where she spearheaded enterprise-wide engagement efforts and led major digital transitions—including CRM implementation and internal systems modernization. Working closely with the CEO, she drove cross-departmental initiatives that strengthened internal infrastructure, elevated member experience, and positioned the organization for long-term growth. She’s a master at aligning people, process, and purpose, whether navigating operational pivots or catalyzing cultural shifts.

Known for her calm confidence, collaborative style, and deep systems thinking, Kelli brings a unique mix of precision and creativity to every engagement. She is an exceptional listener, a natural mediator, and a bridge-builder who excels at guiding diverse stakeholders toward shared understanding and bold, actionable strategies.

Kelli holds a degree in communication with an emphasis in interpersonal, organizational, and intercultural communication, and has completed executive training in public management, strategy, and leadership through Emory University, McKinsey & Company, and the University of Illinois. She is currently pursuing a Master of Public Administration with a focus on governance, equity, and systems-level change.

As the founder of Equilibria Strategies, Kelli partners with small and midsize nonprofits, associations, and civic organizations to bring structure to ambition and momentum to purpose. Her work is grounded in equity, fueled by insight, and designed to help organizations do their most meaningful work—with confidence, clarity, and impact.