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Platypus Advisors is a women-owned consulting firm dedicated to helping communities, nonprofits, and businesses further their social impact journey to create a more equitable, sustainable, and just world. 

Working from a place of integrated impact, we specialize in collaborations across sectors to create and scale solutions that work for all stakeholders. 

This work takes vision, curiosity, and humility partnered with skill, experience, and agility. As practitioners, we work to make complex issues actionable.

Say Hello
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We Believe In:

Putting equity at the heart of everything we do

Ensuring all our work drives fair & inclusive impact

Taking our work seriously, but not ourselves

Staying rigorous while keeping perspective

Continuously evolving and iterating

Learning & improving at every step

Staying close to the work

Understanding challenges and dynamics first hand

Collaborating across sectors

Connecting nonprofits, businesses, and communities for meaningful impact

Our Approach

There is no single, perfect way to do good.

Whether you’re at the very start of considering your social impact initiatives or redesigning an existing one, every project has to begin somewhere. For us, it always starts with the 4D’s.

Learn more about the 4D's
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DISCOVER

Look & Learn

DEPLOY

Implement & Iterate

DREAM

Envision Bold Solutions

DESIGN

Marry Dreams to Reality

Our Expertise

Since 2020, Platypus Advisors has partnered with leading nonprofits, brands, and foundations to design and implement projects that deliver measurable impact. Our agile, global team draws on decades of cross-sector experience giving us a unique perspective on tackling complex, multi-industry challenges. By connecting insights across sectors, we help organizations navigate systemic problems, design strategies that work in practice, and drive lasting change.

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Arts, Culture, & Education

Media & Communications

Social Impact & Governance

Technology, Innovation, & AI Ethics

Climate & Sustainability

Equity, Democracy, & Human Rights

Meet the Team

Platypus Advisors brings together a globally minded team of strategists, systems thinkers, and social impact practitioners with deep experience across philanthropy, government, social enterprise, tech, sustainability, and the creative and cultural sectors. Our collaborators have led initiatives from grassroots to global scale, and bring a shared commitment to equity, resilience, and lasting impact. Together, we blend sharp insight with grounded experience to help purpose-driven organizations navigate complexity and lead meaningful change.

Platypus Global Impact Council

An interdisciplinary network of cross-sector experts, thought partners, and field leaders who expand our collective capacity. They bring deep experience from philanthropy, policy, business, culture, and movement work — offering insight, perspective, and lived experience to strengthen our impact.

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