Great to meet you.
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.
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.
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.
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.
