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Turn Vision into Action

Alma Partners is a diverse, multiracial, multigenerational group of 11 experienced consultants and facilitators. Founded in 2020 after 10 years of germination, we are unique in having decades of experience in schools, nonprofits, and movements for social justice.

What We Offer

  • Strategy & Leadership

    At Alma Partners, we believe collaborative leadership and effective governance are the building blocks of thriving schools and nonprofits. Our approach brings decades of experience partnering with Boards and school leaders to develop tailored strategies that support financial stability and organizational growth.

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  • Institutional Learning

    Organizational culture requires ongoing tending. Culture shift takes place through inner work, professional development, policy review, and community input.

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  • Pedagogy & Curriculum

    Organizational culture requires ongoing tending. Culture shift takes place through inner work, professional development, policy review, and community input.

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  • Operational Services

    Alma Partners’ Fractional Director Services deliver expert leadership and tangible results, eliminating the need for a full-time position and saving you tens of thousands of dollars annually.

    Get the expertise and results you need – without the expense you don’t.

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Who We Are

  • Randolph Carter

    Randolph Carter

  • Meggan Gill

    Meggan Gill

  • Keelah Helwig

    Keelah Helwig

  • Vicki Larson

    Vicki Larson

  • Dr. Linda Williams

    Dr. Linda Williams

  • Masumi Hayashi-Smith

    Masumi Hayashi-Smith

  • Renita LiVolsi

    Renita LiVolsi

  • Aiyana Masla

    Aiyana Masla

  • Joaquin Muñoz

    Joaquin Muñoz

  • Heather Scott

    Heather Scott

  • Kenya Strong

    Kenya Strong

Get to know us

  • "Alma Partners helped guide us in creating a dynamic and sustainable strategic plan for our organization. It was an exciting and clarifying process. It is important to have outside expert support for this kind of work. Alma Partners organized our collective thoughts and deepest aspirations into a dynamic, easy-to-follow roadmap. They came, they listened, they shaped our hopes and dreams into a workable plan for today and our immediate future. Thank you, Alma Partners!"

    ANNE BAILEY, BOARD PRESIDENT, TRIFORM CAMPHILL COMMUNITY

  • "I was deeply impressed by the preparation materials and slides [created by Alma Partners] and by the participants’ contributions, and I know that this course will truly improve the quality of not only the WECAN site visits, but also the training programs and the work with children, families, and colleagues in our early childhood movement. What a gift! Thank you!"

    - SUSAN HOWARD, WECAN

  • "We couldn’t have asked for a more supportive and expert team of people to work with our faculty, staff, and parents. Our mentors were warm, generous, incisive, and professional every step of our journey together. We are grateful to continue our work with Alma Partners into the future!"

    ACORN WALDORF SCHOOL

  • "I am delighted to offer my heartfelt appreciation for Alma Partners and their exceptional contribution to our school community. Their expertise in supporting Circle of Seasons in crafting a strategic plan has been nothing short of transformative. From the outset, Alma Partners demonstrated a deep understanding of our school's unique needs and aspirations. They meticulously analyzed our current challenges and opportunities, offering insightful recommendations that were both innovative and practical. Throughout our partnership, Alma Partners exhibited professionalism, integrity, and a genuine commitment to our school's success. I am excited to move into the next phase of developing our Implementation Plan & Year 1 Action Plan with Alma Partners!"

    JOSEPH HUBER, PRINCIPAL & CEO, Circle of Seasons Charter School

  • “The Alma Partners DEIJ Audit provided invaluable insights that have significantly shaped Detroit Waldorf School's ongoing diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice efforts. The audit highlighted areas of success and potential growth for our school, fostering rich conversations among our faculty, staff, and board, helping to inform actionable steps in our current strategic planning and accreditation self-study processes. The audit results will have a lasting impact on our school's culture and are currently being referenced when updating internal documents, speaking with parents and teachers about evolving curriculum and policies, and studying our school's culture through the DEIJ lens.”

    —BEN LINSTROM, SCHOOL ADMINISTRATOR, DETROIT WALDORF SCHOOL

  • "[The facilitators] exude openness and encouragement, but also deep conviction and that helps create a trusting environment for us to learn. Thank you!"

    PEDAGOGICAL STORYTELLING FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD PARTICIPANT

  • “Thank you so much for the work you do! I am a Waldorf graduate, teacher, and now administrator. The work you do and how you do it is inspiring and helps me continue in and believe in the Waldorf movement.”

    CHRISTIANNA RILEY, PEDAGOGICAL LEAD & EARLY CHILDHOOD TEACHER
    BERKSHIRE WALDORF SCHOOL

  • “The staff and faculty at the Waldorf School of Philadelphia has been engaging with the Alma Partners course series, Fulfilling Our Promise: Becoming Inclusive Waldorf Communities. This series of courses has provided us scaffolding for creating a shared language, for goal setting and maintaining dialogue around anti-bias and anti-racism in a deep in meaningful way! Each course provides relevant historical and contemporary content and really encourages us to interrogate ourselves and our community. We are so grateful to you all for your collaboration and strong direction in this work. We will continue to work with the material and know that it will have a profound effect on our community.”

    THE WALDORF SCHOOL OF PHILADELPHIA

  • “Keelah Helwig and Vicki Larson have facilitated several roundtable discussions for Sunbridge Institute’s teacher education students and Collaborative Leadership course participants on the difficult and important subject of racism and oppression in our country. They have led these discussions with both true professionalism and profound empathy, allowing those participating to feel respected and heard. Keelah and Vicki’s commitment to this work and their experience working with Waldorf schools and communities allows them to speak with authenticity and a deep understanding of the crucial conversations we all must be having today. We are very grateful to them both for bringing their expertise to Sunbridge, and we look forward to continue working with them in the future.”

    JESSICA HEFFERNAN ZIEGLER, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, SUNBRIDGE INSTITUTE

  • "It's impressive how organized and thorough Alma Partners and its presenters/facilitators are. The work they bring to schools is imperative."

    JANICE ALVARADO STEWART, FULFILLING OUR PROMISE PARTICIPANT

  • "Not only are you using your time and energy to work toward change for the better, but you're also uplifting and supporting others who strive to do so. It is a rare and profound gift to witness an organization/collection of folks living so fully in service to the greater good."

    -MARIA ALLEN, INDIVIDUAL PARTICIPANT IN ALMA PARTNERS OFFERINGS, ASHEVILLE WALDORF SCHOOL

Our Core Values

  • “Alma” means “soul” in Spanish, and that’s our starting point. We approach uncomfortable, messy, challenging, complex, and vulnerable realities with courage and kindness. We aim to be honest, to be humble, to work from depth and possibility. Our guiding principle is love.

  • We seek to model the world we imagine. With each other, we build connection, demonstrate respect, and practice care. With our work, we continuously review and adapt what we offer and how we offer it. With clients, we support healing and evolution. We do our best to be authentic, responsive, and accountable.

  • We strive to build a world where all people are seen, treated with dignity, and free to express their full selves. Refusing to oversimplify the subtleties of human experience, we recognize and attend to the compounding effects of oppression on the identities of each person and group. We appreciate difference and work to build shared understanding.

  • We express our values in our lives, relationships, and communities. We strive to define and articulate the ideals of diversity, equity, inclusion, belonging, and justice, integrating them into our actions and ways of being. We have been involved in this endeavor for decades and are committed to engaging with this work as a lifelong journey.

  • We are dedicated to having a practical, meaningful impact. We aim to be accessible for a range of budgets and types of organizations, and for people of different abilities and learning styles. We ask for and integrate feedback. Offering resources, building capacity, and sharing a lifelong commitment to our own learning, we begin with self-study and inner work as a necessary foundation for collaboration, community education, and transformation.

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