Asana Consulting

Who we are plays a big
role in the work we do

Our Story
At the heart of our work is a talent and love for creating communications and marketing strategies, content, practices, and assets that create unprecedented uplift and impact for our clients and their brands.

Our work leverages our unique blend of keen strategic skills, technical and creative expertise, excellent client service, and a love of delivering communications and marketing services and support in a way that empowers each client to authentically and effectively tell their brand’s story like never before.

Nancy Lord started Asana Consulting in 2014, when she saw an opportunity to start a business that leveraged her entrepreneurial spirit and her 20+ years of expertise in communications, policy, and PR gained during her career working with top brands and leading innovators in public health and health care as well as with design agencies, artists, and funders.

Since then, Asana Consulting has worked with a portfolio of inspiring clients on hundreds of projects across industries, sizes, stages, and locations.

Our name is derived from the Sanskrit word asana (“AH-sana”). The practice of asana is coded into our story, going back to our founder Nancy’s first experience stepping onto a yoga mat. Learning the practice of forming and holding physical postures in connection with the breath to promote the union of body, mind, and spirit delivered Nancy a transformative combination of steadying support and uplifting power at a particularly challenging time in her life.

Nancy learned that the principles that guide asana include alignment, flexibility, and intention. She experienced first-hand asana’s multifaceted benefits on and off the mat: a steady and clear sense of purpose; greater mind-body integration, balance, and flow; and a higher level of internal fortitude and adaptability in the face of the myriad conditions and challenges that life presents.

Nancy’s yoga practice continued and expanded, leading her to pursue training as a certified teacher for children and adults. That’s when she began to see connections between the practice of asana and her way of practicing and leading communications and marketing. Nancy integrated the principles and practices she had learned as a yoga practitioner and teacher into Asana Consulting’s foundational business practices and services. Her vision was to deliver steadying support and uplifting power for her clients. Her measures of success included clients reporting new levels of brand harmony, communications flow, clarity in messaging, integration across channels, increased confidence among leaders and their teams and stakeholders to authentically and effectively tell their brands’ stories, and a higher client capacity for steadiness, creativity, and resilience in the face of the challenges and conditions.

Uplifting brand stories is what we love to do
Our Mission

We connect businesses, organizations, thought leaders, authors, and speakers to the power of communications. Our specialty is communications, branding, marketing, and PR services for social impact brands, delivered with equal parts expertise and heart. 

 

 

Our Values

What We Stand For

Love
Here love is an orientation, a mindset, a way of being and working. This business is the love-child of our founder’s professional and personal passions. We believe expressing love is a powerful act of beauty and strength, in business and beyond.
Integrity
We don’t negotiate our integrity or yours, ever. We practice transparency, honesty, dependability, and respect and bring an unwavering dedication to excellent and ethical practices in our business operations and relationships.
Attunement
We are tuned in, listening, thoughtful, connective, relational, aware, attentive. We are attuned what is happening with our clients, our team, our community, and our world. We are known for the excellence and empathy we bring to the work of caring for our clients and their brands and telling their brands' stories.
Inclusion
We are a woman-owned business, and we're powered by a diverse team and client portfolio. Asana Consulting is designed around a core belief that advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion is a winning strategy by every measure that matters. Our community culture is one created for every person who interacts with us to feel accepted, respected, and valued, and empowered to tell us if that's not happening. Our clients share this value with us and practice it in their businesses, too.
Wholeness
We believe people do their best work when they can be their whole selves, express their whole selves, and care for their whole selves. We are a workplace where people experience alignment and balance between their personal and professional lives and practice mutual aid, knowing that our needs will be heard and honored and we're never doing this alone.
Uplift
“Uplift” is the spirit we bring to this work. It is how we measure our success. It is our unique practice that blends Passion + Devotion + All-In-ness. We uplift our clients, their brands and teams, our community, one another, and anyone we have the opportunity to connect to!
Our People

We work with a group of professional freelancers and small businesses with the expertise, skills, and values it takes to create excellent results and a positive client experience.

Nancy Lord
Founder & CEO

Nancy is a comms and marketing strategist and storyteller, branding zealot, and writer. Her career has focused on working at the intersection of communications, strategy, and innovation in the name of health and equity. Before launching Asana Consulting, Nancy worked in health policy and communications and launched and led numerous award-winning projects. She's proudly Baltimore-born and based.

"My favorite part of my job is that it connects me to inspiring and smart people with values, talents, and passions that enrich my life and work. I absolutely love that my clients and colleagues are fellow doers, dreamers, changemakers, and entrepreneurs!

Keiron Bone Dormegnie
Project Manager

Keiron is a project management professional fluent in planning, analysis, and team management. He joined us following his work with Welcoming America (Atlanta), CNET (San Francisco) and others. He loves meeting new people, world-class modern dance, and trying out new restaurants.

"My favorite part of our work is building efficient processes and integrating the wisdom of the team."

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