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 connecting our clients and their brands to communications and marketing strategies, content, and support that create unprecedented brand uplift and mission impact.

At Asana Consulting, we strive to empower our clients to tell their brand’s story their way, and more authentically and effectively than ever before. Brand storytelling empowerment matters– it activates otherwise missing connections between people with voices and stories that contain the power to change and save lives, and channels and audiences that will amplify and invest in them. Asana Consulting delivers the strategies, content, and support that position our clients to cultivate and grow these connections, because we believe wholeheartedly that the world wants to hear our clients’ stories.

Nancy Lord started Asana Consulting in 2014. By then, Nancy had 20+ years of experience in communications, marketing, community engagement, business development and PR for public health and health care organizations, start-ups, nonprofits, and creative agencies. She learned first-hand that social impact businesses and organizations struggled to find marketing partners who truly understood their unique needs and embraced their values. Nancy also knew all too well the high negative costs of not having an aligned and experienced communications and marketing partner on a brand’s team.

When Nancy found herself at an unexpected career crossroads, opted to lean into her lifelong entrepreneurial spirit (which dated back to her first business venture, launched from her low-rider Big Wheel at age 4).  Everything she had learned in her career and education to date–from communications and marketing, branding, social and behavioral health, social innovation, entrepreneurship and business, strengths-based leadership and teams, design thinking, and the power of stories to change herts and minds–became Asana Consulting.

From then until now, Asana Consulting’s mission has been to connect social impact brands, businesses, leaders, and innovators to the power of communications by uplifting their stories, voices, and missions. Our vision is to expand and deepen social and financial equity, health, and prosperity for people and communities–especially those that are systemically disconnected from such opportunities– by activating the power of social impact storytelling.

Since then, Asana Consulting has worked on hundreds of projects with a talented and inspiring community of clients and collaborators. Every day we have the privilege of working alongside people who believe in the transformative power of stories, value excellence in communications and marketing, uphold shared values, and operate from a mutual and unwavering commitment to social equity and justice.

 

Our name is derived from the Sanskrit word asana (“AH-sana”). Asana was coded into our story from the moment our founder took her first step onto a yoga mat in college. At a particularly challenging time in her life, Nancy began to learn the practice of asana. Forming and holding physical postures in connection with the breath became a source of steadying support. Off the mat, she was facing one of the hardest times of her life, painfully disconnected from her voice, her power, and her story. On the yoga mat, she learned ways to carry, and care for, her pain. Breath by breath, posture by posture, tiny adjustment by adjustment, asana brought Nancy home to herself.

The principles that guide asana include alignment, flexibility, and intention. The practice of asana benefits people on and off the mat: a steady and clear sense of purpose; greater mind-body awareness, connection, balance, and flow; and a higher level of internal fortitude and adaptability in the face of the myriad changes and challenges that come with life.

Nancy pursued training as a certified yoga teacher for children, and then adults. That’s when she began to see connections between the principles and practice of asana and her approach to communications and marketing. The principles and practices that Nancy learned as a yoga practitioner and teacher led to what became Asana Consulting, and are intentionally designed into our business practices, services, and brand experience.

Our clients report new levels of brand harmony, communications flow, messaging clarity, multichannel integration, and storytelling confidence after working with us. They learn how to use their voice to authentically and effectively tell their brands’ stories, and gain a higher capacity for steadiness, creativity, and resilience in the face of the challenges and conditions. That’s what the asana part of Asana Consulting is all about.

Uplifting brand stories is what we love to do
Our Mission

Asana Consulting connects social impact brands to the power of communications.  We specialize in communications, branding, and marketing services for businesses, organizations, entrepreneurs, thought leaders, authors, and speakers. And we do it 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!
Who We Are

Asana Consulting is company of one business. That means we use freelancers for in-house financial and administrative functions, and draw from a robust network of talented and experienced creative and technical professionals to support our client work.

Nancy Lord
Founder & CEO

Nancy has been the founder and leader of Asana Consulting since 2014. She 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 equity, health, and prosperity.

"My favorite part of my job is that it connects me to wonderful, smart people with values, talents, and passions that inspire me, teach me, and uplift my life, my work, and the world we all live in. I love my work, and I truly cherish my relationships with this community of clients, collaborators, and colleagues."

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