A Strategic Social Impact Consultancy dedicated to empowering leaders and organizations to navigate change and drive progress toward their deepest purpose
At Tide & Thrive Co., we help leaders, teams, and organizations not just survive but thrive amid change. With a broad background—spanning institutional philanthropy, grassroots advocacy, and corporate inclusion initiatives—we bring decades of experience implementing change, leading teams, and building strategies to scale impact.
Our approach is multicultural, recognizing that diverse local and global perspectives are essential for trust and sustainable solutions, ultimately turning organizational promises into lasting, shared progress.
This is work that AI cannot replicate—where creativity, empathy, and a deep understanding of diverse perspectives come together to shape a truly inclusive and bold vision. If this proposition aligns with your mission, we’d love to connect with you!
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Our Services
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Capacity Building: Learning support, program scalability, coalition building, donor cultivation, and "Support Beyond the Check" for grantee partners.
Donor Advisement: Grantmaking strategy, strategy implementation, grant portfolio development and management, resource mobilization, cross-sectoral partnerships, and partner convenings.
Program Design: Build and execute actionable blueprints for impact at scale, including designing pilots, outlining budgets, and setting clear impact metrics.
Board Governance: Optimize governance by fostering executive-board trust, aligning structure with strategy, and maximizing board expertise, engagement, and effectiveness.
Latino/na/ne Strategies: Help organizations elevate their brand and messaging through storytelling, dialogues, and culturally responsive experiences. By focusing on a multicultural and generational lens, we guide our partners toward transformative approaches to building trust and creating messaging that resonates deeply with the communities they serve.
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We unlock effective leadership, build deep trust and a sense of belonging, and foster shared success. Our approach integrates collaborative practices to drive internal change and effective teamwork.
Our Core Services:
Action-Oriented Coaching: Build a personalized, one-on-one professional development and support system designed specifically to help executives and leaders navigate the personal, emotional, and team challenges of building and scaling organizations through a social Impact framework.
Team Facilitation: Design and lead high-impact collaborative meetings, team building sessions, retreats, and focus groups. We ensure the community voice is central to every solution and strategic vision.
DEI Frameworks: We will create an environment where all employees, grantee partners, and communities feel seen, heard, valued, respected, supported, and empowered to fully contribute their unique perspectives. We will implement valuable strategies to transform your internal-facing programs, such as Employee Resource Groups, DEI Advisory Committees, and Inclusion Councils.
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Identity & Intersectionality: Defining Core Value and Strategic Alignment: Designed to help individuals, teams, or organizations explore, define, and articulate their core values, mission, and unique characteristics through an intersectional lens. Participants immerse themselves in facilitated exercises to clarify who they are, what they stand for, and how they are perceived. This foundational process drives strategic alignment, impactful communication, and sustainable organizational growth.
Trust-Building Learning: Reimagining the Grantee-Funder Dynamic: Curated learning spaces for donors, grantee partners, boards, and volunteers to reimagine the traditional funding dynamic. This process helps funders authentically partner with grantees in a true spirit of service, fostering trust, equity, and authentic collaboration that maximizes community impact.
Elevate Your Board Service: Strategic Governance and Influential Leadership: Unlock your potential as a nonprofit board director by developing the strategic acumen and influential presence needed to govern with exceptional clarity. Participants will learn to drive meaningful organizational change and create lasting social and community impact through high-impact governance and fiduciary oversight.
Negotiating Through Influence – Advocating for Opportunity: This dynamic and interactive workshop moves beyond traditional salary negotiation tactics to focus on securing career-defining opportunities and strategic influence. Participants will learn how to shift the negotiation conversation from a purely transactional focus on compensation to a collaborative discussion centered on value creation, strategic alignment, and long-term career growth.
Reframing Imposter Syndrome – Leveraging Self-Doubt as Fuel: This powerful session offers a transformative approach to addressing Imposter Syndrome, moving beyond simply "overcoming" it to instead reframing self-doubt as a natural signal of high-achieving behavior and growth. Participants will learn to recognize the five common profiles of Imposter Syndrome and develop concrete cognitive and behavioral tools to interrupt the negative thought cycle.
Bridging Worlds, Building Power: The Latina Bilingual Leader Advantage: This specialized workshop is designed for Latina bilingual leaders navigating the complexities of the U.S. corporate and non-profit landscape. We will engage in a strategic and deeply relevant examination of the unique challenges—the systemic barriers and implicit biases—while simultaneously identifying and leveraging the inherent "super talents" that arise from your intersectional identity, bilingual fluency, and cultural agility. This session moves beyond survival to focus on strategic advancement, intentional influence, and maximizing your cultural capital for sustained professional impact.
Ocean Healing Circles: Well-being, Authenticity, and Nature-Informed Practice: Weave the power of Blue Mind theory and nature-informed practices into your work, leveraging neuroscience and ocean therapy to promote well-being, authenticity, and resilience. This facilitated circle provides a restorative space for leaders to connect with their inner resources and sustain long-term impact.
Tide & Thrive Co. offers a range of engagements and services to help individuals, families, private foundations, community foundations, nonprofits, and value-aligned companies navigate change, achieve sustainable results, and anchor their mission through expert social impact and DEI strategic consulting.
Susi Collins, Founder & Principal, Tide & Thrive Co.
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Susi Collins is the Founder and Principal of Tide & Thrive Co., a seasoned Social Impact Strategist with twenty years of global, high-impact leadership experience from organizations including The Gates Foundation, The George Gund III and Iara Lee Foundation, Salesforce, AWS, and Nordstrom. She excels at building multisector strategies and partnerships, focusing on the crucial intersection of equity, philanthropy, and organizational effectiveness.
As a visionary leader, Susi empowers leaders and organizations to navigate and influence the tides of change, helping them build stronger, more resilient communities. She provides comprehensive strategic support—insightful and actionable—to ensure their work creates sustainable, lasting impact through trust-building.
She holds a Master of Nonprofit Administration from the University of San Francisco and a DEI certificate from Cornell, and is certified with the Ocean Healing Institute. Her leadership insights have been shaped by prestigious fellowships, such as the Aspen Institute Latino Society Program and Hispanics in Philanthropy. She is committed to giving back and has served on nonprofit boards for the past fifteen years, and currently on the UC Santa Cruz Chancellor’s Advisory Council, the Acevedo Foundation, and Poderistas.
Originally from Lima, Peru, Susi resides with her multicultural family in Los Angeles.

