About Us
At Nava Strategy, we are relentless champions of collaboration, sustainability and human-centred, strategic planning, evaluations and capacity building.
Nava exists to help you move from uncertainty to clarity, from ideas to action, and from intention to measurable impact.
We believe people creating social good deserve strategy that is as thoughtful, resilient, and human-centered as the communities they serve.
Our Expertise
We are founders, researchers, educators, facilitators and consultants with decades of expertise. We know how systems and organizations function (from grassroots, start-ups to established groups) and the ecosystems they grow in. Clients leave with a confident road map and tools, to ensure their team has the capacity to tackle its priorities effectively.
Our Philosophy
Our Capabilities
Set Us Apart
Nava means ‘beautiful sound’ in Farsi. We bring a beautiful sound to your journey.
Complex journeys require diverse tools. Outdated training models are no longer, the static strategy doesn’t work. Are you making the progress you want? Our team designs, executes and evaluates strategies, trainings, tools, and workflows that create meaningful and measurable change. We leave these with you to continue in a sustainable manner.
Building Capacity
Evidence-Based Approach
Measuring Results
We design and use evidence-based tools, evaluations and measurement approaches to tailor success. Let’s strengthen performance, programs, and actions through data-driven, decision-making.
Our Approach
Our approach combines analytical thinking with empathy, effective and engaging facilitation, and practical implementation. We believe the best solutions are not imposed from the outside — they are built collaboratively, informed by lived experience, community insight, engaging conversations, and a deep understanding of organizational realities.
Our Process, Your Progress
1. Discovery Call
2. Kick-Off and Assessment
3. Design, Planning & Implementation
4. Evaluations & Iteration
5. Ongoing Collaboration
Areas of Practice
Nonprofits
Nonprofits are overworked and stretched. There is a need to engage communities and build trust, track measurements and impacts without losing sight of the important work provided for clients. Unsure of outcome measurements? Testing a new initiative? Want to catalyze innovation with concrete guidance? We help to address, how a nonprofit can scale, evolve and adapt effectively.
Social Enterprises
Social enterprises face the challenge of balancing profit with purpose. Scaling sustainably requires creating ethical value for communities, the environment, and stakeholders, while ensuring growth, and net neutral or net negative environmental impacts. We help social enterprises make strategic decisions that drive, purpose, lasting impact and success.
Creatives
The way people consume and interact with art is constantly in flux. Distribution, revenue streams, customer markets, purchasing habits, and other relationships are ever evolving. The landscape is hyper-competitive and algorithmic driven. The internet and technology are so pervasive. We help to address, how to leverage the best ideas and tools into promising opportunities.
Salomeh Ahmadi (she/her)
BHSc, MBA
Non-profit worker, professor, researcher and facilitator, Salomeh is passionate about connecting the parts to the whole ecosystem in empowering and creative ways. She works with social entrepreneurs, non-profits and creatives providing consulting, an equity and human rights lens, strategy and training, to create lasting positive impacts. She’s helped found grassroots groups, led research projects, mentored start-ups and sat on multiple boards. She believes honest collaboration helps get to the root of sustainable solutions.
Roxy Cohen (she/her)
M.Ed., PhD
A passionate facilitator who uses her education and community building background to design engaging learning experiences for diverse organizations – corporate, government, university, non-profit, and co-operative sectors. She focuses on climate leadership, co-founding Conscious Minds Co-op and Camp, and Rooted and Rising Lab. Guiding leaders and teams with deep care, she helps them discover the processes, and insights needed to foster collaborative, positive atmospheres – helping teams and leaders discover pathways to success and a more harmonious world.