Lead with Clarity.
When the path forward isn’t clear, even the strongest leaders can feel overwhelmed or blown off course. Too often, leaders respond to adaptive challenges with technical solutions. To lead through complexity, you need new ways of thinking—not just new tactics.
Jones-Taylor Strategies works with nonprofit executives, mission-driven teams, and philanthropies when the stakes are high and the way forward isn’t obvious. Whether you’re navigating a leadership transition, strategic inflection point, funding uncertainty, internal instability, or sociopolitical change, we help you see what’s really getting in the way and determine what needs to shift.
Our work is grounded in adaptive leadership. We help leaders recognize the mindsets and patterns that limit their effectiveness, build greater self-awareness, and develop the capacity to lead with greater clarity, conviction, and compassion.
We help organizations:
Strengthen leadership, culture, and collaboration
Build and rebuild trust with funders and stakeholders
Translate greater alignment into lasting impact
Our Services
Schedule a call,
Identify your goals,
Start your journey.
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One-on-one coaching for leaders navigating challenging leader and staff dynamics, isolation, and complexity.
Leaders today face increasing pressure to act decisively and visibly. Our coaching creates space to lead intentionally—with clarity and confidence.
We help leaders:
Sharpen strategic focus
Uncover blind spots
Make values-aligned decisions
Increase executive presence
Lead adaptively, not reactively
Coaching packages available.
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Guidance through leadership transitions, strategic pivots, and stakeholder tensions.
Disruption is inevitable - and it can be transformational. We bring tools and insight to help leaders meet adaptive challenges with clarity and momentum.
We help organizations:
Plan through complex change
Communicate through uncertainty
Sustain mission focus through instability and resistance
Realign strategies with intention
Drive execution amid change
Available on short-, mid-, and long-term retainer.
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Facilitated team development that promotes collaboration, equity, and accountability.
Culture is the soil where strategy grows - or withers. Our trainings and facilitation help teams create inclusive, resilient environments.
We help teams:
Address unspoken friction and silos
Co-create norms that foster agility and collaboration
Align values, systems, and behaviors
Build trust, accountability, and connection
Connect everyday actions to long-term goals
Team coaching and training packages available.
About Myra | Leadership
Aligning people, policy, and strategy to deliver measurable impact has defined Myra Jones-Taylor’s career. As a senior executive, she has led state agencies and national organizations through moments of profound transition and growth—from envisioning and launching Connecticut’s first cabinet-level early childhood agency as its founding commissioner, to increasing the impact and elevating the visibility of the Urban Institute and Zero to Three.
Myra’s strength is not only strategic vision, but her ability to bring diverse stakeholders together around a shared purpose and move them to action. She has built cross-sector coalitions, bridged institutional divides, launched new lines of work, and shaped policy with lasting impact for children and families nationwide. She has done so in some of the most challenging political environments, earning a reputation for bringing even apathetic or opposing stakeholders to the table, working through differences, and getting things done.
An anthropologist and ethnographer by training, Myra brings a systems-level lens to leadership, culture, and change. She helps leaders identify the mindsets and patterns holding them back, shift what no longer serves them, and lead with greater clarity, conviction, and impact. Her work is deeply human, sharply strategic, and grounded in purpose.
