Sustainable, Systematic Support For a Good Life
We’re consultants who empower nonprofits, communities, and educators with innovative, time-tested tools, and systems so they can make a more meaningful, more sustainable impact.
About Our Services
How we support our clients is as important as what we support. We approach our “how” with empathy, encouraging agency and co-designing with the communities we work with. This is how long-lasting change happens and community leaders are built.
Programs and Systems Analysis
We analyze practices, programs, and systems to support communities in understanding the current context and landscape in which they work.
Strategic Planning for Community Change
This is a set of services that help organizations and communities reimagine how to use their assets to improve results.
Build Data Capacity
We help you understand and grow the mindsets, systems, and infrastructure to support a strong data culture.
Data-Driven Improvement
In this process we use “disciplined inquiry” to identify, adapt, and scale promising practices and improvements.
Change Implementation and Sustenance
These are the set of services that help organizations and communities design, implement, and sustain new priorities.
Programs and Systems Analysis
We analyze practices, programs, and systems to support communities in understanding the current context and landscape in which they work.
Community Ownership
We help support institutions to move along the continuum of community engagement.
Change Implementation and Sustenance
These are the set of services that help organizations and communities design, implement, and sustain new priorities.
About MAYA Consulting
We are a team of strategists who support school districts, community organizations, nonprofits, and foundations to increase their impact. MAYA Consulting is a catalyst for transformational systems change. Our goal is to build social capital, promote economic mobility, and foster community well-being.
Focus Areas
The six focus areas of what MAYA supports are interconnected and mutually reinforce each other. We strategize to include all 6 touchpoints when addressing any challenge.
Responsive
Relationships
Relationships
Holistic Family,
Child and Youth
Support
Child and Youth
Support
Quality Learning
Environments For
Student Success
Environments For
Student Success
Community and
Systems Partnerships
Systems Partnerships
Innovative Systems
and Models
and Models
Data Ownership,
Stewardship & Innovation
Stewardship & Innovation
What Is A Good Life?
We offer support from cradle to career for a “good life,” which is defined by: productive work, rewarding relationships, creative self-expression, civic and political engagement, and health.
Services that Build Social Capital and Promote Economic Mobility
Our services include results-focused strategic planning, authentic and sustainable community power building, developing robust data cultures and systems, and providing technical assistance and expert advising. We also conduct comprehensive landscape analyses and design and implement impactful programs.
At the heart of our approach is building empathy and understanding. We accomplish this by listening to a diverse range of voices across the system. We leverage both quantitative and qualitative data to drive narrative change, empowering communities to tell their stories through data.
- Building empathy by hearing from a diverse set of voices with lived experience
- Utilizing quantitative and qualitative data to support equity-centered narrative change by helping communities tell stories through data.
Nonprofit Consulting
We’re with you to make an impact for the long-run. That’s why we focus on supporting education, policy, and philanthropic sectors. We’re a team of experts and practitioners in these fields, so we see opportunities where other consultants can’t.
Community Building
The most sustainable solutions to complex issues are created in the community. Our approach is grounded in empathy, listening, and co-designing solutions with community members who have lived experience in order to make generational change and to nurture future leaders.
- Philanthropy-community partnerships that make high-impact investment
- District-charter partnerships for mutually beneficial aid
- District early-childhood partnerships in order to improve early development
Real Stories Of Real Impact
We’re proud to have helped organizations in Texas raise millions of dollars for education, implemented scalable strategies for programs that support college readiness, and more.
Testimonials
“The support that Texas A&M University-San Antonio received from MAYA was vital to both the development of the charter partnership between the university and Edgewood ISD and to the initial implementation of the first partnership agreements. MAYA provided technical assistance, guidance, feedback and encouragement throughout the process. At the heart of MAYA’s support are incredible employees who fully understand the processes, systems, and requirements of SB 1882 in Texas and who are skillful in assisting others to navigate these from initial conversations through implementation.”
“MAYA shows up to listen first and provide support that meets our unique needs. Our coach helps us leverage our bright spots and grow our capacity to deliver instruction that students need and deserve.”
“We loved working with the MAYA team. We appreciated their frequent touchpoints, clear communication of plans, and high-level of reliability and accountability. MAYA brought tremendous early childhood, project management, and statewide expertise to support the development of our business plan.”
“We could not be happier with the work MAYA has done with our team/organization and how much we enjoy working with them as colleagues. Their work products have been very high-quality and aligned to our vision, they have helped push our thinking and performance in really constructive ways, and we enjoy working/collaborating with them as though we were all part of the same team in the same organization.”
“The MAYA team has been instrumental throughout the process of developing and continuously improving implementation of our career and postsecondary learning objectives for students. We have formed a strong partnership that supports students, teachers, and counselors across the country while centering the identity and experiences of the communities we support. MAYA has been a strategic partner and has built strong relationships within our national team as well as with stakeholders across regions.”
“Our biggest success in this whole thing is bringing more people into the conversation and having actual tools to move forward with the things we wanted to do.”
“I appreciate the professionalism, support, and thoughtfulness of each member of the MAYA team. Individually, every member is impressive; collectively, they are simply amazing! They are always “at the ready” to answer a question, explain a concept, or provide insight into how to approach a challenge in a more efficient or effective way. They are experts in their craft but lead with a humility that is endearing and refreshing. I cannot think of a better way to compliment this team than by saying that they demonstrate “the heart of a teacher” at every turn. MAYA, thank you for all that you do to support, encourage, and improve the talent of each data fellow! I appreciate you!”
“The MAYA team helped us write an AIM statement that was specific to the needs of our students and community. Through their coaching, we have been able to identify and use data to support the post secondary access for our LatinX students with the support of the school and community.”
“I was really impressed by the depth and breadth of knowledge and real world experience the [MAYA] team brought to this project. Their creativity, connections and research were much more than I even expected. We could not have done this work without the team. MAYA had to navigate between multiple groups and multiple personalities. Their team did an excellent job of doing this while at the same time keeping us focused and being realistic about what needed to be done when. Hats off!”
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