Possibility in Practice is coaching and consulting for organizations and coalitions ready to work more clearly, collaboratively, and sustainably, without losing sight of what matters most.
For nonprofits, coalitions, and mission-driven organizations
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Leadership Load
What You're Up Against
Avoiding the Hard Stuff, Even When It Matters
You can feel the tension under the surface. The conversations your team avoids are the very ones that could unlock alignment, but it’s hard to know how to hold them well.
Coalition Work Is Beautiful and Messy
As a coalition lead, you’re not just managing your own team. You’re facilitating across orgs, holding complexity, and navigating competing timelines, personalities, and politics. The collaboration is worth it, but the work can get tangled fast.
Process Breakdown
Decision-making drags, roles blur, and partners unintentionally compete. Admin delays, unspoken politics, and identity dynamics go unnamed, all eroding trust and making it harder to move from urgent delivery to long-term systems change.
Leading Change Without a Safety Net
You’re trying to shift culture, structure, or strategy, but it’s slow, sensitive work. Resistance, uncertainty, and fatigue are real, and it’s hard to know where to intervene or how to pace the process.
Wearing Too Many Hats at Once
Leading a mission-driven organization takes vision, strategy, and emotional labor, often all at once. As an Executive Director, you’re holding the needs of staff, board, funders, and community, while trying to move big work forward with limited time, capacity, or internal support.
Board Pressure That Doesn’t Match Your Lived Reality
You’re balancing the need for transparency with the risk of being misunderstood. Your board wants alignment, but you need them to understand what’s really happening on the ground and trust your leadership through ambiguity and transition.
Coalition Complexity
Foggy Roles, Foggy Decisions
People are stepping up, but without clarity on who decides what.
The lack of shared decision-making pathways creates confusion, tension, and stalled momentum.
Trying to Grow Without the Structure to Sustain It
Your nonprofit team is committed but stretched thin. There’s no real breathing room to pause, recalibrate, or plan long-term. The urgency of the day-to-day is running the show, and decisions feel reactive instead of strategic.
Your Org Has Grown, But the Structure Hasn’t
You’ve outgrown your fiscal sponsor, your staffing model, or your internal processes.
You’re ready for change — but the next step still feels daunting.
Structural and Strategic Gaps
Supporting Leaders Who Are Still Finding Their Way
You see the potential in your emerging leaders, but they’re still building the skills to lead across difference, hold responsibility, and drive clarity. You’re carrying more than your share while trying to help them grow.
Internal Misalignment That’s Starting to Show Externally
Miscommunication and lack of clarity within your team are showing up in how you engage with funders and partners. It’s slowing collaboration, muddling your message, and straining your credibility.
Team Dynamics and Culture
Emotional Labor That Isn’t Shared Equally
Some nonprofit staff are holding culture, identity, and community impact alongside their roles, while others operate without that weight. It’s creating silent fractures in your team.
Holding Equity and Care, But Struggling to Operationalize Them
As a working board, your values are clear. But your communities' needs are so urgent that you don't have time to slow down. You’re ready to move from vision to implementation across identities, roles, and power and build systems that reflect what you believe.
What's Possible Instead?
A leadership pipeline that’s prepared and passionate
Systems that support the work, not slow it down
Strategic priorities that reflect both values and reality
A structure that matches who your organization is now
Clear, grounded decision-making that builds shared ownership
A culture where accountability doesn’t mean burnout, and care doesn’t mean avoidance
Hard conversations held with skill and trust
Shared understanding that strengthens your voice with funders, partners, and your board
Coalition collaboration that’s coordinated, equitable, and values-aligned
All of this is possible, without overextending your team, compromising your values, or doing it alone.
Possibility in Practice is a custom, strategic partnership designed to help you build the internal clarity, systems, and shared leadership your work needs to grow and thrive.
Through coaching and consulting grounded in equity, care, and real-world experience, we’ll strengthen your organization's ability to collaborate across roles, lead with confidence, and move in alignment—so you can meet the moment and deliver on your mission.
Consulting & Coaching for Collective Power
SEE WHAT'S POSSIBLE
Real-world experience. Deep cultural fluency. A decade of leadership development rooted in equity and care.
Why Malaya Solutions?
With over 10 years of experience across nonprofits, government, and creative industries, I bring a unique lens to organizational growth. I’ve sat in your seat, grant writing, managing programs, building coalitions and now I help mission-driven teams do their work with more clarity, sustainability, and connection.
Firsthand Nonprofit Experience
I’ve worked in program management, grant writing, and coalition organizing with nonprofits. I understand the pace, politics, and pressure you’re under, because I’ve lived it.
Results That Stick
I’ve coached over 100 leaders and partnered with dozens of organizations to increase team alignment, reduce burnout, and move bold ideas into action. Whether you’re navigating growth, change, or internal tension, we can build your next chapter together.
Culturally-Responsive Expertise
Trained in trauma-informed coaching, public health, and somatics, I help leaders and teams navigate growth through approaches that honor cultural identity and collective healing—not just “best practices.”
Proven Tools, Not Just Theory
From Broadway productions to city agencies to grassroots nonprofits, I’ve helped teams design inclusive systems, restructure roles, and develop leadership pipelines that last.
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What We Can Co-Create
Strategic support to strengthen the structures behind your values, from role clarity and decision-making to communication flow and cross-team collaboration.
Capacity Building and Technical Assistance
Virtual or in-person gatherings for visioning, realignment, healing, and connection, held with care and designed around your team’s lived experience.
Retreats and Off-sites
Individual support for executive leaders and emerging change makers navigating growth, transition, or expanding influence, with grounding in self-awareness, equity, and strategy.
Executive and Leadership Coaching
Ongoing spaces for team members, whether they share an identity, a role type, or a place on the org chart, to build trust, process real-time challenges, and practice new ways of leading together. Ideal for people navigating shared responsibilities like project leadership, cross-functional collaboration, or middle management.
Group Coaching
Every partnership is custom-designed based on your team’s goals, needs, and capacity. Together, we’ll shape an offering that supports both your people and your purpose. Depending on what’s most needed, your program may include:
Not sure what you need yet? We’ll figure it out together.
Interactive, culturally responsive learning sessions that build shared language and skill around feedback, accountability, inclusive leadership, conflict, and more.
Trainings and Workshops
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Self-Compassion
We begin by creating space for reflection, care, and honesty. Your team can’t lead sustainably if everyone’s operating from burnout, guilt, or urgency.
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Intention
We get clear on what matters most: your values, your role in the ecosystem, and your purpose in this season. That clarity anchors strategy, not the other way around.
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Healing
We name and tend to the unspoken dynamics, the inherited patterns, past harm, and internal disconnects that quietly shape how your team works together.
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Transformation
We integrate those shifts into your daily work and relationships, rooting new ways of being that ripple across your team, your partners, and your community.
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Fulfillment
We co-create the structures, agreements, and rhythms that bring your vision to life in ways that are responsive, collaborative, and actually doable.
APPLY FOR COACHING
Together, we’ll build a leadership practice and organizational rhythm that is values-aligned, resilient, and liberatory, from the inside out.
This process is iterative, co-created, and grounded in cultural and emotional intelligence.
A decolonial, values-rooted approach to collective leadership and organizational transformation
Inspired by the weaving of a banig — a traditional Filipino mat made of many interlocking strands — this framework holds the nonlinear, relational nature of organizational change. Each engagement weaves together five interdependent threads:
My Approach:
The S.H.I.F.T. Framework
A decolonial, values-rooted approach to collective leadership and organizational transformation
Inspired by the weaving of a banig — a traditional Filipino mat made of many interlocking strands — this framework holds the nonlinear, relational nature of organizational change. Each engagement weaves together five interdependent threads:
My Approach:
The S.H.I.F.T. Framework
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Self-Compassion
We begin by creating space for reflection, care, and honesty. Your team can’t lead sustainably if everyone’s operating from burnout, guilt, or urgency.
H
Healing
We name and tend to the unspoken dynamics, the inherited patterns, past harm, and internal disconnects that quietly shape how your team works together.
I
Intention
We get clear on what matters most: your values, your role in the ecosystem, and your purpose in this season. That clarity anchors strategy, not the other way around.
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Fulfillment
We co-create the structures, agreements, and rhythms that bring your vision to life in ways that are responsive, collaborative, and actually doable.
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Transformation
We integrate those shifts into your daily work and relationships, rooting new ways of being that ripple across your team, your partners, and your community.
This internal clarity and connection leads to:
Stronger, more authentic relationships with funders and partners
Increased capacity to grow without losing your values or burning out your people
More effective change management when navigating pivots, transitions, or crises
A clearer case for support, because your team knows how to articulate your impact and values
Greater trust in your leadership, from both within and beyond your organization
What Becomes Possible
Clients often experience:
Clearer alignment between values, vision, and daily practice
Defined roles and shared accountability across teams and partnerships
Increased confidence and influence among both emerging and senior leaders
Honest, compassionate communication around feedback, conflict, and change
Stronger relationships across departments, roles, or organizations
Sustainable rhythms that support well-being and impact
Deeper trust in each other and in the work you’re doing together
Your impact can be more powerful, more sustainable, and more deeply rooted in purpose.
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Case Study
Our collective growth and the positive changes we've witnessed are a testament to the power of dedicated coaching and the potential within each of us to rise and lead. This journey has been about more than just professional development; it's celebrated our unique identities and strengths, paving the way for others to follow.
Daphany Rose Sanchez, Executive Director, Kinetic Communities
One of my proudest achievements has been significantly enhancing my team's performance and engagement. By applying the insights and strategies gained from coaching, Patti has fostered a more inclusive and dynamic work environment.
Patti is a role model and mentor for other women of color within my network, inspiring them to pursue their goals with tenacity and confidence.
Embarking on a journey with leadership coaching has been a transformative experience for my team and me. Through our sessions, I've unlocked new levels of self-awareness and confidence, allowing me to lead with greater empathy and effectiveness.
The impact of this coaching has not just been personal; it has reverberated through our entire organization, fostering a culture of inclusivity and empowerment. As a woman of color in leadership, this experience has been particularly empowering, setting a precedent for what's achievable for others in our community.
We tailor coaching and consulting offerings to your organization’s size, resources, and needs. Whether you’re a grassroots coalition or a growing nonprofit team, we’ll co-create an offering that feels financially accessible and honors the depth and value of the work.
This work is built to support sustainability, and that includes your budget.
- Organizational size and annual budget
- Scope and duration of our work together
- The mix of services included (coaching, facilitation, retreat design, etc.)
- Capacity for long-term engagement or phased support
Pricing is shaped by:
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