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Reclaim 5–10 Hours a Week and Unlock $40K+ in Strategic Wins—
Without the Overhead of Hiring

Strategic Capacity Studio

 

Even the best plans fall flat without the capacity to follow through.

Strategic Capacity Studio™ is a 12-week sprint designed to help nonprofit leaders and funders reclaim bandwidth, sharpen strategy, and install high-leverage systems and support structures that turn intention into aligned, measurable results. You’ll amplify your strengths, rally collaborators around what matters most, and spark momentum that transforms not just your workload—but your lasting impact.

 
 

problem

 
 

Most Nonprofits
Have the Vision—But Not the Bandwidth
to Deliver.

 

Today's most passionate leaders work in a rapidly changing environment, where team members struggle to do more with less. You're navigating complex strategies, competing demands, and limited capacity. Progress is stalling, staff are stretched thin, and impact feels harder to measure or sustain.

For Funders and Ecosystem Partners? You’re investing in vision-driven leaders who need stronger execution support—not just more plans and reports.

The social impact sector is filled with inspiring missions— but what most leaders need is the protected time, sustainable systems, and practical support to follow through.

 

⁕ Competing Priorities

Your workload is heavy with important tasks and many great ideas, but you have limited bandwidth and fear burnout.

⁕ Fragmented Resources

You see the chance for growth and lasting impact, but you're unsure how to best direct your efforts and resources.

⁕ Engagement Constraints

Your staff, board and community want to support your mission, but you can't empower and meaningfully engage them at scale.

 

The social impact sector has a capacity gap. It’s time we created a solution to close it.

You’re at a critical inflection point.

In just 12 weeks, you can reclaim your time, strengthen alignment, and unlock strategic capacity—with the structure, partnership, and momentum to reignite what makes your leadership most impactful.

YOUR CAPACITY ACCELERATOR

Join the Strategic Capacity Studio to accelerate your team’s execution.

Over 12 weeks, you’ll reclaim leadership bandwidth, sharpen execution, and restore momentum—without burning out in the process or needing to add another full-time hire.

 

At a Glance:

  • Break down silos with up to 5 leaders included per organization

  • Reclaim 5–10 hours per week of leadership capacity

  • Map and measure 40+ strategic capacity wins— identifying at least $40K in value

  • Create key assets to sustain your capacity

  • Attend weekly live sessions with real-time expert support

program structure

Here’s how we structure your time in the Strategic Capacity Studio:

 

Key Phases

This isn’t about doing more—it’s about doing what matters, in the right order, with the right support. This helps make sure that the solutions we identify work with your strengths and align with the current conditions surrounding your organization.

01

Reclaim Bandwidth

Uncover what's draining your capacity and install practices that free up time to lead.

02

Build Momentum

Clarify priorities, reset roles, and start executing strategic wins in real time.

03

Activate Your Ecosystem

Engage the right collaborators—staff, board, or funders—to amplify your impact.

04

Scale What Works

Codify systems, measure what matters, and build repeatable traction.

 

Key Features

Everything here is built to help you accelerate your follow through on your strategy with confidence, structure, and support. We are co-creating this space to clarify your priorities, remove obstacles, and unlock a path to your vision that feels sustainable.

Live Strategy Sessions

Learn and troubleshoot with expert guidance (Weeks 1–8)

Implementation Sprints

Real-time support while you take action (Weeks 9–12)

1:1 Coaching Channel

Personalized strategy and review

Asynchronous Feedback

Submit work for expert insight and optimization

Private Community

Stay accountable, get quick answers

Templates & Playbooks

Plug-and-play systems for fast wins

Why does this matter?

True ROI comes when intention is activated through aligned teams, focused leadership, and sustainable systems designed to make your progress stick.

Your experience changes when you unlock the capacity to meet your refined strategy.

 

Strategic Capacity Studio gives you focused support, proven systems, and a space designed to accelerate wins without draining your energy.

This experience gives you a trusted partner who can translate vision into traction. We empower you to do the work real-time and unlock any bottlenecks or obstacles in the way of your success.

 

Before Strategic Capacity Studio

❌ Constantly firefighting and feeling behind

❌ No time to execute the vision

❌ Burnout and leadership fatigue

❌ Lack of clarity across departments

❌ Reporting progress feels overwhelming

After Strategic Capacity Studio ✨

✅ Reclaimed bandwidth and focus

✅ 40+ implemented capacity wins

✅ Energized teams with shared priorities

✅ Visibility with funders and stakeholders

✅ Tangible progress that fuels retention & funding

 

Register Your Spot Now

*Limited seats left! Don’t miss out!

Join the Strategic Capacity Studio for $6,000

Participate in this 12-week catalyst to unlock the clarity, collaboration, and capacity you need to transform how your days flow, how your team functions, and how your mission achieves lasting impact.

  • Save 5–10 hours/week in leader capacity

  • Implement 40+ strategic wins with lasting traction

  • Energize your team and reduce decision fatigue

  • Increase visibility with funders, partners, and your board

  • Strengthen retention, morale, and mission clarity

Your Investment
$6,000 per organization with 5 leaders included (equivalent to just $100 per leader/week)

Funder Partnerships
Sponsor 2+ organizations starting at $17,000 to unlock shared capacity-building, cross-organizational insights, and measurable traction—at a fraction of the cost and time of most traditional grantmaking processes.

 

Designed for Nonprofit Teams & Strategic Funders

The Strategic Capacity Studio is built to support the people doing the real work of social change. Whether you're leading a nonprofit team or funding those who do, we help you strengthen capacity where it matters most.

For Nonprofit Leaders

Strategic Capacity Studio helps bridge the capacity gap for executives who have big ambitions. By bringing up to 5 team members, you reduce silos and create shared momentum—with the structure, space, and support to actually follow through and achieve lasting impact.

If you’re a nonprofit leader, here’s how you’ll benefit:

  • You're no stranger to pressure. We work with Executive Directors, COOs, and program leads to reset the rhythms of leadership—so you can reclaim your time, protect your energy, and stay grounded in the vision, values, and mission that brought you to this work in the first place.

  • Your mission isn’t a solo act. Invite up to 5 team members to reduce silos, make smarter decisions, and co-own your biggest strategic goals. We build systems that outlast any one person’s bandwidth.

  • Scaling isn’t just about ambition—it’s about infrastructure and an empowering, energized network of support. This 12-week sprint combines live strategy, curated tools, and execution sprints that turn great plans into visible wins and undeniable traction.

For Funders

Most grantees feel pressure to look polished—even when they're struggling.

The Strategic Capacity Studio builds trust and reveals real operational needs, giving you honest insight, portfolio-wide patterns, and a smarter way to fund what's needed most.

Here’s how the Strategic Capacity Studio strengthens your funding strategy:

  • Help grantees follow through on the strategy you’ve already invested in—so your funding translates into results that stick.

  • Support 2–5 orgs at once through shared learning and strategic implementation. One investment, multi-org impact.

  • Get post-program insight into cross-org capacity trends and gaps—so you can fund with more clarity and confidence.

How it works

A 12-week sprint to activate strategic capacity at your organization

Over 12 weeks, you’ll get the structure, strategy, and support to move from stuck to scaling—without burning out in the process. Together, we’ll install the systems and habits that make follow-through easier and impact more sustainable.

The framework has 3 core anchors guiding your experience to help you:

  • Elevate personal performance and reclaim leadership bandwidth

  • Execute strategically and grow in alignment with your mission

  • Strengthen your systems and your people for long-term impact

 
 

01

Signature Success

You deserve a path to peak performance that’s uniquely yours.

That’s why I craft personalized strategies that leverage your strengths and integrate the latest technology, so you can achieve results that align with who you are and where you want to go.

02

Purposeful Progress

Your growth should make a difference—not just for you, but for your entire organization.

I help you align your personal goals with your company’s mission and vision, ensuring that every step you take drives meaningful, sustainable impact that’s both purposeful and fulfilling.

03

Empowered Networks

Success isn’t achieved in isolation—you need the right support systems in place.

I help you build stronger networks and integrate advanced tools, creating an environment where you and your team can thrive, ensuring your progress is both steady and well-supported.

Included Things

Here’s what you’ll get when you join.

 

Personalized Coaching

Compassionate, solution-oriented support to help you identify blindspots and roadblocks so you can reach reimagine your capacity and strategic priorities.

  • Leverage live calls and tap into specialized knowledge from working in Marketing, Communications, Fundraising, Programs, Customer Care, and Sales

Updated Leadership OS

Update your Leadership Operating System with a comprehensive roadmap. Get a Capacity Care Plan to sustain growth and manage personal capacity using my proprietary "PLAN" framework.

  • Take Pulse, Identify Leverage, Ignite Activator, Engage Network

Leadership Power Tools

Coaching and guidance using PERMA, sometimes called the “human dashboard,” is a proven positive psychology framework for improving people’s subjective wellbeing by focusing on five life dimensions:

  • PERMA: Positive emotion, Engagement, Relationships, Meaning, and Accomplishment.

 

Quick Wins Starter Pack

A customized plan for achieving measurable, mission-aligned goals, focusing on actionable steps, resource allocation, and success milestones.

  • Perfect for individuals or teams needing clarity and structure in executing strategic objectives

Momentum Map

A simple, centralized tool to help you track capacity wins, align your team, and see strategic progress at a glance—delivered via Notion, Google Drive, or whatever works best for your workflow.

Includes:

  • Capacity Snapshot (self-assessments)

  • Project Tracker for goal prioritization

  • Metrics Dashboard for visualizing progress

Private Peer Network

Join a curated network of peers for support, accountability, and ongoing growth. Features:

  • Monthly community calls

  • Community Hotline for Q&A

  • Exclusive access to curated resources

Review

“I deeply value Diaris' transparency, openness, and willingness to try new ideas! I am grateful to be able to engage with her as a thought partner as we consistently question long-held "best" practices, challenge each other's thinking to release our own assumptions and biases, and learn from one another in areas we are less familiar with.

It's difficult to find a thought partner who offers you the necessary psychological safety to learn with humility and grow with confidence in a work environment. I deeply appreciate her commitment to the work and to creating a productive and trusting environment.”

Kristy An
Director of Insights, Management Leadership for Tomorrow

 

Who’s the Lead facilitator?

Hey, I’m Diaris—your new partner for this experience.

I’m an operations leader, marketer, consultant, and coach who designs strategies that deliver the results that matter.

I’m on a mission to help people deal with burnout so the world can benefit from their unique gifts.

Today, I support mission-driven high achievers in achieving more nourishing habits and effective operations so that they can sustainably lead their lives with more meaning, purpose, and impact.

 

“Diving deeper into analyzing my career goals and how that connects to what I'm doing now (or could be doing) really helped me feel like I was doing things with intention and not just doing what is asked of me and hoping that I'm doing it right. I feel a lot more comfortable using my skills and interests to complete tasks and set desired outcomes from the start. It's a new way of approaching things in my career, and I will definitely be focusing on how I can make the most out of everything I do in internships, jobs, and even things outside of my career.”

Kallie Bean

“Diaris Alexander, MBA PMP you are truly the queen + calm whisperer of balance + wellness in this work. Thank you for coming back into our space. I truly take notes every time you speak. We're all works in progress to prioritize our health in this work - me included.”

Becky Endicott

“Diaris has been an exceptional sounding board and guide as I navigated what felt like an overwhelming amount of personal and professional options. I shared where I was struggling and she not only helped me draft a game plan, but she held me accountable for hitting my benchmarks. In the end, what once felt insurmountable, became digestible tasks that I was able to confidently tackle. ”

Ro Williams

Your future

What could you achieve if you doubled your capacity?

Imagine a future where your organization thrives at every level. Teams collaborate effortlessly, operations run like a well-oiled machine, and everyone feels energized to prioritize what matters most. Happy and productive teams engage a growing base of loyal supporters, backlogs are miraculously completed, and dream resources float in to help scale your impact.

✼ Thriving teams
✼ Earned media
✼ Updated strategic plan

✼ Streamlined systems
✼ Renewable funding
✼ Scalable growth

Still have questions?
Here are some answers.

  • This program is designed for visionary leaders, nonprofit executives, and mission-driven professionals who want to break free from burnout, build sustainable systems, and scale their impact.

  • Expect to dedicate 1-4 hours per week for strategy calls, coursework, and implementation. The program is designed to fit into your existing schedule and set clear priorities while ensuring tangible progress.

  • All calls will be recorded and available for replay. You’ll also have access to asynchronous reviews, templates, and community discussions to keep you on track.

  • This isn’t a one-size-fits-all leadership course. It’s a tailored, action-driven sprint toward tangible execution.

    The experience combines custom strategy, coaching, and implementation support to help you reclaim time, implement wins, and scale sustainably.

  • You'll leave with a Capacity Care Plan, Strategic Success Blueprint, Impact Support Dashboard, and ongoing access to the core curriculum to reference as you sustain your progress.

  • You’ll receive 1:1 strategy calls, asynchronous feedback, community calls, and access to playbooks and templates to help you execute your plan.

  • Yes! Enrollment includes up to 5 leaders per organization, so you can reduce silos and build shared capacity across your team. We recommend including those involved in strategy, operations, or implementation—so the work doesn’t sit on one person’s shoulders.

  • Your full 12-week experience is $6,000 per organization, which includes access for up to 5 team members. That breaks down to $100 per leader per week—designed to be high-value, high-impact, and scalable.

  • You’ll leave with the systems, templates, and team alignment to keep making progress.

    You’ll have the option to continue with extended support or join a higher-level strategy cohort for ongoing implementation and refinement.

  • If you’re tired of spinning your wheels, feeling overwhelmed, or lacking clear direction, this program will give you the structure, tools, and expert guidance to move from survival mode to strategic leadership of your capacity – especially in the age of AI and changes to the economic & social landscape.