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LEADERSHIP • OPERATIONS • TECHNOLOGY • EXECUTION
What We Do
We help business and nonprofit leaders strengthen governance, improve operations, and turn priorities into results. Whether you’re navigating growth, managing a transition, or advancing an important initiative, we bring experienced leadership and practical, hands-on support tailored to each organization’s goals, resources, and capacity.
The areas below reflect where we most often help, not a fixed menu.
Leadership & Governance
Clarify decisions, strengthen accountability, and align teams
Operational Transformation
Improve how work gets done and turn priorities into action
Technology Operations
Modernize technology services, workflows, and reporting
Nonprofit Strategy
Strengthen boards, diversify revenue, and build lasting capacity
How We Work
The right engagement depends on what your organization needs to move forward. We may advise leadership, facilitate alignment, assess operations, lead implementation, provide interim leadership, or partner with your team to deliver sustainable improvements. Engagements are scoped to the need, from a focused effort on a single priority to longer-term implementation or interim support.
Build capability, not dependency.
We listen first, work alongside the people closest to the challenge, and stay engaged through implementation. Our work emphasizes clear ownership, documented processes, knowledge transfer, and deliberate handoff—so improvements continue delivering value after the engagement ends.
Every engagement should leave an organization stronger than we found it.
Who We Work With
We work with small and mid-sized businesses, mission-driven nonprofits, and larger organizations navigating growth, change, modernization, or transition.
Leaders often reach out when:
An important initiative has stalled or lacks clear ownership
Growth has outpaced the organization's processes or capacity
Teams are disconnected and decisions aren't moving forward
A leadership, organizational, or technology transition needs experienced support
Critical knowledge or responsibilities depend on too few people
We work most directly with a CEO, COO, CIO, CTO, Executive Director, Board Chair, or other leader responsible for moving the work forward.
Representative Experience
Meaningful progress requires more than a plan. Our approach is grounded in leadership experience across consulting, executive, and nonprofit roles.
Enterprise Transformation
Led a Fortune 500 organization’s transition to a centralized service operation, from assessment and organizational design through go-live, stabilization, and handoff to internal ownership. Coordinated six workstreams spanning people, process, technology, and readiness.
Operations & Leadership
Directed enterprise support services for about 4,500 employees, leading roughly 70 professionals and an approximately $5 million annual budget. Built a 25-person internal team, developed emerging leaders, and modernized operations, raising first-tier resolution from 59% to 78%.
Governance & Decision-Making
Led the development of a governance framework for a major healthcare organization, establishing clear decision-making responsibilities, evaluation criteria, approval processes, and escalation procedures. The organization approved the framework and began implementation.
Nonprofit Leadership & Growth
Led a nonprofit turnaround that strengthened financial reserves and more than doubled membership. Provided board leadership for a growing arts nonprofit, expanding sponsorships, strengthening governance, and professionalizing operations.
About
Joshua D. Lorenz is the Principal Operator of Lorenz Advisory Group. With more than 15 years of experience across enterprise consulting, technology operations, organizational transformation, and nonprofit leadership, he helps organizations navigate complexity and turn strategic priorities into practical results.
He has worked on both sides of organizational change: as a consultant leading transformation engagements through implementation, and as an executive accountable for the teams, budgets, and service performance that had to work afterward. He has also served as a nonprofit president and board chair, combining board-level perspective with hands-on operational leadership.
He established Lorenz Advisory Group around a simple belief: organizations deserve more than recommendations. They deserve an experienced partner who helps them make progress while building the capability to succeed independently.
Let's Talk
If something on this page sounds familiar, we’d welcome a conversation. Use the button below to tell us a little about your organization and what you’re working through, and we’ll follow up to talk about whether we’re a good fit.
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