We help organizations strengthen how they lead, operate, and execute. Every engagement begins with the organization’s goals—not a predefined methodology or packaged solution. We adapt our role to meet the moment, whether that means advising leadership, facilitating alignment, leading implementation, or working alongside your team to deliver lasting results.
We help leaders create clarity, strengthen accountability, improve governance, align teams, and build the operational conditions people need to do their best work. Our work often includes leadership alignment, decision-making structures, organizational design, performance visibility, employee experience, and operating-model improvement.
We help organizations turn important priorities into coordinated, sustainable action. Engagements often involve diagnosing operational challenges, clarifying ownership, improving processes, strengthening operating models, leading cross-functional initiatives, building organizational momentum, and helping stalled initiatives move forward.
We help organizations build technology operations that are scalable, measurable, and centered on the people they serve. Our work spans technology operating models, IT service management, employee support, knowledge management, digital workplace strategy, platform optimization, governance, performance measurement, vendor strategy, and hands-on workflow improvement.
We help mission-driven organizations strengthen governance, operations, technology, fundraising infrastructure, partnerships, and the organizational foundation required to advance their mission. Engagements frequently include board governance, strategic planning, sponsorship and business development, executive transitions, vendor management, policy development, and practical improvements to everyday operations.
The right engagement depends on what the organization needs to continue making progress. We may advise leaders, assess current operations, facilitate planning and decision-making, lead a transformation or major initiative, manage a complex implementation, or work alongside a team to deliver sustainable improvements.
Many engagements include facilitated workshops that help leaders and teams surface expertise, build alignment, make decisions, clarify ownership, and leave with practical next steps. They are designed as working sessions—not presentations—and create momentum long after the meeting ends.
We partner primarily with mid-sized businesses and mission-driven nonprofits at meaningful moments of growth, change, modernization, or transition. Our engagements often begin with a CIO, CTO, CEO, COO, Executive Director, or Board Chair who needs experienced perspective and practical help moving a critical priority forward.
We also work with larger organizations when the challenge, scope, and working relationship are the right fit. We remain industry-agnostic and primarily serve U.S.-based clients, working remotely or in person as the engagement requires.
We begin by listening. We ask thoughtful questions before recommending solutions, seek out the expertise already present within the organization, and work with leaders and teams to understand what is preventing progress.
We do not believe leadership requires having every answer. It requires asking better questions, building trust, creating clarity, and giving capable people the conditions they need to succeed. Our recommendations are practical, collaborative, and grounded in execution.
We stay involved through implementation when the work requires it, focus on solutions the organization can sustain, and measure success by outcomes—not presentations.
You’ll get thoughtful questions before recommendations
You’ll hear honest advice—even when it’s difficult
You’ll always know who’s responsible for what comes next
We’ll build capability, not dependence
We’ll stay engaged until your organization can continue making progress on its own
We define success by what remains after an engagement ends. The organization should have greater clarity, stronger leadership, healthier operations, and more confidence in its ability to continue making progress.
Successful work does not create unnecessary dependence on Lorenz Advisory Group. It gives leaders and teams the structure, tools, and confidence to continue making progress after we step away. The measure is not how much advice we provided; it is whether the organization is better equipped to fulfill its purpose.
Joshua D. Lorenz is the Principal Operator of Lorenz Advisory Group. He partners with organizations to strengthen leadership, operations, governance, and technology, helping leaders bring clarity to complexity, align people around a shared direction, and turn strategy into meaningful progress.
Over more than 15 years, Joshua has led distributed teams, supported thousands of employees, guided enterprise transformation initiatives, and worked alongside business and nonprofit leaders through periods of growth, modernization, and change. His experience spans enterprise consulting, technology operations, organizational transformation, and nonprofit executive and board leadership.
Joshua founded Lorenz Advisory Group on a simple belief: organizations deserve more than recommendations—they deserve an experienced partner who stays engaged until meaningful progress becomes reality. Every engagement is grounded in curiosity, accountability, practical leadership, and disciplined execution, with a focus on building stronger organizations rather than long-term dependence.s turn strategy into progress through practical leadership, stronger operations, and disciplined execution.
Whether you're navigating organizational change, modernizing operations, or simply looking for a sounding board, I'd welcome the opportunity to start the conversation.