Ecosystem strategy for the people doing the invisible work.
Because the most important work in your ecosystem happens when the right people are finally in the same room.
You're building something that's never existed before.
You know your entrepreneurial ecosystem better than anyone. You've been building relationships, brokering conversations, and holding things together for years — often without a clear map, adequate resources, or enough people who truly understand what that work costs.
I help entrepreneurship supporters, conveners, and community builders build their local ecosystem with clarity, generosity, and a genuine commitment to moving things forward. My services are designed for the people doing this work together, because ecosystems don't change when one person figures it out alone.
First, we diagnose and understand. Then we build.
The Discovery Call is a free 20-minute conversation to make sure your ecosystem challenges and my approach are genuinely aligned.
Anika is an ecosystem builder’s ecosystem builder, a storyteller’s storyteller, and a curious, kind human who genuinely cares about all those around her. She’s also one of the field’s leading champions of storytelling. For years, she has documented, elevated, and connected the experiences of ecosystem builders around the world, giving voice to work that is essential yet largely invisible.
Andy Stoll
ESHIP Alliance
How we work together
Step 1: Ecosystem Roadmap Session
The organizations that should be collaborating are operating in silos. While entrepreneurs can't find the support that exists, the stakeholders that should help them navigate it are pulling in different directions. Moving a whole ecosystem forward is not something one person can figure out alone.
The Ecosystem Roadmap Session is a structured 90-minute conversation that brings three to five of your key ecosystem stakeholders into the room together.
Before we meet, each participant completes a brief intake so we arrive prepared. Together, we surface what's working, what isn't, and where your collective energy is best spent.
Within ten days, you receive your Ecosystem Brief: a written strategic document you can share with your board, present to funders, or use as the foundation for your next planning cycle.
From there, you can take the brief and run with it. Or you can move into Step 2, with the Roadmap Session fee credited toward the full engagement.
What's included:
- Pre-session intake for all participants
- 90-minute multi-stakeholder Ecosystem Roadmap Session
- Ecosystem Brief delivered within ten days
- Follow-up email with immediate next steps
Investment: $950;
This is a pilot price while I test this offering. Once my process is validated and fine-tuned, the price will increase.
The Roadmap Session fee is credited toward the Ecosystem Intensive.
Schedule a free 20-minute fit call. We'll make sure your ecosystem challenges and my approach are genuinely aligned. If we're a good match, I'll walk you through exactly what to expect from the Roadmap Session and how to bring your coalition into the process. If we're not, I'll do my best to point you in the right direction.
Step 2: Ecosystem Intensive
You've had the conversation and you know what needs to change, theoretically. The Ecosystem Brief from your Roadmap Session is sitting on your desk, and everyone who was in that room walked away energized. Now comes the hard part: turning that clarity into something your coalition can actually execute.
The Ecosystem Intensive is a done-for-you engagement built directly from your Ecosystem Brief. I do the strategic and communications work so your coalition doesn't have to figure out how to produce it alongside everything else on your plates.
You come out of it with a 12-month coalition roadmap, a convening sequence your team can run, and the written narrative assets that make your work legible to the people who need to fund and support it.
Available only to coalitions that have completed the Ecosystem Roadmap Session.
Anika is a true star in the entrepreneurial ecosystem building world! The key to her success is her passion and dedication to helping people and communities. She had a tremendous impact on the Shenandoah Valley by bringing together entrepreneurs, ecosystem partners, and even a national conference!
Peirce MacGill
Harrisonburg Economic Development
What I can help with
- Surfacing what's actually blocking collaboration
- Building shared direction across organizations with different mandates
- Keeping your coalition accountable to the commitments they make to each other
- Helping you tell the story of this work in language that moves funders and city leaders
This is not for you if:
- You're looking for a one-time retreat with no follow-through
- You want a consultant who hands you a report and disappears
- Your coalition isn't ready to have honest conversations about what's not working
- You need someone to do the relationship work for you rather than with you
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