CEO & Lead Consultant Emma Fryer has more than a decade of experience in executive leadership and C-Suite roles in the corporate, nonprofit and political sectors. She is a certified Interim Executive Director, serves as a Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust ATLAS Consultant, and is certified as a Nonprofit Lifecycles Capacity Consultant. Previously, Emma served as Chief Strategy Officer and Interim CEO for a women-led, women-focused philanthropic foundation, where she built the advocacy and communications department from the group up and facilitated the strategy for a regional to statewide expansion. Previously, as Head of UK Marketing for a Fortune 500, top 4 global toy company, she built an international division that reversed years of sales decline and put a portfolio of 20+ brands into growth in just one year. She also founded Emblaze Communications, where she supported a variety of nonprofits and small businesses, ran a statewide political campaign, and became the crisis communications “go-to” expert for some of Arizona’s highest profile political leaders. She is an aspirational woodworker who loves the outdoors and has lived, worked, and hiked on three continents.

Kelly Fryer is founder of Fryer & Associates and now serves as an Advisor on the team. Kelly brings 20-years of consulting experience plus an extensive background in nonprofit leadership to her work with clients. Prior to her 2018 human-rights centered campaign for governor, Kelly served as CEO of Arizona’s oldest gender equity and racial justice organization, Executive Director of a statewide organization that works to elect women to public office, and National Communications Director for a worker justice organization. She started her career as an ordained minister and Asst Professor of Leadership at Luther Seminary in St. Paul, Minnesota. Kelly helped launch the nonprofit management program at the UA Eller College of Management, has served as an adjunct lecturer in the McGuire Center for Entrepreneurship, and is a Flinn-Brown Fellow.