Research & Field Learning
Field scans, landscape analyses, needs assessments, and interviews that help organizations understand unfamiliar issues and changing conditions.
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Strategic Thought Partnership
Long-term partnership that helps leaders interpret new information, navigate emerging questions, and adapt strategy as their work and operating environment evolves.
Synthesis & Strategic Insight
Analysis that brings together research and stakeholder perspectives to surface patterns, tensions, and implications leaders can use.
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Facilitation & Engagement
Thoughtfully designed interviews, focus groups, retreats, convenings, and strategic conversations that make room for candor, deep insight, and multiple perspectives.
Evaluation & Learning
Practical, learning-centered evaluation that helps organizations understand what is working, what is changing, and how their strategies can evolve over time.
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How I Help
Meet Nadia
I’m Nadia H. Tonova, founder and strategic advisor at NHT Consulting. For more than two decades, I’ve worked across the nonprofit and philanthropic sectors—as a national nonprofit leader and as an advisor, facilitator, evaluator, and trusted thought partner.
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I’m energized by complex questions and unfamiliar territory: learning quickly, listening across perspectives, finding connections others may not see, and translating what emerges into clear strategic direction. I’m particularly drawn to work that strengthens fields and networks, supports community-centered approaches, and builds the conditions for long-term change.
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At the heart of my work is a genuine care for communities. I believe the people closest to an issue hold knowledge essential to understanding it. Whether I’m conducting research, facilitating a conversation, or helping shape and evaluate strategy, I create processes that listen deeply and make community knowledge and lived experience integral to the work.
Clients Bring Me In When...
They are exploring a new issue or field
They need to hear meaningfully from stakeholders or communities
A strategy, program, or portfolio needs to evolve
A complicated conversation requires trusted facilitation
They have accumulated information but cannot yet see the full story
They need an outside thought partner who can learn quickly and connect ideas
What Clients Value
“Nadia is a fantastic partner for our team and the foundation. Her work has spanned research, interviews, strategy development, facilitation, program design, and report review. She is professional, kind, brilliant, and is someone I always trust in her connections with our portfolio partners. Her work has helped us sharpen our grantmaking investments and our learning for ongoing partnerships.”
Andrew Brower, Program Officer, WKKF
"Working with Nadia Tonova is like gaining a strategic partner who sees both your organization’s potential and its deeper purpose. She brings a rare blend of clarity, compassion, and rigor, guiding leaders through challenges and helping them imagine bold futures by supporting them to make thoughtful, strategic choices. "
Rima Meroueh, Director, National Network for Arab American Communities