Leaders and organizations thrive when they have the space to pause, reflect, and reconnect with what matters most. Marcia A. Coné Consulting offers a steady, thoughtful partnership that helps you clarify your vision, navigate complexity with confidence, and move forward in ways that honor and operationalize your values. Through strategic advising, thought partnership, and facilitative leadership, Marcia supports purposeful progress—rooted in clarity, integrity, and deep alignment.

 

Meet Marcia

Marcia brings more than 25 years of experience partnering with nonprofit, philanthropic, and for‑profit organizations. She has held executive roles, taught in academic settings, and served as an advisor, fellow, mentor, champion across multiple institutions—supporting leaders and organizations navigating growth, change and complexity.

 

As the founding CEO of the Women’s Fund of Rhode Island, she guided the organization’s growth into an independent 501(c)(3) and helped advance meaningful policy change on behalf of Rhode Islanders. Since then, she has partnered with more than 100 corporate, nonprofit, and philanthropic organizations across size, mission, and stage.

 

She is known for her deep listening, thoughtful, incisive questions, and steady, systems- oriented approach—that supports clarity, confidence, and connection.

 

A Social Scientist at the Core

At her core, Marcia is a social scientist and consultant who helps organizations navigate complexity, transition, and growth. Drawing on rigorous research, evaluation, and adult learning principles, she partners with leaders and teams to make sense of what’s happening, clarify what matters most, and move confidently toward what’s next.

 

Her work focuses on moments of inflection—when organizations need to adapt, rethink established approaches or build new capabilities. Marcia bridges theory and practice to support learning, unlearning, and practical decision‑making, translating insight into action that drives sustainable change at the individual, team, and organizational levels.

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Marcia holds a PhD and an MSW from the Boston College Graduate School of Social Work. Her consulting approach is grounded in applied research, systems thinking, and a deep understanding of human behavior, enabling clients to align strategy, learning, and evaluation with real‑world conditions.