Big vision needs a clear next move.
We help nonprofits, institutions, businesses, campaigns, and community-centered leaders turn complex challenges into focused strategy, stronger systems, and measurable action.
You know where you want to go, but need help building the path.
$50 Million through UFCF · $2 Million through PHCC · $38 Million through JSO Consulting.
Choose the challenge. We’ll help build the solution.
You do not need to know the consulting language. Start with what you are trying to strengthen, fix, launch, or grow.
Governance & Strategic Planning
Strengthen your board, direction, priorities, capacity, and long-term plan.
Higher Education & Student Engagement
Build stronger student experiences, programs, leadership, and campus engagement.
Political & Civic Strategy
Support civic initiatives, stakeholder engagement, campaign operations, and public-facing strategy.
HR, Management & Operations
Improve the people, processes, workflows, and structures behind the mission.
Brand, PR & Communications
Clarify your story, strengthen your visibility, and communicate with credibility.
Program Management & Events
Move ideas into organized programs, activations, events, and execution plans.
Speaking, Workshops & Keynotes
Bring practical leadership, strategy, community, and organizational insight to your audience.
Not sure which service fits? Tell us what is happening. We can help identify the right starting point.
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Strategy shaped by real responsibility.
Julien Serrano-O'Neil brings more than a decade of leadership experience across nonprofit management, public administration, higher education, communications, civic engagement, and community impact. JSO pairs that lived executive experience with practical consulting support designed to help leaders make clearer decisions and move the work forward.
Trusted by organizations doing the work.
We partner across nonprofit, civic, business, institutional, and community spaces to strengthen strategy, systems, visibility, and execution.
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Supporting organizational growth, communications, civic engagement, and community-centered strategy.
Different missions. Different challenges. Strategy built around what each organization actually needs.
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Insights, Strategy & Resources
Explore the latest articles, leadership insights, nonprofit strategies, and community-centered resources from The JSO Consulting Group.
Practical strategy for nonprofit excellence.
Empowering Nonprofits for Lasting Impact is a six-volume publication series by Julien Serrano-O'Neil, ACNP, and contributing authors, created to equip nonprofit leaders with practical tools for stronger leadership, programs, partnerships, strategy, and sustainability.


