Clarity
Alignment

Momentum

Impact

About Vitric

CLARITY FOR LEADERS. ALIGNMENT FOR TEAMS. MOMENTUM FOR THE MISSION.

Vitric Advisors is a boutique strategy and advisory firm that partners with philanthropic foundations, high-net-worth individuals, collaboratives, and public–private initiatives. We show up for leaders at the moments that matter most: new roles, emerging opportunities, major transitions, and high-stakes work that demands clear thinking and decisive action.

The challenges we’re drawn to don’t have easy answers. They sit at the intersection of ambition and complexity, where the path forward isn’t obvious and the stakes are high. That’s exactly where we do our best work.

We help organizations move from complexity to coherence—shaping bold visions, aligning stakeholders, and building the structures that turn ambitious ideas into real results.

What We Do

Vitric Advisors helps leaders navigate complex moments with clarity, candor, and collective alignment. Our work spans advising, strategy development, and hands-on activation — ensuring bold ideas become shared direction and real results.

Advising & Leadership Support

Leaders at pivotal moments need more than a sounding board; they need a trusted thought partner who will engage honestly, ask hard questions, and help them move forward with confidence. This is the heart of our advising work.

We offer strategic counsel and candid partnership for leaders navigating ambiguity, transition, or high-stakes decisions. Whether you’re stepping into a new role, rethinking your organization’s direction, or working through a challenge that doesn’t have an obvious answer, we help you think clearly and lead with purpose. Services include:

+ Strategy Advising
+ Executive Coaching
+ Organizational Assessment & Development
+ Thought Partnership for New Executives

Strategy & Facilitation

Complex challenges rarely get solved in a single meeting, but the right process can unlock clarity, alignment, and momentum that sticks. We design and lead custom engagements that bring structure to ambiguity and turn diverse perspectives into shared direction.

Our facilitation and strategy work is built for high-stakes moments: when stakeholders are misaligned, when a vision needs sharpening, or when a coalition needs a foundation to build from. We don’t just run sessions; we design experiences that produce decisions, shared language, and a clear path forward. Services include:

+ Strategic Planning
+ High-Stakes & Multi-Stakeholder Facilitation
+ Coalition & Collaborative Design

Activation & Implementation

Strategy only matters if it moves. When organizations are ready to shift from planning to doing, we provide the hands-on support needed to build real momentum, helping teams develop the structure, systems, and leadership capacity to deliver.

This practice is especially valuable during transitions: when a new initiative is launching, a leadership gap needs to be filled, or an organization is scaling faster than its infrastructure. We step in as trusted partners, not outside consultants, and work alongside your team until the work is yours. Services include:

+ Fractional & Transitional Leadership
+ Management Consulting
+ Talent Search & Leadership Hiring
+ Operational Design & Implementation Support

Our Work

Latest Clients

Our Team

Vitric Advisors is built on a simple conviction: the best work happens when the right people are in the room. Rather than maintaining a large generalist staff, we operate through a curated network of trusted collaborators—strategists, facilitators, researchers, and specialists—who are exceptional at what they do and deeply aligned with how we work.

This model is intentional. It means every engagement is staffed for fit, not just availability. When you work with Vitric, you get precisely the expertise your challenge requires, whether that’s deep facilitation, evaluation support, communications strategy, or operational implementation, without the bureaucracy of a large firm or the risk of generic solutions.

What holds our network together isn’t just skill. It’s a shared commitment to clarity, candor, and delivering work that actually matters.

Daniel Cohn
President & CEO
Vitric Advisors

Afi Tengue
Managing Director
Vitric Advisors

Anna Wickstrom
Operations Manager
Vitric Advisors

Geneva Lim
Administrative Coordinator
Vitric Advisors

Christina Bolden
Emboldened Enterprises

Rachel Reichlin
Health Justice Partners

Daniel (Dan) Cohn founded Vitric Advisors to do the work he’s spent his career preparing for: helping leaders navigate complexity with clarity, candor, and a compelling path forward. He brings a pragmatic, systems-oriented lens to strategy, organizational design, and coalition-building with a track record of turning ambitious ideas into real-world results.

Before founding Vitric, Dan served as Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer of the Mt. Sinai Health Foundation, where he founded the Lead Safe Cleveland Coalition—a 500-member public–private partnership—and co-led efforts to raise and deploy more than $120 million for community health and safety. During the COVID-19 pandemic, he co-directed Cleveland’s $20+ million COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund and received commendation from Ohio Governor Mike DeWine for his leadership in increasing vaccination rates among vulnerable populations.

Dan’s background spans philanthropy, public policy, coalition-building, and executive leadership. His academic work includes public health, ethics, and public affairs. Outside of Vitric, he owns and operates Collected Home, an interior design studio and styling consultancy and happily shares his life with his extremely sweet—and extremely needy—dog, Lily.

Afi Tengue brings a rare combination of strategic rigor and operational fluency to her work at Vitric Advisors. She moves seamlessly between big-picture thinking and hands-on execution, synthesizing complex input, aligning diverse stakeholders, and turning strategy into the practical tools and structures organizations need to move forward.

Over the course of her career, Afi has worked across the philanthropic ecosystem as a consultant, executive leader, funder, and intermediary, advising foundations, nonprofits, collaboratives, and academic institutions on strategy, program design, evaluation, and organizational development. She has held senior roles at JustFund, Giving Compass, and Reading Partners Seattle, and earlier in her career was a consultant with FSG and held roles at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Afi’s work is grounded in a deep commitment to children, families, and communities and is shaped by a values-driven approach that emphasizes thoughtful analysis, candid dialogue, and practical action.

Geneva (Gen) Lim is Administrative Coordinator with Vitric Advisors, where she brings the operational steadiness and attention to detail that keeps the firm running at its best. With several years of experience in business operations, she has supported owners and leaders across a range of industries: identifying opportunities to make workflows more efficient, processes more effective, and teams better able to focus on the work that matters most.

Gen’s academic background in Tourism and Hospitality Management reflects a natural orientation toward service, attentiveness, and care: qualities that show up in everything she does. She is someone who notices what others miss and takes quiet pride in making complex things feel simple.

Outside of work, Gen is a proud and devoted mother who treasures time with her family. She stays active through gym workouts and Pilates, and finds connection and purpose through her church fellowship, a community that reflects her values both in and out of the workplace.

Anna Wickstrom is Operations Manager with Vitric Advisors, where she serves as the operational backbone of the firm. She oversees essential operations, administrative, and financial functions and does so with a distinctive combination of thoughtful coordination, elegant organization, and a deeply human approach to getting things done.

Anna has a knack for anticipating what a team needs before they know they need it. Her work creates the conditions for everyone around her to do their best: clearing complexity, maintaining clarity, and ensuring nothing falls through the cracks.

Outside of work, Anna recharges by exploring trails, getting lost in books, and creating art.

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