Anjana Dayal de Prewitt is a strategist, bridge-builder, and catalyst who helps leaders connect organizational strategy with human experience. With more than two decades of experience across humanitarian response, peacebuilding, organizational leadership, community engagement, and cross-cultural work, Anjana brings something many leadership teams lack: a direct line of sight between what an organization intends to do and how that work is actually experienced by the people it serves. She works alongside executives and organizations to challenge assumptions, surface perspectives that may be missing from the room, build meaningful partnerships, and turn insight into action. Consulting services include:
ADVISE
Strategic counsel for leaders navigating complexity.
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Executive thought partnership
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Strategic planning & decision support
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Complex problem-solving
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Scenario development
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Stakeholder & partnership strategy
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Organizational blind-spot analysis
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Strategy-to-implementation support
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Leadership counsel during change or uncertainty
ENGAGE
Connecting organizations with the people and perspectives that matter.
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Stakeholder & community engagement
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Cross-cultural engagement
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Interfaith & intercultural dialogue
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Partnership development
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Peacebuilding & social cohesion
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Humanitarian diplomacy
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Gender equity & inclusion
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Culturally responsive organizational practice
DEVELOP
Strengthening the leaders, culture, and systems that make organizations work.
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Executive & emerging leadership development
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Organizational transformation
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Organizational culture
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Accountability & ethical decision-making
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Conflict transformation
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Difficult conversations
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Trust & relationship-building
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Change leadership
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Program & service design
INSPIRE
Speaking, storytelling & experiential learning.
A Distinct Approach
Anjana brings a perspective shaped by more than two decades of humanitarian response, peace-building, organizational leadership, community engagement, cross-cultural work, and spiritual formation.She approaches complex challenges by looking beyond strategy alone, to the people, relationships, histories, systems, and lived experiences that shape how organizations function and how change is experienced. Her work is grounded in five interconnected ways of thinking:
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See the whole - Strategy with context, perspective, and purpose.
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Put people at the center - Strategy becomes meaningful when people can see themselves in it.
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Lead through relationship - Leadership is not only about what you know. It is about what people experience from you.
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Connect across difference - Meaningful engagement requires more than communication. It requires understanding.
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Create meaning that moves people - People rarely change because they were given more information. They change when they see something differently.
The Approach: Grounded in human dignity, equity, meaning, and connection.
Anjana's perspective is shaped by a lifelong engagement with religion, spirituality, and the study and practice of faith—including her experience as a preacher alongside extensive work in diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), cross-cultural engagement, and social justice.
These experiences are not the subject of her consulting work; they are part of the foundation from which she approaches it. They have shaped her understanding of human dignity, identity, power, belonging, and the ways culture and lived experience influence how people see themselves, one another, and the systems in which they operate.
That approach informs how she listens, builds connection across difference, navigates complexity, and helps leaders and organizations create environments where people can contribute, belong, and do meaningful work.