Governance, innovation, and strategy for mission-led organizations.
I’m Hadassah Damien, and I help nonprofits, foundations, startups, and public-interest teams build their governance and capacity to adapt to change, work impactfully, and use AI and technology responsibly without losing sight of what they’re there to do. Learn what I do and how I consult here.
I also make a podcast on career and life changes, teach about money, and generally use design thinking to help purpose-driven people make discerned decisions in uncertainty. Here’s my short work history, and this is a wide and wild career story and cv.
Get in touch at hd [at] hadassahdamien.com, or book 30 minutes to chat if you want to consider working together.
15+ years working inside mission-led, self-organizing, enterprise innovation labs, and public-interest organizations as a strategist, researcher, coach, and facilitator has given me perspective on how meaningful work gets done, what transformation requires, and where people get stuck.
I now work with organizations on:
- AI governance and policy [even if you’re meh on AI, you need this]
- Innovation programs for tech-based services, progressive policies, and economic justice
- Organizational governance in horizontal and democratic workplaces
- Team and leadership coaching
- Cohort trainings on money
Read more about working with me here.
I started Femmetech as a blog in 2012 as a queer femme technologist and history researcher learning my way into the tech industry. “Femtech” has since become an industry term, but to me this name still means something else: a queer approach to technology means balancing the importance of democratizing access to technology and its benefits with applied digital security, limiting surveillance, and discernment about who’s making decisions.