OBSIDIAN EDGE
Building Resilience, Fostering Sustainability, Advancing Wellness, Leadership, and Impact.
Coaching with Heart to Drive Meaningful Change
"Your life is a constellation of agreements. What you nourish, grows. What you avoid, festers. What you sharpen, cuts through."
Like obsidian—a stone of clarity, protection, and transformation—we help leaders uncover truth, align with purpose, and design solution-driven strategies that endure.
Through a holistic, earth-centered approach, we equip changemakers with the tools, insight, and courage to expand their capacity and drive systemic change from the inside out.
Whether you’re navigating equity challenges within your team, building strategic partnerships, confronting impostor syndrome, launching a new initiative, or simply seeking a trusted ally on your leadership journey—we walk beside you.
Together, we cut through the noise, nurture discernment, and cultivate the conditions where clarity, accountability, and transformation can take root.
Transformative Leadership Grounded in Justice and Healing.
Our Process
Our Services
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Description text goes hereWe treat evaluation as ritual. Our assessments are not just metrics—they’re mirrors. We help you measure what matters: alignment, impact, and healing. Through a culturally rooted and data-informed process, we surface equity gaps, movement tensions, and opportunities for transformation. The goal: strategic clarity with soul.
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Your structure reflects your spirit. Whether building out nonprofit governance (C3/C4), shifting internal culture, or evolving leadership flow, we help you root your systems in justice. Designed for mighty teams with lean capacity, we offer tools to elevate collective rhythm, trust, and long-term sustainability.
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We don’t do cookie-cutter plans—we co-create maps for liberation. Our process bridges long-term vision with short-term alignment, translating community wisdom into action steps that adapt as the beat changes. Strategy is movement work—and we make it soulful, structured, and grounded.
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Resource work is spiritual work. We build fundraising strategies rooted in trust, reciprocity, and relationship—not scarcity or survival. We support grant writing, donor communications, and access to aligned networks—especially for BIPOC-led orgs that deserve to thrive, not hustle.
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Equity isn’t a checkbox—it’s a living practice. We offer assessments, trainings, and deep architecture to shift how power moves within your organization. We don’t just analyze bias—we dismantle it, co-designing cultures where justice is embodied at every level
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We coach with care and clarity. Whether you’re an youth, young adult, emerging leader, seasoned executive, or team navigating transition, our coaching holds space for complexity. With a foundation in somatics, spirit, and strategic grounding, we support you in leading from your purpose, not your performancescription
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Conflict is sacred when handled with care. We facilitate spaces for healing, restoration, and transformation—not avoidance. Drawing from somatics, spiritual traditions, and movement wisdom, we support organizations in navigating rupture and returning to right relationship.
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We design gatherings that feed the soul and sharpen the vision. Whether strategic retreats, trainings, or internal convenings, we create containers rooted in justice, spiritual grounding, and collective clarity. When we gather with intention, we shift what's possible.
Our Approach
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Purpose-Driven Activation
Like the sharpness of obsidian, we help individuals and organizations cut through systemic harm and align with joy and purpose. Our strategies center individual and collective accountability, sustainable impact, and global solidarity—drawing on ancestral wisdom to co-create a liberated future.
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Rooted In Resilience
Resilience and wellness are the foundation of strong people and movements. Through spiritual practice and mindfulness, we cut through barriers, build trust, and nurture relationships rooted in healing, sustainability, and collective well-being.
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Holisitic Regenerative Strategies
Sustainability must include the mental, physical, and ecological health of communities. A holistic approach supports regeneration, cooperation, and unity—creating pathways for restoration, empowerment, and collective thriving.
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Transformative Praxis
We support individuals and organizations with transformative tools to build leadership, address disruption, align with values, and foster accountability. Through reflection and collaboration, we grow resilience to navigate complexity and achieve lasting impact.
Our Founder
Nile Malloy stands at the crossroads of race, class, gender, education, and environment—an interdisciplinary strategist and cultural bridgebuilder with nearly three decades of experience turning purpose into practice. His leadership moves fluidly across nonprofit, public, philanthropic, and private sectors, advancing social equity, climate justice, and regenerative economies throughout the U.S., the Caribbean, and Africa.
From Communities for a Better Environment to the Climate Justice Alliance, from California Environmental Justice Alliance to Rainforest Action Network and Neighborhood Funders Group, Nile has helped shape multi-million-dollar collaborations that channel resources toward policy transformation, housing justice, and environmental sustainability.
Through program design, fundraising strategy, and transformative coaching, he guides organizations and individuals to move from vision to embodiment, aligning impact with integrity. His facilitation on power, masculinity, and leadership invites a deeper reckoning—with accountability, care, and the courage to transform.
Rooted in healing and ancestral wisdom, Nile weaves culturally attuned practices that cultivate inner balance, authentic relationships, and leadership grounded in equity and spirit. Beyond his professional path, his passion lives in movement and story—in dance, writing, Afrofuturism, and the sacred art of weaving the African Diaspora. A loving father, wellness advocate, and spiritual practitioner, he embodies a grounded joy that reminds us: change begins within, and ripples outward.
Organizations We’ve Supported
