OBSIDIAN EDGE

OBSIDIAN EDGE

Sharpening Leadership, Amplifying Impact

Sharpening Leadership, Amplifying Impact

Lead with Purpose, Drive Meaningful Change

Like obsidian, known for revealing truth and driving transformation, we support leaders to reach their full potential, gain clarity, and craft solution-driven strategies. Through a holistic, earth-centered approach, we equip you with tools to amplify your capacity to drive systemic change from the inside out. Whether you're struggling with equity issues within your team, navigating the complexities of impostor syndrome, launching a new initiative, or seeking a trusted partner, we are here to support your journey.

Transformative Leadership Grounded in Justice and Healing.

Our Impact

  • 100+ Foundations 75+ Nonprofits

Partnered with over 175 mission-aligned organizations advancing racial, climate, housing, and economic justice.

  • Global Reach

Provided strategic support across the U.S., Ghana, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Barbados, and Brazil—rooted in local leadership and global solidarity.

  • Intersectional Impact

Guided frontline leaders working at the intersections of climate, housing, food sovereignty, cooperative development, and political education.

Our Services

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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

  • We coach with care and clarity. Whether you’re an 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

  • 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.

  • 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

  • Equity Driven

    Like obsidian, we help individuals and organizations cut through systemic harm and align with justice. Our strategies center collective accountability, sustainable impact, and global solidarity—drawing on ancestral wisdom to co-create a liberated future.

  • 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.

  • Just Transition

    Sustainability must include the mental, physical, and ecological health of communities. A holistic, health-focused approach supports regeneration, cooperation, and equity—creating pathways for restoration, empowerment, and collective thriving.

  • Transformative

    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 brings nearly 30 years of experience as an interdisciplinary strategist working at the intersections of race, class, gender, education, and the environment. His leadership spans nonprofit, public, philanthropic, and private sectors—advancing social equity, climate justice, and economic development across the U.S., Caribbean, and Africa. He has held key roles with Communities for a Better Environment, Climate Justice Alliance, California Environmental Justice Alliance, Rainforest Action Network, and Neighborhood Funders Group, where he supported multi-million-dollar philanthropic collaborations for policy change, housing, and sustainability.

Through program design, fundraising strategy, and transformative coaching, Nile helps organizations and individuals move from vision to action with purpose and integrity. He leads trainings on power dynamics, men’s health, and leadership grounded in accountability and care. With a focus on healing and transformation, his work integrates culturally attuned practices to cultivate inner balance, authentic relationships, and values-driven leadership.

Organizations We’ve Supported

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