Scutchfield & Co Advisory
Stewarding What Matters. Shaping What Comes Next.
Scutchfield & Co works alongside leaders and organizations navigating consequential transitions — particularly when the path forward requires new thinking, relationships, and ways of working.
We help make sense of what is changing, illuminate possibilities beyond familiar boundaries, and bring together the people, perspectives, and resources needed to move things forward.
Through advisory partnerships, strategic convenings, and ecosystem development, we create the conditions for more adaptive organizations, resilient communities, and collective action around the future we want to shape.
A Different Kind of Leadership for a Changing World
Today’s leaders are navigating continuous disruption — from emerging technologies and shifting stakeholder expectations to changing economic, social, and environmental realities.
In this landscape, leadership is no longer simply about having the right answer or following an established roadmap. It requires the capacity to:
Make sense of complexity and recognize the patterns shaping the larger landscape
Discern what to preserve, evolve, or release as circumstances change
Imagine new possibilities when familiar models no longer fit
Lead through relationships by engaging perspectives, capabilities, and resources beyond the boundaries of one organization
Experiment and adapt by taking purposeful steps that create learning and momentum
Steward with care by considering the wider consequences of decisions for people, communities, and the future
Stewardship Is Our North Star
There is no predetermined playbook. Scutchfield & Co. Advisory works alongside people as thought partners, connectors, challengers, and catalysts; bringing curiosity, pattern recognition, strategic perspective, and relationships across a wide range of worlds.
Our work moves through four interconnected practices:
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What are you being called to steward?
We make sense of the larger landscape—your aspirations, values, responsibilities, tensions, opportunities, and the context surrounding them.
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What could become possible?
We challenge assumptions, connect disparate ideas, imagine alternative futures, and surface opportunities that may not yet be obvious.
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Who and what needs to come together?
We identify people, perspectives, knowledge, places, and resources that can strengthen the work—and cultivate relationships where there is genuine mutual value.
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What wants to happen next?
We translate insight into decisions, experiments, partnerships, and actions that generate learning and meaningful forward movement.
For People Holding Something Consequential
Scutchfield & Co. Advisory works with thoughtful, future-facing leaders who recognize that something meaningful has been placed in their hands, and sense that familiar approaches may not carry it into its next chapter.
A founder or executive evolving an organization, business model, or vision.
A university or institutional leader reimagining how their organization serves people and the world.
An investor or philanthropist considering how their resources can contribute to meaningful change.
A place-based leader cultivating a more regenerative and resilient local ecosystem.
A visionary seeking the right form, relationships, and resources for an emerging idea.
Different contexts,
but a common threshold:
Something is ready to evolve, and the path forward has not yet been fully mapped
How We Can Work Together
Engagements are scoped to each organization, let’s start with a conversation.
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Ongoing thought partnership for leaders navigating important decisions, emerging ideas, or change. Through twice-monthly conversations and support between sessions, Elizabeth helps you find clarity, see possibilities, and take purposeful next steps.
The relationship may include:
Strategic sensemaking and candid decision support
Feedback on key ideas, plans, and documents
Relevant frameworks, resources, and emerging insights
Thoughtful introductions where there is mutual value
Practical next steps that create learning and momentum
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For leaders exploring a new opportunity that depends on people and organizations beyond their own. We listen across the landscape, identify where interests align, and shape a practical path toward partnership.
The work may include:
Listening tours and interviews with stakeholders
Mapping the people, organizations, and resources shaping the ecosystem
Identifying patterns, gaps, and emerging opportunities
Developing a partnership strategy and priority relationships
Supporting early conversations and next steps with potential collaborators
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For ambitious ideas that need people across organizations to build something together. We help shape the direction, assemble the right team and partners, and guide the work from shared vision toward action.
The work may include:
Defining the initiative’s purpose, goals, and path forward
Bringing together contributors with complementary expertise and resources
Leading a task force, community of practice, or collaborative initiative
Aligning stakeholders around decisions, roles, and commitments
Coordinating the work through launch and sustaining momentum
Where the Work and Inquiry Gather
Four questions across four interconnected dimensions.
These bodies of work crosses sectors by design. These are not separate practice areas, but interconnected fields where experience, relationships, and curiosity converge.
Some are rooted in lived experience and network-driven knowledge creation. Others are emerging inquiries being explored through research, conversations, field learning, and collaboration. Together, they ask how people, resources, places, and institutions can be stewarded toward a more thriving future.
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What capacities do people need to navigate complexity, lead through disruption, and contribute meaningfully to a changing world?
When familiar models no longer fit, leaders need more than technical expertise. They need the capacity to make sense of change, challenge assumptions, engage new perspectives, experiment, and adapt.
We design leadership programs, learning experiences, and facilitated conversations that help people expand their toolkit and move into what comes next with greater clarity, confidence, and connection.
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How might places become living laboratories for human, ecological, and economic flourishing?
We explore how travel, hospitality, education, agriculture, entrepreneurship, and investment can work together to strengthen the places and communities in which they operate.
This includes learning journeys, regenerative tourism, place-based ventures, and the ecosystems surrounding them—drawing upon relationships with hosts, universities, entrepreneurs, and community leaders across Africa, the Americas, and beyond.
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How might institutions and networks collaborate across traditional boundaries to address challenges no organization can solve alone?
Institutions are being asked to respond to new technologies, changing stakeholder expectations, shifting global relationships, and increasingly interconnected challenges.
We help leaders understand the wider landscape, identify aligned partners, cultivate relationships across sectors and geographies, and create the collaborative architecture needed to move from individual vision toward collective action.
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How might we steward wealth, leadership, and influence in ways that strengthen generations to come?
This emerging inquiry explores how rising leaders and families navigate the purpose, identity, responsibility, and possibility that accompany wealth and influence.
Informed by Elizabeth’s own stewardship journey and conversations with next-generation leaders, family offices, philanthropists, and advisors, the work considers how families can prepare for meaningful roles in governance, investing, philanthropy, and legacy—while complementing the expertise of their existing advisors.
Meet The Ecosystem
Different perspectives. Complementary gifts. Shared possibility.
Scutchfield & Co is shaped by relationships with people working across disciplines, sectors, geographies, and generations.
The ecosystem includes people who help make sense of a changing world, build new approaches, steward resources, and create the conditions for meaningful collaboration. They do not represent a formal membership network. They are trusted thinkers, practitioners, and partners whose perspectives continually expand what is possible to imagine and create.
Sensemakers, Researchers & Thought Leaders
People who help interpret change, question assumptions, and bring knowledge, context, and emerging ideas into view.
Builders, Innovators & Systems Shapers
Entrepreneurs, institutional innovators, community leaders, and social innovators translating ambitious ideas into new models, organizations, and ways of working.
Funders, Investors & Resource Stewards
People exploring how capital, influence, philanthropy, and other resources can be deployed with intention and long-term responsibility.
Conveners, Guides, Facilitators & Hosts
People who create the conditions for reflection, learning, relationship, transformation, and meaningful collective experience.
Stories & Perspectives
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“Elizabeth became a trusted extension of our international partnerships team, helping us strengthen a key partnership in Rwanda and develop innovative cross-cultural programs. She has a rare ability to see what’s possible, bring diverse stakeholders together, and translate ambitious ideas into thoughtful, practical initiatives with lasting impact.”
Director of Global Partnerships & Initiatives at University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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“Elizabeth has a rare ability to convene people across backgrounds and geographies around shared purpose. She creates spaces rooted in curiosity, openness, and trust, where people can show up authentically—and where meaningful connection can evolve into deeper understanding, collaboration, and ultimately, collective impact.”
Dane Johnson
Creative Systems Lead at Canvas -
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"Elizabeth has become a trusted strategic thought partner to our team at Global Engagement Institute. She has brought her strengths to identify opportunities for growth, partnerships, and innovation that align with our mission and values as a forward-thinking organization focused on impact and education abroad."
Founder & CEO at Global Engagement Institute
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“Elizabeth has been a valued advisor to Redoubt Coffee and our Biochar initiative, bringing deep listening, global perspective, and a rare ability to connect people and ideas across sectors. She brings clarity to complexity, builds partnerships rooted in trust, and helps shape new possibilities around shared purpose.”
Co-Founder & Managing Partner at Redoubt Coffee
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"Elizabeth brings a rare combination of deep curiosity, perceptiveness, and breadth of experience. Her engagement with regenerative placemaking, leadership development, education, philanthropy, and emerging responses to the polycrisis gives her an unusual capacity to recognize and support work that is on the growing edge—work that may not yet fit neatly within conventional organizational or funding structures."
Founder & Co-Director of Alliance for a Viable Future
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“Elizabeth has a unique ability to bring together the right people, ideas, and institutions around a shared purpose. She combines strategic thinking and trusted relationship-building with outstanding operational execution—turning overlooked opportunities into thoughtfully designed engagements, productive connections, and lasting partnerships across sectors, disciplines, and countries.”
Director of Innovation and Ventures at Montana State University-Bozeman
What Are You Stewarding?
Perhaps you are standing at an inflection point.
Perhaps you are carrying an idea that has not yet found its form.
Perhaps you have resources, relationships, influence, or an institution that could contribute to something meaningful—but are not yet sure how.
Or perhaps you are simply asking a bigger question about what this next chapter of your leadership is meant to be in service of.
These are the conversations we love.