Todd Hiestand
Translater of expert-held work into strategy and language that moves people to act.
I am a nonprofit strategist, author, and speaker with more than two decades of experience helping mission-driven organizations grow and communicate with clarity.
I co-founded and led a community-based nonprofit for 14 years, and have since served as an executive director, director of development, and communications director for national and international organizations — consulting with hundreds more along the way, guiding them through digital change and helping them build communications that actually advance their mission.
Author of The Welcoming Nonprofit and the creator of the Four Spaces of Nonprofit Engagement — a hospitality-based framework for how people come to belong to an organization. I speak regularly on brand clarity, trust, and fundraising.
Most recently, I co-founded and led Liminal, a messaging-first branding agency built for liminal spaces — the in-between moments when organizations are moving from where they are to where they want to be.
I live in the Portland, Oregon area with my wife Melanie, four sons, and a lively menagerie of goats, ducks, chickens, bunnies, dogs, cats, and other creatures.