We help companies build a better world While growing profit through values-based business strategy
At Realign Consulting, we’re showing up for a radical realignment of business and its impact on the world. Our values-based business strategies help build brands and a better world.
At Realign Consulting
We believe it’s time for our business strategies to realign with our humanity.
Our Vision
Our vision is to create a kinder, more equitable world through values-driven business strategy. People first. Systems second. Innovation third. We believe in businesses based around community and kindness. We believe business is the key to making the world a kinder place.
We work for a future where we don’t have to choose between profit and sustainability.
When you want to make more money and contribute to a kinder, more liberated world, we’re here for you.
Look, we’re not up for mincing words here…
Most business consultants suck.
Our founder, Renia Carsillo, is a veteran of the digital marketing and consulting world. She’s spent the past decade putting up with (and sometimes contributing to) some pretty shitty behavior.
All manner of professionals have been guilty of sacrificing what’s good for people for short-term profit. Values-based business strategy is often difficult to find.
In marketing, convince and convert is the finish line. And, all too often, the fallout is tremendously harmful. (Diet culture, anyone?)
We believe...
- Marketing doesn't have to be gross to be effective. Centering a values-based business strategy works.
- Sustainability, flexibility, and joy belong at the center of a growth strategy, not just as an afterthought.
- Values-driven marketing combined with data-informed decision-making creates more holistic decisions. It's both AND.
- It's possible to scale a business in way that puts people first, leaves space for life, and centers impact as well as profit.
At Realign Consulting
We put your values, sustainable growth, and a deep understanding of how your company serves the world at the center of your business strategy.
The team at Realign Consulting aligns business systems with values-driven strategy and service. We developed our processes through years of experience and education on how the privileged can contribute to collective liberation.
(Shout out to Dr. Tee Williams and the writings of Barbara J. Love for strongly influencing Renia’s understanding of how we each contribute to liberation in our own ways.)
“If business leaders are today’s vision-makers, it’s time for us to realign our success models to include both impact and profit as KPIs.”
Renia Carsillo
A Values-Based Business Strategy Means…
No more driving sales or hustling for leads.
Break up with bro marketing. Instead, honor cycles with digital systems that are flexible, predictable, and leave space for your life.
Center equity and do less harm.
Understand how many digital tactics marginalize people and create inclusive strategies instead.
Use data to understand your impact
and not as a manipulation tool. Data-informed strategies use information scale to create more empathy and connection.
Refuse to add meaningless noise to the world.
Instead, help your raving fans feel safe with content that is meaningful for them at the right time.
Make more money, in less time, while putting people first.
You don’t have to choose between a thriving business and a values-led life.
"10 years in strategy and marketing is long enough to see the ebb and flow of those who do it fast and those who do it right. Despite what you see on Instagram, the Tortoise usually wins ... Even in Search."
Renia Carsillo
To realign your business strategy means to align your...
Impact on People First
Everything we do is about people. We don’t make a hire if we can’t afford to pay fair. We don’t use fear, uncertainty, doubt, or any other form of manipulation as a marketing strategy. (This is a #NoFUDZone). We won’t take on clients who are a drain on their communities. In everything we do, people come first.
We seek to understand the IMPACT of our actions on others because we know good intentions are not enough.
Systems Second
Even the most talented people fail to produce awesome work without a system to replicate their successes. Sustainability can’t happen without good systems. We help companies implement strategies for long-term growth, not short-term hacks.
Innovations Third
Wait, third?! Yes. We’ve been around the ol’ digital trends block more than a few times. And we’re 100% confident that real innovation is only possible when people feel valued and systems make revenue fairly predictable. To innovate, we need space to fail. That space is only available after we’ve created a container of success and teamwork that offers a safe place to swim.
About the Values-Driven Team at Realign Consulting
We are a compassionate team of misfit marketers, strategists, designers, and rabble-rousers strung out all over the United States. Although we all come from different backgrounds and life experiences, our team is fiercely committed to one thing: Contributing to a kinder, more liberated future for us all.
Stephanie Veraghen is our wrangler of all the things. She has a unique vantage point in the role in which she serves where she is able to observe the behavior patterns of the team, areas of opportunity for systems and process implementation, and anticipate needs to keep projects moving with ease. She’s passionate about using her skills as a marketer, coach, and operations jedi to guide the Realign Consulting team and clients toward achieving their goals. She believes that impact-driven teams have the ability to build kinder companies based on openness, balance, and mutual trust.
Stephanie Veraghen is our wrangler of all the things. She has a unique vantage point in the role in which she serves where she is able to observe the behavior patterns of the team, areas of opportunity for systems and process implementation, and anticipate needs to keep projects moving with ease. She’s passionate about using her skills as a marketer, coach, and operations jedi to guide the Realign Consulting team and clients toward achieving their goals. She believes that impact-driven teams have the ability to build kinder companies based on openness, balance, and mutual trust.
Outside of work, you’ll find Stephanie on long walks, decorating her new home, and teaching HeartMath workshops.
Christina is our wordsmith extraordinaire. She thrives on clear communication, building connection, and making a difference in people’s lives. She is passionate about the role Realign Consulting is playing in helping businesses build community connections and making the world a kinder, more equitable place. She believes words have power, and we have a responsibility to use them wisely.
You’ll find Christina geeking out over stories of all kinds, including tales of The Shire, Narnia, the TARDIS, and a certain ’67 Impala. She also enjoys exploring the rivers and mountain trails of her Virginia hometown, taking on overly ambitious cross-stitch projects, and quoting 90s lyrics at her kids just to see their eyes roll.
Christina is our wordsmith extraordinaire. She thrives on clear communication, building connection, and making a difference in people’s lives. She is passionate about the role Realign Consulting is playing in helping businesses build community connections and making the world a kinder, more equitable place. She believes words have power, and we have a responsibility to use them wisely.
About Renia Carsillo, Our Founder
Renia is a self-described “awkward data nerd.” She struggled for years to make real connections, despite working as a top-rated trainer for the world’s largest networking organization. At business events, she would run from the whiteboard to hide behind her phone. But then, Renia began using her “data nerd” tools to figure out how to connect in real life.
You can find Renia on a sandy Florida hiking trail or with her nose stuck in a novel. While not a fan of TV, she makes an exception for The Big Bang Theory, Queen of the South, and anything by Joss Whedon. She believes in the transformational power of books. She credits Clarissa Pinkola Estes’ Women Who Run with the Wolves and Chua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart with forever changing how she views the world.
Renia is a self-described “awkward data nerd.” She struggled for years to make real connections, despite working as a top-rated trainer for the world’s largest networking organization. At business events, she would run from the whiteboard to hide behind her phone. But then, Renia began using her “data nerd” tools to figure out how to connect in real life.
Renia's superpower is pattern recognition and activating change.
She’s learned to lean into that strength to develop sustainability-minded business systems for impact-driven brands.
Facilitating Strategic Planning retreats and implementation plans with dozens of brands of all sizes and stages
Digital transformation training and change management coaching for mid-sized companies and large brands,
Design and management of multi-million dollar eCommerce projects and SEO budgets,
Social Media disengagement strategies for Instagram influencers, authors, and others looking for non-social media-based ways to drive their digital business.
In addition to spearheading Realign Consulting, Renia is currently hard at work on her next book, Marketers Make the World: How to break up with bro marketing, do better digital, and lead in a way that feels awesome. Her thoughts on business leadership have been featured in NASDAQ, Motherly, BusinessNetworking.com, and The Tampa Bay Times.
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