Our Consultants
Every consultant in The Starling Collective brings something distinct. Use the categories below or search for key words to find your match.
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Rosa León Zayas Ph.D.
Dr. Rosa León Zayas is an organizational consultant, scientist, and experienced higher-education leader who helps organizations turn their commitments to access, community, and excellence into practical, sustainable action. She partners with leaders and teams to design programs, strengthen organizational culture, develop equitable and effective processes, support inclusive hiring and mentoring, facilitate meaningful community engagement, and use data to identify needs and guide decisions. Known for combining strategic vision with hands-on implementation, she creates structures that expand opportunity, strengthen collaboration, and help individuals, teams, and organizations thrive.
Megan Smith Jovanovic
Megan brings 14 years of experience in fundraising, strategy, and grant writing to the collective. A licensed attorney and Cultural Intelligence-certified facilitator, she has raised over $8.7M for clients and led organizations through major transitions. Megan’s analytical approach, equity lens, and gift for building trust make her one of the most effective strategic partners in West Michigan’s nonprofit and philanthropy communities.
Erika Thomas, MA, LMFT
Erika L. Thomas, MA, LMFT is a licensed marriage and family therapist and the founder of The Untangling Place, where she brings nervous system science and somatic practice into organizations carrying the weight of high-demand, high-stakes work. Erika's approach is trauma-informed, decolonizing, neurodiversity-affirming, and liberation-focused — helping teams move from surviving collective stress to genuinely regulating, reconnecting, and thriving together. She is the clinical mind behind G-TEP programming for frontline workers and leadership teams, and she brings that same depth of care to her work with The Starling Collective, including her collaboration with Dee on Ignite WithIN.
Dee (Deanna) Rolffs
Dee (Deanna) Rolffs is a strategist, facilitator, coach, and systems thinker who works with executive leaders at the intersection of organizational theory, leadership development, and social justice. After years in nonprofit leadership, Dee launched into entrepreneurship in 2018 and went on to found L3 Catalyst Group, where they apply anti-oppression and liberatory frameworks to help organizations move through crisis, change, and complexity toward more equitable, sustainable futures. Dee specializes in illuminating root issues, building leadership and board capacity, and guiding teams through the deep personal and collective work that real organizational transformation requires.