
LET’S REALIGN STRATEGY, STRUCTURE & VISION TOGETHER
Leading a mission-driven organization in today’s landscape comes with real challenges—limited capacity, shifting priorities, and the weight of building systems that serve both people and purpose. Whether you’re launching something new, navigating internal transitions, or preparing to scale for long-term impact, we’re here to support you.
Sh8peshift Your Life: Technical Services for Teams, Organizations & Change Leaders offers tailored support rooted in equity, strategy, and organizational health. Our approach bridges the gap between vision and execution, helping leaders and teams gain clarity, strengthen internal alignment, and build the capacity needed to thrive.






70%
but few have access to support systems that center healing, culture, and sustainability, especially in BIPOC-led organizations.
1 in 5
nonprofits feel confident in their strategic plan…and even fewer have culturally responsive frameworks that reflect their community’s lived experience or address internal equity challenges.
65%
of staff cite misalignment between values and operations…yet most TA providers lack the cultural fluency to help organizations bridge that gap in a way that honors trust, identity, and collective power.
SERVICES
For over two decades, Sh8peshift Your Life has supported 75+ nonprofits and multi million-dollar startups with culturally competent technical assistance in strategy, organizational development, and leadership training.
From grassroots orgs to national collaboratives, we help teams align values with structure—offering custom roadmaps, staff trainings, and strategic planning that center trust, equity, and innovation. Whether you’re building from the ground up or reimagining what’s next, we walk with you every step of the way.
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Let’s stretch beyond survival. We help you reconnect with your why, reimagine what’s possible, and clarify a vision that’s bold, grounded, and future-forward. Together, we’ll build step-by-step strategies rooted in values, sustainability, and purpose.
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Whether you’re a nonprofit, for-profit, hybrid, or cooperative—we help you reimagine how the money moves. From earned revenue strategies to sustainable funding models, we work with you to align your financial flow with your values, mission, and long-term vision.
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Change starts from within—and so does sustainability. We support you in strengthening the internal systems, policies, and practices that shape your day-to-day. From values-aligned operations to team culture and accountability structures, we help you build an organization that’s not just functional, but flourishing.
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Build structure with soul. Whether you’re strengthening your board, redefining roles, or exploring shared or distributed leadership models—we help you create governance that reflects your values and uplifts your people.
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We don’t do performative equity—we embody it. Our approach supports you in weaving justice into the fabric of your organization through intentional policies, decision-making practices, and power-sharing models. Whether it’s healing harm, uplifting frontline voices, or reimagining equity frameworks that go beyond diversity checklists—we meet you where you are and walk with you toward real change that’s relational, accountable, and sustainable.
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Leadership isn’t a title—it’s a practice. We support new and seasoned leaders in deepening their confidence, emotional intelligence, and adaptive capacity. Through coaching, cohort facilitation, and role-specific training, we help folks lead with more clarity, courage, and care.
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Conflict is not the enemy—silence is. We offer real tools and facilitated processes to move through hard conversations with integrity. Our approach builds the emotional and cultural skills teams need to navigate tension, unpack power dynamics, and repair harm in ways that foster learning, trust, and accountability. We help you transform breakdowns into breakthroughs.
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We believe well people build well institutions. We integrate somatics, ancestral practices, trauma-informed care, and rest as part of our technical assistance offerings. Whether it’s movement breaks during planning retreats or building wellness into your org culture—our work centers collective care, not just productivity.
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Let’s get you out of grind mode and into your why. We co-design and facilitate in-person and virtual retreats for vision alignment, team healing, and creative planning. Whether you’re onboarding a new team, closing a chapter, or reimagining what’s next—our retreats make space for reflection, laughter, real talk, and aligned action.
Your Point Person, Vibe Curator & Shift Strategist
Zakiya Harris aka Sh8peshifter is a dynamic futurist, educator, and entrepreneur whose work seamlessly merges creativity, spirituality, and social impact. Hailing from Oakland, CA, this thought leader and polymath has left a lasting mark on the creative landscape. Her work explores the intersections of culture, cosmology and community, reflecting a deep commitment to support purpose-driven creatives in the reclamation of their inherent gifts to catalyze the collective consciousness. Zakiya is the co-founder of multiple award-winning Bay Area nonprofits including Impact Hub Oakland, Grind for the Green and Hack the Hood. She produced the first solar-powered hip-hop music festival in the San Francisco Bay Area, released two solo music projects, and is an inductee in the Bay Area Hip Hop Archives. The author of Sh8peshift Your Life: a creatives guide to personal transformation, Zakiya is a sought after creative coach and founder of Sh8peshift Society Collective, a thriving community that offers Masterclasses, Sound Healing and Wellness Modalities to purpose-driven creatives across the globe. Currently, she serves as the Lead Vision and Strategy Steward of BlacSpace Cooperative, a capacity building organization for Black Led Cultural Arts Anchors in Oakland. In 2023, she traveled to Osogbo, Nigeria were she became initiated as a priest of IFA in the West African Spiritual tradition of Isese. Awards and recognitions include the Ella Baker Center Future Leaders Award, Culture Bank West Oakland Fellow and YBCA 100. She currently splits her time between Mexico City and Oakland, CA. In the third space, you can find her near a body of water, reading Octavia Butler, chilling with her daughter.
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