About Us

Lovelace Consulting Services, Inc. (Lovelace CSI) was founded in 2020 by Tonya Lovelace, a national leader with nearly 40 years of experience in leadership, strategy, movement building, and social change. Built on the belief that leadership is both strategic and human, Lovelace CSI works across sectors to support growth that is sustainable, equitable, and aligned with values.

Vision + Mission + Values + Philosophy + Success

Vision

We envision an inclusive world where people, organizations, and systems are valued and treated with dignity and are free from all forms of violence.

Mission

We provide high-level consulting, needs assessment, facilitation, executive coaching, technical assistance, and training to individuals, organizations, and systems seeking social, political, and professional transformation.

Values

We offer a space to gain profound clarity, soul-centered growth, navigate complexity, align strategy with purpose, and achieve sustainable growth through insight-driven leadership and organizational support.

Philosophy

Our work is rooted in co-creation, deep listening, and shared leadership. We believe transformation happens not through top-down models, but through honest dialogue, intuitive insight, and values-aligned collaboration. We are strategic and intuitive, grounded in authentic lived experience.

Success

Our success lies not only in the strategies we implement but in the leaders and organizations that continue to grow and innovate after our collaboration. The impact of our coaching and thought partnership is shown in their transformations and refreshed courage to embrace new challenges.

Tonya Lovelace

Our Founder

Tonya Lovelace is a Leadership Strategy Consultant and former CEO with deep roots in advocacy and systems change. She has partnered with nonprofits, government agencies, grassroots movements, and coalitions to co-create actionable strategies, grow leadership capacity, and guide sustainable transformation. Tonya blends sharp strategy with
compassion and lived experience—offering clients both clarity and care.

Lovelace CSI is grounded in collaboration, insight, trust, and full-spectrum wellness, reflecting our Founder’s values. We center people and process equally, knowing that transformation is sustained when leaders feel supported, aligned, and ready to act.

Career Highlights

  • Served 18 years as Founding CEO of WOCN, Inc. – Started as a project under the National Resource Center on Domestic Violence (NRCDV) and the Pennsylvania Coalition Against Domestic Violence (PCADV) with a $150,000 budget as the single staff member. I successfully spun it off as an independent nonprofit organization with an approx. $1.5 million annual budget and multiple staff and consultants across the country, raising over $25 mill overall.
  • Served as an advisor for the NFL, Uber, and the State of NY, Governor’s Office.
  • In 2017, named in Cohort 4 of Move to End Violence, a prestigious leadership project for movement makers ending gender violence, sponsored by the Novo Foundation.
  • Featured in several media interviews with MSNBC, ESPN, Cosmopolitan, the Feminist Wire, and USA Today.
  • Chapter contributor, “Sunset: Seeking True Accountability After All of These Years” in the 2019 anthology Love with Accountability: Digging up the Roots of Childhood Sexual Abuse, and Chapter Contributor, “The Breath of Black Folk” in the 2021 anthology 2020: The Year that Changed America.

How We Help

We help leaders, organizations, systems, and government agencies create inclusive policies and environments, providing vital support to those who are frequently overlooked.

Leadership Approaches We Integrate

01.

Transformational Leadership

Helping individuals and teams access their highest values,
skills, and purpose.

02.

Social Justice Leadership

Strengthening moral clarity and inclusion by examining systems
of identity, power, and belonging.

03.

Strengths-Based Leadership

Guiding clients to lead from what works while building from
solid footing.

04.

Intersectional Leadership

Expanding impact by centering those most often left at the
margins of the margins.

05.

Aspiring Ally Leadership

Supporting clients in learning how to show up for communities
they’re not part of, from a place of humility and influence.

06.

Democratic Leadership

Shifting from control to collaboration—building power with, not over.

"I posit that breath is political. Black people are fighting for their very right to breathe. Those with the privilege of respiration without trepidation do not understand the daily struggle to simply breathe."

Let us help you create meaningful change in yourself and your organization

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