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Strategy. Design. Implementation.

Find the real problem.
Build the real fix.

You have something worth building. We bring the strategy, program design, human-centered AI workflows, and hands-on support to move it forward, without adding everything to your plate.

Book a discovery call Which kind of help?

For entrepreneurs, small business owners, and leaders of small nonprofits, community organizations, and education ventures. Most clients have a small team, or no team.

What we do

Six kinds of help, with hands-on work built in.

Designed on purpose.

Small teams.
Meaningful ambitions.

Human-centered AI

AI workflows built
around your people.

We set up AI that takes repeat work off your team’s plate, in the tools you already use, with your voice and your rules written in. Your team learns to use it and makes the calls. Gina runs her own businesses on these workflows every week.

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  • MarketingDrafts that sound like you, from emails to newsletters.
  • SalesOutreach, follow-up, and call prep, approved by a person.
  • ProductivityWeekly briefs, meeting notes into to-dos, recurring reports.
  • Team hubsOne shared place for how your team works.
  • Team trainingHands-on practice with your own work.

Build-for-you packages

Done for you,
sized for a small team.

For owners who do everything themselves and have a hard time keeping up. Pick a package, and we build it with you, then hand it over working or keep it running. Every package is costed in a one-page scope note before you commit.

One-job AI setup

You get One AI helper for one job you repeat, like inquiry replies and follow-ups, in your voice.

Best for Owners answering the same questions all day

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AI workflow starter

You get Two or three AI workflows that hand off to each other, plus hands-on training for your team.

Best for Small nonprofits and small teams

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Website build

You get A small, fast website in your voice, about five pages, with forms that feed your follow-up.

Best for Founders and owners who need a site that works

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Social media and email setup

You get A posting calendar, a month of posts scheduled ahead, and an email list with a welcome email.

Best for Owners who mean to post and never get to it

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AI team build

You get A small team of named AI helpers, each with its own lane, and a shared hub to run them.

Best for Teams where everyone uses AI differently

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Owner’s command center

You get Planning, calendar, and follow-through helpers for one owner, with work and personal kept apart.

Best for Solo owners juggling everything

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Build and manage

You get We keep what we built running each month: updates, posts, email, and a short report.

Best for Owners who would rather hand off the keeping-up

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How we work

Two ways to work
with StrideForward.

Bring us in for one defined project, or as a fractional partner a few hours a week. Either way, it starts with a thirty-minute conversation with Gina.

01 · Project

One defined piece of work, start to finish.

Who it is for
Teams with a clear need and a date that matters: a launch, a new season, a second location, a board meeting.
How it works
A fixed scope, a timeline, and a fixed fee, all set in a one-page scope note before you commit.
What you leave with
The finished work and the materials to run it, in your hands.
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02 · Fractional (embedded)

A senior partner inside your team, a few hours a week.

Who it is for
Owners and leaders who need ongoing help with growth, programs, or operations before they are ready to hire for it.
How it works
Agreed monthly priorities, set hours inside your team, regular check-ins, and a review every quarter, for a monthly fee set by scope.
What you leave with
Work that moves every week, plus the systems and materials to keep it moving.
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Building your own skills rather than hiring help? NextReady Studio runs the workshops and coaching.

The six services

The next step shouldn’t
be another thing you carry.

What each service covers and what the work can include. Every one comes with hands-on help, plus AI workflows where they save your team time.

CLARIFY

Market research and positioning

Find out who buys, who uses, and who funds, what each one needs, and where you fit, before you launch or reprice.

The work can includeCustomer interviews, market scans, buyer and funder mapping, and offer positioning.

CLARIFY

Customer experience design

Map each step from your customer’s side, find where people drop off, and redesign the moments that matter most.

The work can includeExperience maps, service blueprints, listening sessions, and onboarding and follow-up design.

BUILD

Program development

Turn expertise, a grant deliverable, or an early idea into a program people can use, then test it with a small first group.

The work can includeProgram structure, learning pathways, materials, and a pilot plan.

BUILD

New revenue services and products

Shape a new service, product, or revenue line and test it with real customers before you commit.

The work can includeOffer and package design, pricing and business-model design, and a small market test.

CONNECT

Business development and sales

Find the partners and buyers that fit, shape an offer they can say yes to, and run the outreach with you.

The work can includeProspect research, outreach sequences, proposals, and a weekly pipeline review.

DELIVER

AI workflows and automation

Set up AI assistants, scheduled briefs, and follow-up systems that take repeat work off your team, with people making the calls.

The work can includeAI assistants with your voice and rules, scheduled briefs, CRM and follow-up automations, team hubs, and training.

Explore services and ways to work together ↗

Sound familiar?

Four places small teams
get stuck.

Most clients arrive with one of these. You do not need to know which service fits; the first conversation sorts that out.

I know something needs to change, but I keep solving symptoms.

We help you name the real problem and the people it affects, then decide what deserves your time first.

Market research and positioning ↗
I have expertise people would pay for. I do not have a program.

We turn what you know into a program, workshop series, or service people can use, then pilot it with a small first group.

Program development ↗
Every sale still runs through me, and follow-up keeps slipping.

We map the customers and partners that fit, shape the offer, and set up follow-up that happens on time.

Business development and sales ↗
The plan is clear. Nobody has time to do it.

We take on defined pieces of the work alongside your team, and set up AI workflows that take repeat tasks off everyone’s plate.

AI workflows and hands-on help ↗

How a first call goes

Thirty minutes. No preparation. A next step either way.

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  1. 01Pick a time that works.

    Gina’s live calendar, Tuesday to Thursday, shown in your time zone. Three short questions when you book.

  2. 02Talk through what you are trying to make possible.

    You bring the situation. We find the real problem together, using the four places small teams get stuck.

  3. 03Leave with one clear next step.

    If it is a fit, a one-page scope note within two business days (see an example). If it is not, a recommendation you can use anyway.

How the work moves

Test it small.
Build it right.

A focused project or a fractional partnership. Either way, we agree on the problem, the scope, and what useful progress looks like before the work begins.

  1. 01

    Find the starting point.

    Listen, ask better questions, and look at what’s already working. Get specific about the need and the people it affects.

  2. 02

    Shape a workable solution.

    Make the idea tangible. Define the offer, build the pieces, and test the assumptions before committing to a bigger rollout.

  3. 03

    Put it into practice.

    Support delivery, learn from what happens, and refine. Leave you with materials, decisions, and next steps you can use.

Why work with Gina

I have built what you are building.
I know where it gets hard.

Gina Wilt, founder of StrideForward, smiling in a pink room

Gina Wilt

Founder · EdD, MBA

Most of my career has been spent inside the work: designing programs, selling them, and running the systems behind them. That is what I bring to your team, as a thinking partner and a working partner.

  • More than twenty years building learning programs and education ventures, from the special education classroom and instructional coaching to teacher-preparation faculty.
  • Led curriculum as an associate vice president for an online university.
  • Directed and scaled a market-facing professional learning business inside a large public university, building partnerships and sales with school systems and national education organizations.
  • Helped HIKI Education in Hawaiʻi make its professional learning easy for school leaders to understand and contract, with a playbook and workflow systems the team uses to run it.
  • Shaped a dual-enrollment strategy for an arts-and-humanities education organization, giving it a path to offer college credit to high school students.
  • Currently the fractional partnerships and business development manager for an early-learning company.
  • I run my own businesses on the AI workflows and systems I set up for clients: voice and brand guides every draft follows, planning briefs twice a week, outreach and follow-up playbooks, shared team hubs, and the booking, email, and CRM behind them.
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Work like yours

Three snapshots
of the work.

Situation, what we built, what changed. Organizations are described rather than named unless they have said yes to being named.

A college of education at a large public university

Making a workforce portfolio legible to outside buyers.

Situation
Learning, credentials, consulting, research, and events had grown up separately. Districts, employers, and partners could not see how the pieces fit or where to start.
What we built
A connected offering and capability strategy: audience-specific offers, pathways between them, and the market intelligence and financial logic behind each.
What changed
One portfolio that external partners could read, with clear entry points and a shared language across teams.

HIKI Education · Hawaiʻi

Positioning place-based professional learning for schools.

Situation
Strong, culturally grounded programs and a fishpond site, but no clear way for principals and district leaders to understand or contract the professional learning.
What we built
A school-buyer strategy, a soft-launch website, professional-learning packages, a scoping-call-to-proposal path, an operating playbook, and pitch materials for funders and partners.
What changed
School leaders can now see what is offered, who it is for, and how to begin. The team has a playbook to run it.

An early-learning media startup

Building the evidence base and partnership plan for a new product.

Situation
A founder with a product for four- to six-year-olds and strong instincts, but no structured evidence or partnership approach to bring to schools and families.
What we built
A research brief connecting the product to learning science, a pilot plan across parents, homeschool, and classroom settings, and a partnership development approach.
What changed
Product decisions now have a Now, Next, Later logic tied to evidence, and partner conversations start from a clear story.

In their words

“Gina has a gift for taking complex, heart-centered work and translating it into a clear market presence. She simplified our core offerings and built the tangible tools we needed to actually grow. The engagement felt structured yet fluid, and honored the Hawaiian values our organization is grounded in, like aloha and pilina.”
Kai MeadDirector, HIKI Education
“Gina did not just consult, she built alongside us. She provided the business development framework and high-leverage assets we needed to go to market with confidence, and she translated our cultural mission into a clear, actionable strategic plan.”
Dr. Kapono CiottiPresident, Pacific American Foundation
“Gina is an excellent thought partner and collaborator. She asks intelligent, insightful questions, assimilates large amounts of information quickly, and is extremely responsive, able to adjust her plans in response to realities on the ground. My colleagues and I have been consistently impressed with the quality, depth, and thoughtfulness of her work.”
Caitlin Ballotta RajagopalanExecutive Director, an arts-and-humanities education organization
“Dr. Wilt is one of the most impressive educational leaders and innovators I have ever met. She is a tremendous collaborator with a rare blend of deep pedagogical expertise and technical savvy. Gina takes incredible pride in the quality of her work, and partnering with her is both exhilarating and fun.”
Dr. Andrew SheanChief Academic Officer, an online university

Want to see how this applies to your situation? That is what the first call is for.

Prefer to start on your own?

Map your customer’s experience before you fix it.

The free Customer Experience Blueprint Starter Kit walks you through the moments your customers move through and where the experience breaks down. Use it alone, or bring it to the call.

Get the free starter kit

A dedicated education offering

Looking for Professional Learning?

Explore educator-focused learning, coaching, and program support. This work has its own dedicated page within the StrideForward practice.

See Professional Learning

Facilitated learning, coaching, and induction for K–12 educators.

Common questions

Questions people ask before they reach out.

Short answers about who we work with and how the work starts. If yours is not here, ask.

Who does StrideForward work with?

Entrepreneurs, small business owners, and leaders of small nonprofits and community organizations, plus education startups, schools, and learning ventures that need evidence, pilots, programs, and partnerships. Most clients have a small team, or no team, and need work done rather than a report.

What kind of work do you take on?

Six kinds: market research and positioning, program development, new revenue services and products, customer experience design, business development and sales, and human-centered AI workflows and automation. We work as a defined project or as a fractional partner inside your team.

What does fractional mean?

A fractional partner works inside your team for set hours each month on agreed priorities, for a monthly fee. You get senior help with growth, programs, or operations before you are ready to hire for it, and we review the scope every quarter.

Do you help small teams use AI?

Yes, and it is a central part of the work. We set up human-centered AI workflows for marketing, sales, planning, and team hubs, in the tools you already use, and train your team to use them with their own work. People stay in charge of the decisions that matter.

Do you advise, or do you do the work?

Both. We think the problem through with you, then build the pieces: research, program structures, materials, pilots, outreach, and the systems behind them.

What happens on a discovery call?

Thirty minutes on video. You describe what you are trying to make possible and what is in the way; we work out together which kind of help fits, if any. You leave with one clear next step. If it is a fit, Gina sends a one-page scope note within two business days.

How does a project start, and how are fees set?

With a conversation about your goals and constraints. We then propose scope, timeline, responsibilities, and a fee, so you know what is included before you commit.

How is StrideForward different from NextReady Studio and Thrive Vibes?

All three are GMW Group brands. StrideForward does consulting and design work for your organization. NextReady Studio teaches practical skills through workshops and coaching. Thrive Vibes offers entrepreneurial experiences, community, and learning travel.

Can you train my team on everyday work skills?

For professional learning built around your team’s goals and practice, yes. That starts with a discovery call. For ready-made practical skills workshops, NextReady Studio, a sister brand, runs scheduled public dates and private sessions for small teams.

Where are you based?

Phoenix, Arizona. We work with clients in person and remotely.

Your next move

What are you trying
to make possible?

Thirty minutes with Gina, no preparation, and one clear next step whether or not we work together.

You’ll talk with Gina WiltFounder, StrideForward · EdD, MBA

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