Good Influence helps leaders see the possibilities clearly, face what stands in the way, and build the path from shared ambition to meaningful change.

We work across the nonprofit, philanthropic, and public sectors with mission-driven leaders at consequential moments: when a new leader is taking the helm; an experienced CEO is confronting growth or change; a team needs to find its footing; or an ambitious idea needs a path from here to there.

Good Influence began with Ama Anane, a strategist and storyteller who built the firm around curiosity, creativity, and a deep respect for the people closest to the mission. Ama has led complex engagements for foundations, coalitions, nonprofits, and public institutions—helping them listen more closely, think more boldly, and tell more honest and compelling stories. Today, her creative work has moved increasingly toward television and film, while she remains Good Influence’s founder and creative compass.

Joan Sullivan Anane now leads the firm’s consulting work. She knows organizations from the inside: she has built them, led them, grown them, redesigned them, and carried them through uncertainty. Drawing on 30 years of nonprofit, civic, and philanthropic leadership, Joan advises executives, develops strategy, strengthens teams, designs organizations and programs, builds practical systems, facilitates difficult conversations, and helps leaders move important work from idea through implementation.

Ama and Joan bring different tenors to the work, but share a belief that the strongest organizations are built with courage, imagination, discipline, and deep respect for the people they serve. Good Influence does not hover at the edge of the work. We step inside it—with its history, personalities, politics, pressures, and promise—and stay until conversation becomes decision, decision becomes action, and the work begins to change what is possible.