Audaculus: Latin for audacious, bold, impertinent.
Becca Karpinski
WHO I AM: Big-picture thinker, thought-organizer, story-finder, and chaos-coordinator.
WHAT I'M BEST AT: Helping YOU define and diagnose your organization’s challenges. Stitching together disparate perspectives, data, and trends into a cohesive whole. Helping others hear their voice and see their role in the story. Converting big ideas into bite-sized steps to create change. Embedding vision into the daily work, systems and processes of an organization. Figuring out where to start.
WHAT I CARE ABOUT: Social justice and belonging, efficient use of resources, meaningful work, and building supportive workplaces.
WHAT I DO: Strategic planning. Organizational values and culture-building. Leadership, governance and organizational structure design. Diagnosing issues and creating solutions. Market and customer analysis. Business model evaluation. Speaking, presentation development, and training design. Facilitation and meeting management.
Prefer a more traditional bio? Here you are:
Becca Karpinski is a strategic thinker who specializes in getting not-for-profit and government entities organized and aligned toward a common vision. Her specialty is designing processes that engage stakeholders and embed the organization’s vision into the daily work and decisions of staff, leaders and Boards. Her projects vary from multi-month planning processes to casual thought-partner coaching, in organizations as diverse as a community foundation, a metropolitan planning authority, a political office, a member-based advocacy organization, and a preschool.
In addition, Becca spent over 20 years as the Vice President of Strategy and Organizational Effectiveness for Planned Parenthood of the Pacific Southwest which she helped grow from a $25M budget and ~200 employees to a $115M budget and ~800 employees, providing over 250,000 patient visits at 20 health centers and through telehealth. Navigating safety-net healthcare as a sexual-health-focused social justice organization through the Affordable Care Act, California budget woes, increasing political polarization, and a pandemic taught her how to move forward productively despite mind-blowing complexity, uncertainty and challenges.
Her main role was shepherding the organization’s strategic and operational planning processes and creating and guiding the Planned Parenthood Experience, an organization-wide model for providing excellent patient and staff experiences.
But the bulk of her time was spent on “other duties as assigned,” diagnosing and solving problems as varied as developing and rolling out leadership competencies, creating an Equity and Belonging function, designing culture change content to reduce abortion stigma, ensuring a robust Board of Directors, building effective internal communication, and redesigning (multiple times) the organization’s business model to meet the current environment and ensure financial sustainability. Her proudest achievement is conceiving, launching and running Sex Ed To-Go, a free online sex education tool with over 15,000 users and 45,000 enrollments to ensure all young people have access to foundational sex education and teachers have supportive resources.
Prior to joining Planned Parenthood, Becca worked as a management consultant to large, for-profit companies, focused primarily in pharmaceuticals and managed care. She has a BA from Brown University in political science, a Masters in Bioethics from University of Pennsylvania, a lot of hobbies, and multiple bookshelves of books she wants to read.