
Bold Solutions for Equitable Systems
Helping mission-aligned leaders turn strategy into lasting impact across culture, capital, and community.
About Thrive Tide Partners
Bold Solutions for Equitable Systems
Thrive Tide Partners is a strategic advisory firm founded by Taneshia Nash Laird to support mission-aligned organizations in building power, clarity, and sustainability. From cultural institutions to equity-driven ventures, Thrive Tide helps leaders transform ideas into engines of innovation, impact, and community wealth.
What We Believe:
- Equity must be actionable, not aspirational
- Cultural power is economic power
- Institutions thrive through clarity, accountability, and collective vision
What We Do
Organizations call on us when they’re ready to grow with clarity, equity, and cultural power.
Outcomes We Deliver
- Stronger, more effective boards
- Increased major gifts and funding capacity
- Deeper community trust and alignment
- Clearer strategic direction
- Elevated messaging and positioning
- Forward momentum with cross-sector partners
How We Work
- VIP Days & Intensives for fast clarity
- Leadership Advising for strategic growth
- Workshops & Retreats to align and activate
- Residencies & Talks to shift mindsets
- Facilitation grounded in equity and lived experience
Signature Frameworks
Culture Core Blueprint
A strategic model for revitalizing communities through cultural institutions, cross-sector partnerships, and inclusive economic development.
Harmony in Leadership
A leadership training framework using the structure of a gospel choir to strengthen organizational alignment, shared stewardship, and values-based governance.
Select Client Work
Partnered with a cultural institution founded by a high-profile creative leader and bestselling author to guide fundraising strategy and board development in support of expanding its community-centered artistic vision by occupying a 1930s-era theater located in a historically Black cultural district.
Supporting a major American cultural institution, the second oldest of its kind in the nation, through stakeholder ecosystem mapping, strategic engagement, and the co-development of a comprehensive education and external engagement program aligned with the organization’s equity and community goals.
Let's Work Together
We’d love to hear from you. Whether you're ready for a strategic partner or exploring how to build capacity from within, we’re here to help.
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