Consultant Profile: Organizational Maven Tavia Stewart
With over two decades of experience founding, building, and sustaining community-arts nonprofits, Tavia brings a rare blend of operational rigor and creative strategy to our team. Her deep expertise in nonprofit infrastructure, strategy, accounting, branding, and website development strengthens our ability to support mission-driven organizations with both vision and implementation.
Our clients now have access to Tavia’s expertise in:
Organizational Infrastructure — One Tavia’s her life-long goals is to truly put the human in human resources. From HR systems and staffing structures to administrative workflows, Tavia helps build strong, human-centered internal operations. She has a keen ability to zoom out and see the big picture and also ensure compliance. Her work includes employee manual review and development, onboarding and offboarding processes, performance reviews, and more.
New Nonprofit Formation — Supporting clients in the process of incorporating and launching brand new nonprofits. Tavia provides hands-on guidance through entity formation, insurance procurement, infrastructure setup, and early-stage planning that lays the groundwork for long-term success.
Accounting & Financial Management — Tavia loves to demystify the numbers and brings a big-picture lens to financial operations. She offers support with bookkeeping, budgeting, audit prep, 990 preparation, and financial systems aligned with GAAP standards.
Project Management — Leading complex, mission-driven projects from concept to completion with a focus on clear timelines, team coordination, budget oversight, and measurable outcomes.
Website Development & Project Management — Overseeing the design and build of websites from start to finish, ensuring they are visually compelling, user-friendly, and aligned with organizational goals and brand identity.
Mission-Driven Space Creative Direction, Design & Remodel Oversight — Managing space transformations that reflect culture, functionality, and intention. If you have a community arts space or youth center, Tavia can bring in her dream team of architects, designers, artists, and partner non-profits and manage your build and beautifuation—start to finish.
Tavia is truly a Jill of all trades—an operations powerhouse and a creative visionary in equal measure. As a founder and longtime COO, she’s led organizations through growth, transition, and transformation with steadiness, care, and heart. Her ability to see both the big picture and the day-to-day details makes her an invaluable partner to mission-focused teams.
We’re so excited for the ways Tavia’s leadership will help our clients build resilient structures and thrive from the inside out.
Contact us to learn more about how Collective Agency can support your next phase of growth.
