Elizabeth Bailey

Elizabeth helps nonprofit leaders transform and advance their organizations. Her fresh thinking and no-nonsense style comes from 25+ years of “roll-your-sleeves up” work with hundreds of nonprofits in virtually every sector and at every stage and size. She’s a highly-skilled strategist, facilitator, speaker, trainer and coach with deep expertise in nonprofit board leadership, strategic planning, fundraising and branding. Elizabeth is the founder and principal of 2B Communications, an award-winning social impact consulting and creative firm serving nonprofits worldwide.

Whether facilitating a board retreat or strategic planning process, or helping an organization retool its brand, Elizabeth brings energy and insights that help nonprofits and associations thrive. Elizabeth has led leadership training, research, strategic planning, branding and communications efforts for hundreds of hundreds of organizations.

Her talks and training sessions focus on the challenges that nonprofits commonly face and are delivered with passion, honesty and wit. By skillfully combining her knowledge of nonprofit and association trends and best practices, generational shifts, fundraising, technology, and the pitfalls that cause organizations to stumble and the cultures that help them soar, Elizabeth inspires volunteer and staff leaders and leaves them with concrete ideas to take back to their organizations.