Our Approach Old Tim Ferland May 7, 2024

WAAC
Our Approach

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As we uncover and meet the needs of our clients, our approach is grounded in a set of Core Values that guide our work:
Who We Serve

Access & Accountability. As a boutique firm, we limit and stagger our engagements providing direct access to leadership with a personal touch and accountability to our client’s values.

Boldness & Bravery. Based in Oakland, California, we sit on the ancestral land of the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe and embody the diversity, cultural expression, and activism of our city boldly and bravely working toward equity and justice.

Excellence & Expertise. We strive for excellence with a dynamic core team and expandable capacity through expert collaborators with knowledge and passion to bolster social change.

Integrity & Intention. We roll up our sleeves and guide our partners through intentional processes, from start to finish, with the utmost integrity every step of the way.

Transparency & Trust. We get to know and meet our clients where they are, building trust, maintaining transparency, and working to strengthen their team and community impact.

You build it. We’ll BOOST it.

We honor clients and communities; respecting the relationships, infrastructure and culture that have been built. We strive to add strategic value, increasing capacity and creating positive, lasting impact by:
Acquisition & Development :

Maximizing existing organizational and community assets infusing fresh energy and innovative ideas Elevating organizations and communities to new heights
  • Maximizing existing organizational and community assets  
  • Infusing fresh energy and innovative ideas
  • Elevating organizations and communities to new heights
Launching Pad

We seek to understand so we can serve

starting engagements by learning so we can deliver…

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