Welcome to Safe Space Strategies
At Safe Space Strategies, we walk alongside mission-driven leaders (nonprofits, social justice and equity advocates, and legacy-minded family businesses) offering strategies that honor both purpose and process.
Our work is guided by the S.O.W. Method™: Strategy, Operations, and Well-Being, ensuring that growth is not only achievable but also sustainable and deeply aligned with your values.
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We believe that lasting impact begins with intention. That’s why our approach is centered in deep listening, legacy visioning, and actionable strategy tailored to your goals, community context, and capacity.
Whether you need to clarify your vision, strengthen your systems, or support the people doing the work, we help leaders move from scattered to strategic.
Our services include:
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Strategy → Strategic Planning & Program Design, Legacy-Centered Frameworks
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Operations → Marketing, Messaging & Brand Development, Systems & Workflow Design
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Well-Being → Relationship Management, Stakeholder Engagement, and Leadership Support
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More than consultants, we are co-strategists ... invested in your mission, attuned to your rhythms, and committed to walking with you from vision to victory. Through our Signature Programs like Get Clients Now!®, Good Trouble Collaborators, Seeds to Your Strategy, Evelyn’s Vanity, Write the Vision: The Program Builder, and Purpose-Driven Convenings™, we offer both structure and soul: helping organizations grow with integrity, grounded strategy, and care that lasts.
Our Legacy is Our Map
Legacy is the through-line of my life. It began long before I was old enough to name it.
My grandmother, Evelyn G. Anderson, and my mother, Gayle Alexis Smith Lacy, co-founded Alexis Temporaries, Inc. in Washington, D.C. during the 1980s. Mother and Daughter, partnered in creation. ​I can still see myself as a child in those spaces of home-business work... sitting in innocent awe, surrounded by the quiet hum of purpose. I didn’t yet understand the depth of their intention, or the elegance hidden in the incorporation of a dream that carried my name. But I felt it. It was legacy in motion. God is amazing. ​That was my first model of business as calling: faith and family bound together through structure and strategy.
And then there was my father, Carlton K. Thompson, whose entrepreneurial vision gave form and fire to that foundation. He was the first example I ever saw of "money in movement". ​
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