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Clarus is a women-owned and women-led firm built on deep expertise, genuine collaboration, and a shared belief that the best work happens when people feel truly understood. Every member of our team brings something distinct, and together, we deliver a breadth of perspective that enriches every engagement.
Lynn founded Clarus in 2004 on a conviction that has guided the firm ever since: the most capable leaders shouldn’t have to carry the hardest work alone. For more than 20 years, she has partnered with senior executives across the public, private, and higher education and healthcare sectors, helping them develop a panoramic view of their organizations, align their leadership teams, and translate vision into strategies that hold up under the pressure of real implementation.
Leaders at every level — from state agency commissioners to university deans to corporate executives — rely on Lynn as a trusted thought partner. What distinguishes her approach is the ability to hold both the strategic and human dimensions of complex work at the same time. She listens carefully, asks the questions others aren’t asking, and brings an objectivity that’s hard to find from the inside. This combination is why so many client relationships span years, with leaders continuing to seek Lynn’s counsel as their responsibilities and organizations evolve.
Under Lynn’s leadership, Clarus has deepened its commitment to working at the intersection of organizational strategy and culture, the space where she believes transformational change actually happens. That focus has driven consistent growth in the firm’s national reach and reputation for excellence across the sectors it serves.
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Master of Public Administration
Master of Science in Health Administration
University of Oklahoma
Bachelor of Science, Economics
Kristie brings a rare combination of strategic rigor and human insight to every engagement she leads. She excels on complex, high-stakes projects that require holding strategy, operations, and organizational culture in careful balance, and she does it with a steadiness and precision that clients consistently value. Her experience spans child welfare, social services, higher education, and nonprofit organizations, giving her a cross-sector perspective that enriches every engagement.
Kristie’s particular strength is helping clients formulate outcomes-focused plans while simultaneously strengthening the organizational conditions needed to carry them out. She understands that a plan without an aligned team behind it stalls, and she works at both levels with equal skill. Her ability to navigate complexity without losing sight of the human dimensions of the work is one of the qualities that makes her an indispensable partner to the leaders she serves.
As Chief Operating Officer, Kristie also leads and manages all operational aspects of Clarus, ensuring the firm runs with the same discipline, care, and commitment to quality that it brings to client work. Her leadership of the firm’s internal operations has been central to Clarus’s continued growth and its reputation for consistent excellence in service delivery.
Birmingham-Southern College
Bachelor of Arts, Political Science
Taylor has a distinctive ability to help leaders and teams build strategies that are as visionary and aspirational as they are practical and executable. She believes that the foundation for achieving this balance is a planning process genuinely grounded in the perspectives of the people the organization serves, and she designs and facilitates stakeholder engagement processes with that conviction at the center. Her work is characterized by a careful ear, a systems-level perspective, and a talent for translating complex stakeholder input into the insights that drive alignment and action.
Taylor’s background in urban and environmental planning gives her a particularly strong foothold in community development, conservation, recreation, and place-based work. She regularly leads engagements for clients focused on land conservation, environmental stewardship, and quality-of-life and quality-of-place initiatives, and brings to that work both deep subject-matter familiarity and the facilitation skills to move diverse stakeholders toward shared outcomes.
Across all of her work at Clarus, Taylor is a key contributor to strategic planning and organizational development engagements, helping clients develop strategies that are not just clear on paper but genuinely owned by the people responsible for carrying them forward.
University of Virginia
Master of Urban and Environmental Planning
Washington & Lee University
Bachelor of Arts, Art History and English
Rachel brings an unusually broad and integrated skill set to her work, combining deep expertise in communications, civic engagement, strategic planning, and data science into an approach that is both analytically grounded and attuned to the human complexity of organizational change. She has spent more than a decade convening and facilitating diverse stakeholders around difficult, consequential issues and developing a facilitation practice that earns trust across differences and produces genuine alignment rather than surface consensus.
Her areas of expertise span substance use, mental health, healthcare, criminal justice, education, and multidisciplinary cross-agency initiatives. Rachel’s experience leading organizational development and strategy implementation for rural behavioral health system-of-care initiatives — in partnership with organizations operating at the intersection of limited resources, high need, and complex funding environments — gives her a practical understanding of what it takes to move strategy forward under real-world constraints.
Rachel's role as Multidisciplinary Team Coordinator for the Sexual Assault Kit Initiative in the Jefferson County District Attorney’s Office is a prime example of work that required exactly the combination of analytical rigor, stakeholder management, and mission-driven commitment that she brings to every Clarus engagement. Her interdisciplinary Master’s degree in Criminology with an emphasis in Data Science continues to inform the analytical depth she brings to program management, policy development, and strategic planning.
University of Pennsylvania
Master of Science, Criminology
University of Alabama
Bachelor of Arts, Communication Studies
Amanda is passionate about helping leaders amplify their effectiveness and build healthy, productive teams. A licensed therapist and board-certified coach, Amanda has a deep understanding of human behavior and motivation. This knowledge reinforces Amanda’s ability to help leaders harness individual and team strengths to achieve maximum organizational impact.
Amanda specializes in leadership coaching, team development, organizational assessments, and succession planning. She also provides strategic planning services for clients and can seamlessly connect the people side of organizational development work with the visionary, mission-driven side of strategic planning.
Amanda believes in the power of listening to employee and stakeholder perspectives as the fuel to drive engagement, alignment, growth, and the overall health and vitality of companies and organizations.
Licensed Professional Counselor
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Master of Arts, Counseling
Birmingham-Southern College
Bachelor of Science, Psychology
LaShundra is passionate about building and maintaining strong relationships and engagement with Clarus clients and among the Clarus team. LaShundra understands that behind-the-scenes aspects of the business are critical to the overall client experience, and she works to maintain the highest level of customer satisfaction.
As the chief administrative officer, LaShundra oversees company infrastructure including information technology, vendor services, and facilities management. She also leads human resources components of the company, ensuring administrative policies and procedures and operational support systems are consistent with company culture and best practice.
LaShundra’s knowledge, talents, skills, and experience provide the foundation for satisfaction of our clients and the growth, success, and sustainability of the company.
Grand Canyon University
Bachelor of Science, Business Administration
Sandrea McAlpine has extensive experience in program management, community development, and strategic planning. With a master’s degree in social work and a proven track record of creating and implementing programs in underserved communities, she has dedicated her career to addressing the needs of marginalized populations.
Previously, Sandrea served as a Case Manager with the Jefferson County Public Defender’s Office, where she worked directly with clients and families to connect them with housing, substance abuse treatment, and mental health services. As a Program Director, she led initiatives focused on community revitalization, volunteer coordination, and stakeholder engagement, utilizing qualitative data to inform and refine her strategies. Her data-driven approach ensured that programs were both impactful and responsive to the needs of the community.
Sandrea’s work is defined by her commitment to social equity and her ability to develop effective strategies that foster collaboration and drive meaningful change. Her use of qualitative insights continues to enhance her efforts in creating sustainable solutions for organizations, communities and the people they serve.
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