I’ve spent my career removing barriers — to opportunity, growth, and impact.
The work has worn different titles over the years, but it’s always been one thing: helping people and organizations turn what they’ve built into something larger and more lasting.
Elizabeth Wilson Clark
It started in government, writing policy for Governor L. Douglas Wilder’s history-making campaign. Then, for seventeen years as Chief Strategy Officer of Royall & Company (now EAB), I helped build a small firm into the category leader in higher-education enrollment management — pioneering approaches that widened college access for underserved students — and earned co-inventor status on all five of its digital-method patent applications.
Since then I’ve taken that discipline directly inside mission-driven organizations — serving as a nonprofit Chief Development Officer and Chief Communications Officer, and as a fractional Chief Marketing Officer, across research, education, and youth and athletics organizations. As a fundraiser, I’ve raised more than $2.6M since 2023 for the organizations I’ve advised, spanning research, education, environmental, animal welfare, and women’s health.
The throughline never changed: fall in love with a mission, then go find whatever stands between it and the people it’s meant to reach. Today that instinct shows up in three kinds of work.
One idea, three kinds of work.
Founders & CEOs
Turning decades of expertise into durable assets — the IP, pricing, and systems that make a company more valuable and easier to run.
How I work with founders →Nonprofits & foundations
Helping missions grow and boards lead. As board president of The Strength Initiative, I’ve raised more than $2.6M since 2023 for the organizations I’ve advised.
How I help missions →College families
Guiding students through admissions from the inside — a frequent NACAC speaker and presenter at the national College Board Forum.
How I help families →Wherever you’re starting from, I’d like to hear about it.
Founders, mission-driven leaders, and families navigating college are all welcome — tell me where you’re trying to go.
Start a conversation or email elizabeth@wilsonclark.net