In New York City and around the globe, we work with organizations who want to see their results last in the long-term.
In New York City and around the globe, we work with organizations who want to see their results last in the long-term.
Elle DiLorenzo, Founder and Lead Advisor
Elle DiLorenzo is a global strategy advisor, design thinker, and program management expert with over 26 years of experience building, running, and optimizing international programs and organizations. She founded Enduring Impact on a premise that has held up across her entire career: organizations that design for longevity from the start achieve better outcomes, sustain them longer, and use fewer resources doing it.
What makes her work distinctive is her cross-sector fluency and ability to help clients navigate issues from multiple essential angles.
This approach reveals answers to problems that pure strategy consulting tends to miss.
What she does
Elle works with globally focused organizations at inflection points: launching new initiatives, rethinking what isn't working, and building the capacity to sustain progress after an engagement ends.Her engagements draw on three interconnected disciplines:
- Strategic advisory: Helping organizations clarify their direction, align their resources, and make decisions that hold up over time
- Program design and management: Structuring programs to be operational, adaptive, and measurable from the outset
- Design thinking facilitation: Bringing participatory, human-centered methods to the challenge of building durable solutions with and for the people they serve
These aren't separate services so much as lenses she applies together, calibrated to what each client actually needs.
Experience
A seasoned senior management strategist, Elle led multinational operations at Booz Allen Hamilton, where she served as Country Director in Baku, Azerbaijan, overseeing a subject matter expert team supporting a $300M+ U.S. government public health program across more than 10 countries. She later managed the firm's International Development and Cooperation (IDC) Division in the United States. She served as a Human-Centered Design Specialist for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), facilitating a multi-stakeholder design process for the South America Wildlife Enforcement Network (SudWEN) that brought together 50+ national and international actors to co-develop strategic priorities and governance structures. She has worked with Interpol's Criminal Analysis Sub-Directorate in Lyon, conducted research at the Center for Terrorism and Intelligence Studies (CETIS) in New York, and served as a Peace Corps Volunteer and later a researcher in Russia.
Her engagements span governments, international institutions, the private sector, and civil society across Azerbaijan, France, Indonesia, South America, and the United States, with subject matter ranging from international security and public health to workforce development, women's empowerment, and sustainable development programming.
Teaching and facilitation
Elle is an Adjunct Professor at Mercy University, where she leads capstone research courses on global challenges and serves as faculty advisor for the university's Model United Nations program. She has also guest lectured at Columbia University on design thinking for global affairs and taught undergraduate courses on international management and export promotion marketing at the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT). She is an experienced design thinking facilitator, having led workshops and sessions across academic, nonprofit, and practitioner communities, including as the founder of the NYC Sustained Global Impact Community of Practice, an interdisciplinary forum for peer learning and cross-sector problem solving that ran from 2016 to 2020.
Credentials
Elle obtained a master's degree in international policy studies from the Monterey Institute of International Studies (MIIS) and a bachelor's degree in international relations from Boston University. She holds Project Management Professional (PMP) and Change Management Advanced Practitioner (CMAP) certifications from PMI and the Georgetown University McDonough School of Business, respectively. She is a member of Business Fights Poverty's Global Expert Network and the GLG Expert Network and is active in New York's global development and social impact community.
Elle DiLorenzo, Founder and Lead Advisor
Elle DiLorenzo is a global strategy advisor, design thinker, and program management expert with over 26 years of experience building, running, and optimizing international programs and organizations. She founded Enduring Impact on a premise that has held up across her entire career: organizations that design for longevity from the start achieve better outcomes, sustain them longer, and use fewer resources doing it.
What makes her work distinctive is her cross-sector fluency and ability to help clients navigate issues from multiple essential angles.
This approach reveals answers to problems that pure strategy consulting tends to miss.
What she does
Elle works with globally focused organizations at inflection points: launching new initiatives, rethinking what isn't working, and building the capacity to sustain progress after an engagement ends.Her engagements draw on three interconnected disciplines:
- Strategic advisory: Helping organizations clarify their direction, align their resources, and make decisions that hold up over time
- Program design and management: Structuring programs to be operational, adaptive, and measurable from the outset
- Design thinking facilitation: Bringing participatory, human-centered methods to the challenge of building durable solutions with and for the people they serve
These aren't separate services so much as lenses she applies together, calibrated to what each client actually needs.
Experience
A seasoned senior management strategist, Elle led multinational operations at Booz Allen Hamilton, where she served as Country Director in Baku, Azerbaijan, overseeing a subject matter expert team supporting a $300M+ U.S. government public health program across more than 10 countries. She later managed the firm's International Development and Cooperation (IDC) Division in the United States. She served as a Human-Centered Design Specialist for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), facilitating a multi-stakeholder design process for the South America Wildlife Enforcement Network (SudWEN) that brought together 50+ national and international actors to co-develop strategic priorities and governance structures. She has worked with Interpol's Criminal Analysis Sub-Directorate in Lyon, conducted research at the Center for Terrorism and Intelligence Studies (CETIS) in New York, and served as a Peace Corps Volunteer and later a researcher in Russia.
Her engagements span governments, international institutions, the private sector, and civil society across Azerbaijan, France, Indonesia, South America, and the United States, with subject matter ranging from international security and public health to workforce development, women's empowerment, and sustainable development programming.
Teaching and facilitation
Elle is an Adjunct Professor at Mercy University, where she leads capstone research courses on global challenges and serves as faculty advisor for the university's Model United Nations program. She has also guest lectured at Columbia University on design thinking for global affairs and taught undergraduate courses on international management and export promotion marketing at the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT). She is an experienced design thinking facilitator, having led workshops and sessions across academic, nonprofit, and practitioner communities, including as the founder of the NYC Sustained Global Impact Community of Practice, an interdisciplinary forum for peer learning and cross-sector problem solving that ran from 2016 to 2020.
Credentials
Elle obtained a master's degree in international policy studies from the Monterey Institute of International Studies (MIIS) and a bachelor's degree in international relations from Boston University. She holds Project Management Professional (PMP) and Change Management Advanced Practitioner (CMAP) certifications from PMI and the Georgetown University McDonough School of Business, respectively. She is a member of Business Fights Poverty's Global Expert Network and the GLG Expert Network and is active in New York's global development and social impact community.
