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Meet our Founders

Christina Hachikian and Kelly Powers have worked together collaboratively for over ten years. Both successful social sector leaders, the two seasoned executives bring complementary skillets to their work. Hachikian and Powers have both been executive leaders in social impact organizations, and, most recently, have consulted various for-profit and nonprofit organizations. Hachikian has deep knowledge and experience scaling social impact organizations and focuses on finance, sustainability and impact evaluation. Powers brings a strategic operational focus to her work and specializes in program & team design, people operations, and stakeholder engagement and management.

Hachikian and Powers approach clients as partners and are grounded in authentic relationships and shared understanding from the beginning of any engagement. The duo want to know and understand who is at the table, why they are there and what inspires and motivates them to keep showing up. From there, establishing shared goals and objectives lead to rigorous project plans on which to execute. Hachikian and Powers bring their collective experiences over the past 25 years in the social sector which provide robust knowledge and expertise to clients allowing for greater, sustained impact with ease.


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    Christina Hachikian is a fractional executive working with both nonprofit and for-profit social ventures to deliver results and drive social change. She specializes in working hand in hand with leadership teams in times of transition and growth, leveraging her background in finance, entrepreneurship, and academia. She launched her consultancy in 2021 drawing upon more than 25 years of experience working in dynamic social impact environments. As a recognized thought leader, she has presented to audiences across the globe, taught classes at a world-class business school, and was recognized in Crain's Chicago List of 40 under 40 in 2019.

    Christina’s drive comes from a deep-seated belief in the power of social ventures to rectify the systems that negatively affect people’s lives. Her greatest professional fulfillment comes from engineering social impact ideas into viable business models. At the core, she is an operational leader who consistently moves ambiguous objectives to tangible results as evidenced during her career at the intersection of social entrepreneurship, academia, and commercial banking. LinkedIn


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    A passionate social justice advocate, Kelly Powers has dedicated her career to leading innovative work to positively impact people. An accomplished social entrepreneur and executive leader, Kelly has spent her career building and leading organizations in the social sector. She founded her consulting practice in 2022 and merged with Hatch Gemini in 2024. Kelly supports mission-driven organizations to advance their work through strategic operations consulting with a focus on people operations and stakeholder engagement. As a consultant she has held interim COO and VP of Operations roles where she established processes, policies and team structures for organizations navigating leadership changes and growth. 

    Prior to establishing her consulting practice, Kelly served as the inaugural Chief Operating Officer at an early education nonprofit organization where she restructured the finance and human resources functions. Before serving as COO, she was the founding executive director of an early childhood education nonprofit she co-founded in 2013. Under Kelly’s leadership, she grew the organization from an early-stage start-up to a well-established, change-maker in Chicago. Kelly’s professional background in education, operations and entrepreneurship allow her to deliver value to clients as they grow their impact. LinkedIn