Aylin Bell
Fundraising, Strategic Planning, Sales + Revenue Growth
With 20+ years in nonprofit leadership, Aylin helps organizations grow earned revenue, secure funding, and build the strategy to scale their mission.
Hire AylinYour Partner in How
- Business plans that guide your decisions and team
- Leadership retreats, meetings, and learning events designed so the group gets where it needs to go, with everyone engaged in getting there
- Ambitious, cross-functional projects with no obvious owner, carried through to implementation
- Managing organizational change, including restructuring, leadership transitions, and getting misaligned teams moving again
What People Say about Aylin’s Work
I’ve worked with a lot of smart people, but Aylin is unusual in that she’s equally good at the thinking and the doing. She was my partner on some of our most ambitious work. She helped grow WestEd’s school and district services significantly and led our first agency-wide strategic plan. She takes on the big, complicated projects and gets them done, and she’s just easy to work with while she does it: direct, calm, and completely trustworthy.
— Catherine Walcott, Chief Strategy and Development Officer, WestEd
I had the privilege of working with Aylin for nearly 5 years in a variety of contexts, and I recommend her without reservation to any organization navigating complex change. She is remarkably self-directed, able to take an open-ended mandate and carry it forward with clarity and momentum. What distinguishes her is how she does this in partnership with others: she brings people into the work, builds genuine trust across teams, and elevates the thinking of everyone around her. She is skilled at translating tangled problems into language executives can act on, and she stays resourceful and composed even when the path ahead is uncertain. Any team would be fortunate to have her.
— Ursula Wright, Chief Strategy Officer, Eckerd Connects (formerly Senior Vice President, WestEd)
Why Helia LOVES Aylin
Aylin is a doer extraordinaire! Helia loves people who jump in and get the work done, and Helia COO Libby Fischer Connell especially loves a doer that is a fan of a strategic plan. We love anyone who looks at the big picture and then gets to work!
Aylin finds joy + ease in
I’m happiest in the ocean, and try to surf, swim, or boogie board any chance I get! I also love figure drawing and acrylic painting, trying to let my right brain take over.