Asana Consulting

If you’re in Baltimore, last week felt like a whole year of I don’t even know what!

But now we’re here - a new month, a new week, and a new reminder about my workshop with Jess Gill happening this Friday Feb 6 from 12:00-1:00 at Spark Coworking - Baltimore.

This workshop is for Baltimore-area women who are entrepreneurs, freelancers, marketers, speakers and thought leaders. We’ll be sharing tangible, supportive, and actionable ways to activate the triple-powered potential in your communications, branding, and marketing efforts.

If all that sounds like the support you’ve been looking for, let’s do some lunching (BYOL) and learning together.

This event is free and in-person@and hosted by

Register at the link in our bio!
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Jess Gill and I are taking our Communications, Branding, and Marketing show on the road again, this time thanks to Monument Women's Creative Alliance!

If you're a Baltimore-based creative or entrepreneur (established or aspiring!) please join us for this Lunch & Learn at Spark Baltimore.

If you've never attended an MWCA Lunch & Learn, here's a preview:
Engaging, relaxed, enjoyable Friday afternoon vibes, with valuable learning, cool people, and snacks! Bring your lunch - because learning brains definitely deserve that fuel 💟

Friday, February 6
12:00-1:00pm
Location: Spark Baltimore
Register: Link below 👇

✍️ When communications, branding, and marketing are aligned, your message becomes clearer and more impactful.

Join Monument Women’s Creative Alliance for a Lunch and Learn with Nancy Lord and Jess Gill on Friday, February 6th, 2026 from 12 to 1 PM at Spark Baltimore.

Nancy Lord is the Founder of Asana Consulting with over 20 years of experience in communications, branding, and marketing across nonprofit, government, higher education, and social impact organizations.

Jess Gill is a communications strategist and writer with 16 years of experience helping organizations articulate who they are and why they matter, including over a decade supporting communications at Johns Hopkins University and the University System of Maryland.

In this session, attendees will learn how communications, branding, and marketing work together, gain practical strategies to clarify their message, explore tools for planning and ex*****on, and have the opportunity to ask questions directly to experienced communications leaders.

RSVP here: https://community.monument-creatives.org/events/316539

We hope you will join us!

✨✨Favorite Books of 2025✨✨

Special collection added to our Bookshop shop in time the gifts you still want to buy for your loved ones (including you!)

These are the books that taught me, inspired me, and made great companions in 2025. And two of these gems were written by authors we are lucky enough to call clients!

Browse and buy yours- use the link in our bio to visit our magical little bookshop!



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cover photo: The Pagoda in its holiday sparkle, Patterson Park, Baltimore Maryland 💟

It’s been a great experience providing marketing and PR consulting for the Maryland Lynching Memorial Project’s 8th annual conference happening this Saturday, October 26 in downtown Baltimore. Now the big day is almost here!

MLMP has lined up an inspiring day of speakers and topics. I’m so excited to hear from local, regional, and national leaders, experts, artists, and community advocates.

Join MLMP and their partners this Saturday on “the journey from truth to reconciliation.” There is so much history to learn, so many important stories to be shared, and a lot f good work underway in Maryland when it comes to truth and reconciliation focused on lynching and racial terror in our state. This conference is a exceptional opportunity to learn, bear witness, and connect.

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Saturday October 26
9:00-4:30 pm
Reginald F. Lewis Museum in downtown Baltimore
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Registration: bit.ly/MLMP-2025-Conf

Human lightbeams 💫the freedom and healing delivered by art and creativity 🦋, community love 🌬️💛, and radiant resilient spirits ✨🫶🏼 ALL of THAT was the energy at yesterday’s Healers In the Arts Festival at The Peale!

Our client author and speaker Glenda Lezeau aka The Dancing Speaker 💃🏾 moderated the “Rooted in Resilience” panel. The session flowed with so many rich insights and inspiring and supportive stories from three Baltimore social and creative entrepreneurs —Joyson Balisamore founder of Jay’s Watermelonade, Yewande Kotun Davis artist and founder of the Resolute Rose, and Elyse Preston soulful business coach and community builder and founder of Be More Connected.

Congratulations to the co-creators of yesterday’s festival: Tyron and April Harper co-founders/owners of Harp Vision and Sarah Magida artist and owner of Firefly Life Coaching. You all knocked it outta the park! 👏👏👏 Thank you 💐

Hope to see some local runner friends tomorrow morning. So excited to be out galloping to the great vibes all for the women of Marian House 💙

Waverly’s 30th Street is the Baltimore Book Festival’s one stop shop for kids’ books, local bookstores, reading nooks, kids’ activities with local authors, mama rest stops, bluebird skies, and stroller parking for all 💟 🩵

Excited to be at the launch event tonight and experience in person the fantastic energy Making Her Mark is already bringing to Baltimore! 💟🎉

So much love for this turn of events! 💟

Amy Sherald's canceled Smithsonian art show comes to Baltimore After cancelling a major exhibition of her work at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington due to concerns about censorship, artist Amy Sherald is bringing it to Baltimore instead.

The schedule is out for the 2025 Baltimore Book Festival, taking place Sept 13-14 in Waverly.

There’s something for everyone! Be sure to check out all the fun on deck for children - author events, story time, book signings and sales, and activities for kids and families. Programming for teens too! All happening on 30th Street and produced by our client Baltimore Read Aloud in partnership with Waverly Main Street.

We’ll share more about the children’s book authors and groups who will be at the Festival to make it a festive day of all things books and stories for Baltimore’s kiddos. Stay tuned!
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The wait is over… program schedule posted! Link in the bio or just jump to our website. Awesome programming by Red Emma’s, CityLit, Baltimore Read Aloud, Normals, Urban Reads, Charm City Books, The Ivy Bookshop, Science-Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association, Atomic Books, Charm City Cultural Cultivation, Peabody Heights, and the Oleander School for Negro Publishers = 90+ events, talks, workshops, conversations, and more. Let’s go!

One of my favorite days in Baltimore is coming up soon! Marian House’s 17th Annual Race to Embrace Independence! you can run or walk the 5k or do the 1 mile event. Whatever you choose, you’ll be supporting the women who transform
their own lives with the love and support of Baltimore’s Marian House, present + past + future 💎💎💎