Library Consulting

Maurini has spent her career inside academic libraries, leading teams, navigating change, and helping institutions find their path forward.


She builds a bridge between a good idea and a working organization, helping institutions plan clearly, communicate compellingly, build deliberately, align fully, and prove meaningfully. Her work spans the full arc of what it takes to move from vision to reality.

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Work with Maurini

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Maruini’s library consulting services span the full arc of what it takes to move from vision to reality.

Program & Initiative Design

Good ideas need more than good intentions. They need a design that makes them work.

  • Design high-visibility initiatives (fellowships, institutes, funds)

  • Align them with donor priorities

  • Define outcomes, structure, and storytelling

  • Create materials for advancement teams

Strategy Design

Most organizations don’t struggle to write strategy - they struggle to make it usable.

  • Turn strategic plans into actionable roadmaps

  • Clarify priorities, sequencing, and tradeoffs

  • Build decision frameworks (what do we not do?)

  • Create internal alignment across leadership teams

Strategic Facilitation & Alignment

Facilitation for High-Stakes Conversations

  • Lead retreats and workshops

  • Guide advisory boards / donor councils

  • Facilitate decision-making conversations

  • Help groups move from discussion > clarity > action

Institutional Narrative & Messaging

Tell a coherent story about messy, multifaceted work.

  • Translate strategy into compelling narratives

  • Align messaging across stakeholders (donors, faculty, staff)

  • Shape “big idea” framing for campaigns or initiatives

  • Support leadership voice (talking points, themes, positioning)

Impact & Insight Design

Assessment That Actually Drives Decisions (not just reporting)

  • Design assessment frameworks tied to strategy

  • Turn data into decisions (not dashboards that sit unused)

  • Evaluate programs and initiatives

  • Help organizations “prove” value in meaningful ways

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“If you focus on results you will never change.  If you focus on change you will get results .”

- Jack Dixon