Shobana Powell Consulting

What Shobana Powell Consulting does

Shobana Powell Consulting, LLC is a privately held, woman-of-color-owned professional services firm founded circa 2009–2010 by Dr. Shobana Powell, DSW, LCSW, and headquartered nominally in Sunnyvale, California. The firm delivers five core service lines — customized training, technical assistance, organizational change management, community-led participatory research, and vicarious-trauma supportive spaces — to nonprofits, government agencies, and businesses engaged in the gender-based violence and anti-human-trafficking sectors. A distributed national team of 15 named clinical, legal, and survivor consultants operates across New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Florida, and Texas, supporting delivery in 20+ languages.

The firm's principal intellectual property is the Survivor Equity & Inclusion (SEI) Framework, an organizational change methodology derived from Dr. Powell's University of Southern California doctoral research, designed to prevent re-exploitation of survivor leaders in anti-trafficking work. It is sold as a digital PDF at $50 per individual copy and $400 per organizational license for agencies up to 100 staff, with free copies provided to survivors. A secondary framework, the ARCS Model for trauma-informed supervision, is delivered as an interactive workshop series. The firm also publishes tip sheets, best-practice guides, and reports in multiple languages, and maintains the SPC National Inclusive Wellness Resource Directory. No software platform, mobile application, API, or AI/ML components are disclosed; the Squarespace-hosted website and email distribution are the only stated technology surfaces.

Revenue is generated primarily through professional-services consulting fees and a modest productized IP stream. Go-to-market is sales-led via direct outreach to mission-aligned nonprofits and government agencies (including HUD, OVC TTAC, NHTTAC, NYC OCFS, LA DCFS, City of Chicago, and San Francisco HSH). Pricing for consulting engagements is not disclosed publicly. The firm has reportedly trained more than 25,000 professionals and consulted on over 100 projects across ~15 years of operation, was selected to the 2024–2025 Obama Foundation Leaders USA cohort, and holds no disclosed outside funding or institutional investors.

Name

Shobana Powell Consulting

Legal name

Shobana Powell Consulting, LLC

Website

https://shobanapowellconsulting.com

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Shobana Powell Consulting is a privately held, woman-of-color-owned consulting firm delivering trauma-informed training, technical assistance, organizational change management, and participatory research to nonprofits, government agencies, and businesses working to end gender-based violence and human trafficking in the United States.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Social Impact Consulting (Anti-Trafficking and Gender-Based Violence)

NAICS

Management Consulting Services (54161), Individual and Family Services (6241), Translation and Interpretation Services (541930)

SIC

Services-Management Consulting Services (8742), Services-Social Services (8300)

akta.pro primary industry

Risk, Compliance & Internal Controls Consulting (BPAHACAJ)

akta.pro secondary industry

Reentry & Justice-Involved Support Services (BPAGAEAN)

Keywords

• Trauma-informed consulting
• Human trafficking training
• Gender-based violence services
• Survivor-centered design
• Organizational change management

Headquarters

HQ city

Sunnyvale

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices5 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Consulting Services: Direct consulting engagements including customized training, technical assistance, program design, capacity building support, change management, strategic planning facilitation, community-led research, and vicarious trauma supportive spaces.
2. SEI Framework Sales: Sale of the Survivor Equity & Inclusion Framework - individual copies and organizational licenses for agencies up to 100 staff members.
3. SEI Framework Agency Licenses: Agency-wide licenses for organizations with up to 100 staff members to share copies across the organization.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Shobana Powell Consulting delivers customized training, technical assistance, change management, participatory research, and supportive spaces for organizations addressing gender-based violence, human trafficking, and systemic oppression. The firm sells its proprietary Survivor Equity & Inclusion (SEI) Framework as a digital product and supports clients with trauma-informed interpretation and translation in 20+ languages.

Product overview

Shobana Powell Consulting is a consulting firm offering five core service areas: Training Services (customized curriculum development and facilitation), Technical Assistance (program design and consultation), Organizational Change Services (change management and strategic planning), Research Services (participatory action research), and Supportive Spaces (vicarious trauma support and collective wellness). Their flagship intellectual property is the Survivor Equity & Inclusion (SEI) Framework, an organizational change tool available for individual purchase, agency licensing, or gifting. They also produce publications including tipsheets, best practice guides, and research reports in multiple languages.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Survivor Equity & Inclusion (SEI) Framework: An organizational change approach developed through Dr. Powell's research to replace re-exploitative behaviors with equity and inclusion for survivors in the anti-trafficking movement.
• SPC National Inclusive Wellness Resource Directory

Products and services

• Training Services
• Technical Assistance
• Organizational Change Services
• Research Services
• Supportive Spaces
• Survivor Equity & Inclusion (SEI) Framework

Quantifiable outcome

• Trained more than 25,000 professionals
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers28 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Obama FoundationflagshipOthers · 20 September 2024Dr. Shobana Powell was selected as one of 205 leaders globally and one of 100 in the Leaders USA program. The six-month program provides leadership development, civic engagement training, peer networking, and access to mentors in the Foundation's global network. Focus areas include building skills and scaling work across public, private, and nonprofit sectors.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Polaris Project: Polaris operates the U.S. National Human Trafficking Hotline and provides training, technical assistance, and program design to anti-trafficking organizations. Like SPC, Polaris is a current client of SPC and a peer in delivering training/TA to the same anti-trafficking customer base.
• HEAL Trafficking: HEAL Trafficking is a national network of healthcare, advocacy, and direct-service professionals focused on human trafficking. Comparable to Shobana Powell Consulting because both deliver training, technical assistance, and capacity-building to organizations responding to trafficking, with overlapping federal and healthcare customers.
• Sanctuary for Families: Sanctuary for Families provides comprehensive services to survivors of trafficking and gender-based violence in New York, including training providers and law enforcement. Comparable to SPC in serving survivor populations and delivering training on trauma-informed and culturally-specific responses.
• Freedom Network USA: Freedom Network USA is a coalition of service providers advancing survivor-led, human rights-based approaches to trafficking. Both organizations operate in the survivor-centered, anti-trafficking training space and share overlapping training and capacity-building customers.
• Shared Hope International: Shared Hope provides training, technical assistance, and system-change advocacy to law enforcement, prosecutors, and service providers on sex trafficking and exploitation. SPC's technical assistance and training to government entities (HUD, OVC TTAC, OCFS) parallels Shared Hope's model of national training and policy advisory.
• Aequitas: Aequitas is a legal resource center providing training and technical assistance to prosecutors and law enforcement on human trafficking and gender-based violence. SPC's legal consultants (Amy Hsieh JD, Sarah Bendtsen Diedhiou JD) and TA engagements for OVC TTAC and Polaris show overlapping advisory and training services to legal/justice stakeholders.
• Cloudburst Group: Cloudburst Group is a consulting firm providing training, technical assistance, and capacity building to federal, state, and local agencies on housing, homelessness, and victim services. SPC and Cloudburst target overlapping government customers (HUD, victim services agencies) and provide comparable training/TA services.
• Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking (CAST): CAST provides direct services, training, and technical assistance to survivors of human trafficking and advocates for systemic change. SPC provides TA and training to CAST's networks and audiences, making them adjacent peers in the same anti-trafficking training/consulting ecosystem.

Broad incumbents

• Bridgespan Group: Bridgespan is a major nonprofit and social impact consulting firm advising foundations, nonprofits, and NGOs on strategy, capacity building, and organizational change. SPC operates in a narrower niche (anti-trafficking/GBV) but offers analogous management consulting and change management services to social-impact organizations.

Emerging players

• OVC TTAC (Office for Victims of Crime Training and Technical Assistance Center): OVC TTAC is a federally funded training and technical assistance center serving organizations supporting victims of crime. SPC delivers training to OVC TTAC audiences and competes for similar federal victim-services TA contracts, making it a relevant peer in the federal TA ecosystem.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/Shobana-Powell-Consulting-110302917792431
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/shobana-powell-consulting

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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