Strategic support for social impact organizations

Clear thinking.
Real results.

Mission-driven work cannot wait for perfect conditions. Hatch Gemini partners with social impact organizations navigating growth, transition, and complexity, bringing the clarity, experienced leadership, and genuine care to build resilient systems and stronger outcomes.

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Interim leadership · Fractional capacity · Thought partnership · Organizational assessments

Where we work
StrategyExecution

Embedded alongside your team, from the first hard question through the work of implementation.

Nearly 40%faster client onboarding
$600K → $2.5Mclient revenue growth
$400Kcontract closed
10 yearsinnovation planned

Experience behind the work

We’ve sat in the seat. We know what the work asks of leaders.

Christina Hachikian and Kelly Powers have worked together for more than a decade. Both have led social impact organizations and now bring that operating experience directly into client teams.

Christina Hachikian
Founder

Christina Hachikian

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.

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Kelly Powers
Founder

Kelly Powers

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 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 changemaker in Chicago. Kelly’s professional background in education, operations, and entrepreneurship allows her to deliver value to clients as they grow their impact.

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How we help

Support shaped by work we’ve already led.

These are not abstract consulting capabilities. They come from building financial systems, restructuring operations, leading teams, launching ventures, and carrying organizations through growth and transition.

Interim Leadership

Flexible, time-bound executive leadership from experienced operators who step into roles such as CEO, COO, CPO, people leader, recruiting lead, or chief of staff, scaling up or down as needed.

Experience behind itGrounded in interim COO, fractional executive, founder, finance, operations, and people leadership roles.
Best fitFor a leadership transition, an urgent vacancy, or essential work that cannot pause while a permanent solution is found.
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Evidence from the work

Kept day-to-day operations and a multi-year strategy moving during a COO transition.

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Fractional Capacity

A part-time executive working as a member of the team on an ongoing basis, filling strategic gaps across operations, strategy, finance, and people without the overhead of a full-time hire.

Experience behind itGrounded in fractional CFO, chief of staff, COO, operations, organizational design, and executive advisory work.
Best fitFor organizations that need sustained senior capacity and accountability, but not another full-time executive role.
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Evidence from the work

Built the financial and operating backbone behind client revenue growth from $600K to $2.5M.

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Thought Partnership

A seasoned sounding board and problem solver offering regular one-to-one support on business-model development, crisis management, financial sustainability, team design, and consequential decisions.

Experience behind itGrounded in advising CEOs through capital raises, customer negotiations, leadership transitions, growth markets, and long-range planning.
Best fitFor leaders who need experienced counsel that can sharpen the decision and stay close enough to help move it forward.
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Evidence from the work

Helped leaders close a $400K agreement and shape an actionable 10-year innovation roadmap.

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Organizational Assessments

Results-oriented assessments that quickly identify what is working and what is getting in the way, paired with a practical rollout plan for growth, restructuring, turnarounds, or mergers.

Experience behind itGrounded in rebuilding finance and HR functions, mapping operating systems, designing teams, and scaling organizations through change.
Best fitFor moments when the organization needs a shared diagnosis and clear priorities before committing to a larger change effort.
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Evidence from the work

Mapped a strained client lifecycle that helped cut onboarding time by nearly 40%.

Impact in clients’ words

The work, seen by the people inside it.

Each story connects a real organizational moment to the support Hatch Gemini provided, the result that followed, and the client perspective that makes the impact credible.

Interim LeadershipStriveTogether
Stronger through transition

Protected momentum through a consequential COO transition.

Moment
When StriveTogether's COO left, the organization was implementing a bold multi-year strategy, growing its team, and could not pause the work.
Hatch Gemini’s role
Hatch Gemini provided interim COO leadership across operational, financial, and people priorities; mentored the operations team; kept daily work moving; advanced strategic initiatives; and supported the search for and onboarding of a new COO.
What changed
What was expected to last several months became a partnership of more than a year, creating a smooth path to permanent leadership and a stronger organization on the other side.

“We didn't just survive the transition. We came through it stronger.”

Jennifer Blatz, President and CEO, StriveTogether
Fractional CapacityAutonomyWorks
Senior finance, flexibly scaled

Made finance a strategic part of a growing business.

Moment
AutonomyWorks had tripled in size, but its management team was thin and transactional finance work still depended heavily on the CEO. The organization needed senior financial leadership without the cost of a full-time COO.
Hatch Gemini’s role
A fractional COO joined the management team, brought an experienced perspective to its operating rhythm, built foundational processes and a management dashboard, transferred those systems to internal operations, and served as a sounding board to the CEO.
What changed
The organization gained higher-quality financial leadership at a lower overall cost, changed at a pace the team could manage, and adjusted the level of support as its needs evolved.

“We were able to get a talented COO for a fraction of the cost of a full-time person.”

David Freidman, Founder, AutonomyWorks
Thought PartnershipSCC
Supporting a Critical Transition

Partnering with the board to ensure a supported leadership transition.

Moment
Special Children's Charities was navigating leadership transition, strategic planning, leadership needs, and the search for a new Executive Director. The Board needed clarity, structure, and steady guidance through a consequential set of decisions.
Hatch Gemini’s role
Hatch Gemini created a thoughtful decision framework, helped the Board stay focused on the bigger picture, led an organized and communicative search grounded in a deep understanding of the role, and continued as a trusted sounding board during the new Executive Director's onboarding.
What changed
The organization gained stability and direction during the transition, the search felt more manageable, and the incoming Executive Director entered a complex leadership role with continued strategic support.

“What stood out most to me was the stability Hatch Gemini helped create during that transition. That work gave us a thoughtful framework for making decisions and helped us stay focused on the bigger picture.”

Ray Baker, Board Chair, Special Children's CharitiesRead both client perspectives

How we work

Not advice from the sidelines. Partnership in the work.

Hatch Gemini works as an extension of your team, combining candid counsel with practical execution and building capacity as the work moves forward.

  1. Listen & align

    Understand who is at the table, what matters, and what success needs to look like.

  2. Get inside the work

    Turn shared goals into a tight plan, then stay close enough to solve the issues that emerge.

  3. Move it forward

    Deliver useful results without overcomplicating and leave the team stronger for what comes next.

A new operating frontier

AI changes what is possible. It does not replace business judgment.

Hatch Gemini’s working point of view starts with a real business problem, redesigns the work around people and outcomes, and applies AI only where it earns a role.

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Let’s get to work

Bring us the challenge that needs clear thinking and experienced hands.

Tell us what is changing, where the pressure is building, or what your team needs to move forward.

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