About
I’m Joshua White. I help mission-driven organizations make real strategic choices, the kind that clarify what you will do, what you won’t, and why.
Nonprofits, faith-based institutions, and purpose-driven businesses face the same structural challenges as Fortune 500 companies: mergers that need diligence, resources that need allocating, operating models that need redesigning. They just don’t always have access to the advisory support that makes those decisions well. That’s the gap I fill.
How I Got Here
I started in the California State Legislature as a policy advisor, where the work was about getting competing stakeholders to agree on hard things. A $1.3B healthcare tax restructuring. Medicaid policy. Opioid reform. The common thread was navigating real constraints (political, financial, regulatory) to reach decisions that stuck.
From there, an MBA at UT Austin, then five years at PwC Strategy& as a Senior Manager focused on M&A and operations in regulated industries. The work centered on whether deals actually make sense once you look past the headline numbers. One $3B acquisition ended with a board decision to walk away because the synergy model couldn’t support the banker assumptions. A $15B spin-off required Day 1 planning across every function. Cost models for utility mergers had to hold up under regulatory scrutiny and expert testimony.
The legislature taught me the stakeholder side: how to build consensus among people who start in different places. PwC taught me the analytical side: how to pressure-test assumptions until you’re confident in the answer. Both are essential for the work I do now.