Katrina Zavalney

Non Profit Organizational Development Consultant

Katrina Zavalney is a strategic planning and organization development consultant with a Masters in Organization Development with 20 years of experience in community development, sustainability, event management, and nonprofits. She has been with Give a Beat since Oct 2019.  Katrina has excelled as a consultant for organization development and strategic planning, dedicated to creating sustainable livelihood on a global scale. She has been at the forefront of the sustainability movement, including greening Disney, writing environmental policies that went company-wide, and developed into one of Disney’s most influential environmental policy. She is a systems thinker and network weaver, with an ability to authentically connect; building high impact collaborative programs. Additionally, as a professional facilitator, an ability to work through seemingly impossible interpersonal challenges to achieve win/win lasting results. Katrina trains youth on conflict resolution and mediation skills with the West Hawai’i Mediation Center as she is passionate about human development and emotional intelligence.  Her website that showcases organization development and strategy work is: www.KatrinaZavalney.com.  Katrina is a self-starter and founded a nonprofit to support communities to be self-sustaining in underserved communities developing culturally appropriate programs, training, skill building, and resilience, www.AranyaSolutions.org. She partnered with Rotary International multiplying funds to increase impact. Serving 40,000 people internationally directly + thousands more indirectly,  with 3 villages in Nepal and 3 schools in Uganda. Katrina is ready to further collaborate with the world’s most impactful and inspiring leaders to develop transformational sustainability initiatives, climate resilience, and elevate world class culture. She now lives in Hawai’i in South Kona with the goal of developing a Sustainability Center that will host educational workshops on natural building, growing food year round, and retreats.