People
Experience Built by Doing the Work.
Strong Road brings together strategists, operators, negotiators, technologists, fundraisers, educators, and advisors whose experience has been built inside the kinds of systems our clients are trying to strengthen.
Multidisciplinary by Design
Complex work rarely stays in one lane.
Strategy can become an operating question. Growth can become a trust question. Technology can become a leadership question. Strong Road is built to bring the right disciplines together around the work rather than force every challenge through the same consulting model.
Our team has worked across public institutions, government contracting, nonprofits, technology, education, international development, fundraising, social services, and executive leadership. What connects the work is a shared commitment to thoughtful decision-making, practical implementation, and impact that lasts.
Firm Leadership
Connecting Strategy to Execution.
Strong Road's leadership combines strategy, business development, operating systems, negotiation, organizational change, and AI-enabled workflows.
Founder & Principal
Tyler W. Dewey
Tyler helps leaders navigate growth, capture, negotiation, and organizational trust, drawing on executive leadership, federal contracting, mediation, refugee resettlement, and peacebuilding experience.
Selected experience: Social services executive leadership · Refugee resettlement · International peacebuilding
Expertise: Growth Strategy · GovCon Capture · Mediation · Leadership Alignment
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Tyler founded SRSG as a social impact consulting firm to help the best people do more good with the funding available. A Shipley-certified capture strategist and Harvard-certified mediator, his background blends high-stakes international diplomacy with executive leadership.
He has led peace talks on repatriation, mediated complex Middle East and Israel-Palestine dialogues, helped resettle over 1,000 refugees, and directed a $4M social services agency, reducing turnover from 100% to 12%. Tyler advises C-suite leaders on capture strategy, revenue operations, multi-party negotiation, and leadership trust. He holds an M.A. in International Peace and Conflict Resolution from American University and a B.A. in Peace Studies from Naropa University.
Co-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer
Gabriel Kauper
Gabriel turns strategy into executable systems, drawing on federal proposal operations, market intelligence, revenue operations, organizational learning, and practical AI adoption.
Experience includes: Maersk · Allstate · ManpowerGroup
Expertise: GTM Strategy · AI-Enabled Workflows · Market Intelligence · Organizational Learning
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Gabriel co-founded SRSG to help organizations transform operational complexity into durable, high-performing growth systems. He oversees SRSG's client delivery, AI-enabled workflows, proposal operations, and RevOps architectures.
His background includes leading proposal operations at Maersk across 15+ major federal RFPs, securing over $400M in contract wins, optimizing sales funnels at Allstate, and building market intelligence systems at ManpowerGroup. Gabriel also brings hands-on experience in LLM model training and AI tool adoption. He holds an MBA from George Washington University and a B.A. from The College of William & Mary.
Specialists & Advisors
Depth Where the Work Demands It.
Our broader team brings specialized depth across business development, federal procurement, technology, fundraising, education, negotiation, operations, and organizational transformation.
Business Development Lead
Fatoumata Zahara Fofana
Zahara builds partnerships and growth pathways across international development, grants, economics, and consulting, grounded in cross-cultural program experience.
Experience includes: Palladium · FHI 360 · African Union · Dev-Afrique
Expertise: International BD · Grants Management · Partnerships · Program Operations
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Zahara's career spans program and grant operations with Palladium, FHI 360, the African Union, and Dev-Afrique. Fluent in English, French, and Bambara, she brings a relational, cross-cultural approach to partnership formation. She holds an M.A. in International Economics from American University.
Leadership & Organizational Transformation Strategist
Yelena Jackson
MBA · ICF ACC
Yelena helps leaders navigate organizational transformation, workforce development, and acquisition governance, drawing on 21+ years in federal procurement leadership.
Experience includes: IRS Office of the Chief Procurement Officer
Expertise: Federal Procurement · Workforce Development · Executive Coaching · Governance & Risk
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As a former FAC-C Level III certified procurement leader and founder of an award-winning $1.5M federal workforce development program, Yelena guides leaders through scaling strain and acquisition governance. She is a GWU MBA Outstanding Scholar, ICF ACC certified, and bilingual in English and Russian.
Senior Advisor
Anthony Wanis-St. John
Ph.D.
Anthony helps institutions and executive teams navigate conflict, high-stakes negotiation, and multi-party alignment, informed by global peacebuilding and executive training experience.
Experience includes: American University · U.S. Institute of Peace
Expertise: Negotiation · Multi-Party Mediation · Peacebuilding · Leadership Trust
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Associate Professor at American University and former USIP Senior Advisor, Anthony has facilitated peace processes, unity talks, and executive trainings worldwide. Fluent in English, French, Spanish, and Arabic, he holds a Ph.D. from The Fletcher School at Tufts.
Senior Technology Advisor
Daniel W. Miller
MBA · PMP
Dan helps leaders modernize technology responsibly, with experience spanning enterprise strategy, AI governance, cybersecurity risk, and complex transformation.
Experience includes: Forvis Mazars · Fortune 500 and regulated environments
Expertise: Technology Strategy · AI Governance · Cybersecurity & Risk · Process Automation
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Dan brings over 12 years of experience leading enterprise technology strategy, AI governance, and digital transformation within Fortune 500 and highly regulated environments.
His past impact includes leading AI-enabled automation that reduced manual effort by 90 percent and accelerated cash flow by 30 to 60 days, as well as managing a $65M regulatory risk program and a $37M cybersecurity remediation effort at Forvis Mazars. He holds an MBA from the University of Rochester Simon Business School.
Full Stack Engineer
Tommy Van Duyne
Tommy builds and modernizes the digital systems organizations depend on, drawing on more than a decade of full-stack development and technical operations experience.
Experience includes: Wowbrary · Visible Legacy
Expertise: Full Stack Development · Systems Architecture · Automation · Cloud Infrastructure
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Tommy builds and modernizes the digital systems organizations depend on, drawing on more than a decade of full-stack development and technical operations experience. His work spans web development, systems architecture, automation, data integration, cloud infrastructure, and technical operations.
He brings a practical, problem-solving approach to helping organizations strengthen the technology behind their mission and operations.
Development Advisor
Carlie Smith
CFRE
Carlie helps nonprofits strengthen fundraising capacity through foundation strategy, donor development, capital campaigns, and community engagement.
Experience includes: Potomac Riverkeeper Network
Expertise: Foundation Grants · Donor Strategy · Capital Campaigns · Nonprofit Growth
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At Potomac Riverkeeper Network, Carlie manages a portfolio of 50+ foundation grants averaging $650K+ in annual revenue. Her experience encompasses capital campaigns, major donor cultivation, volunteer mobilization, and community engagement. She holds a B.A. from Wheaton College and is a Certified Fundraising Executive.
Strategy Analyst
Emma Pfanzelt
Emma turns research, market data, and operating information into clear strategic frameworks, decision tools, and executive-ready deliverables.
Expertise: Quantitative Research · Systems Logic · Market Analytics · Strategic Deliverables
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Emma brings analytical expertise across quantitative research, business operations software, systems logic, and client project execution. She is a B.S. candidate in Business Information Systems at Eastern Connecticut State University.
Senior Consultant
Jason Mellen
Ed.D. · ACC
Jason helps educational institutions, nonprofits, and growth-stage ventures strengthen operations, compliance systems, and leadership capability through practical organizational design.
Experience includes: AppleTree Pre-K · Vertus High School
Expertise: Education Operations · Systems Design · Executive Coaching · Organizational Scaling
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Former Network Director of Operations for 13 AppleTree Pre-K schools and COO of Vertus High School, Jason combines deep operational design with executive coaching. He holds an Ed.D. from St. John Fisher College and a Leadership Coaching Executive Certificate from Georgetown.
Executive Advisor
Fred Dewey
Fred helps organizations navigate distress and hyper-growth through operational turnarounds, recapitalization, scaling strategy, and executive leadership.
Experience includes: Portal Software · 10+ corporate turnarounds
Expertise: Turnaround Strategy · High-Growth Scaling · M&A Execution · Executive Leadership
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As a serial CEO and technology executive, Fred recapitalized a 3PL provider out of bankruptcy with $2.5M in capital while preserving 150 jobs, scaled Portal Software's sales engine from $5M to $300M in revenue ahead of a $4B IPO, and led 10+ corporate turnarounds. He holds a B.S. in Computer Engineering from RIT.
How We Assemble
The team should fit the work.
Fit Before Formula
We begin with the decisions, constraints, relationships, and outcomes that actually matter.
Specialists in Concert
Strategy, growth, systems, technology, finance, and trust can be brought together when the work requires it.
Senior Attention
Clients work with senior practitioners who can make decisions, solve problems, and stay close to delivery.
Work With Strong Road
The Right Team Starts With the Work.
The right team depends on the work. We bring the right mix of strategy, growth, systems, technology, and organizational expertise to the table.