Your Impact Partner

Founder

Cassie Gruenstein is a consultant and strategist with 25 years of experience helping organizations bring to life values-aligned programs, processes, and culture. She helps leaders grow organizations that center employee and community well-being, trust-based connections, and collaborative success.

She brings a unique blend of strategic expertise and a deep understanding of embodiment and mindfulness practices to her work, partnering with organizations to re-imagine culture, systems, and structures in ways that prevent burnout and support the full humanity of their employees.

Since 2010, her firm, Plus Impact Partners, has served over 50 clients across diverse sectors. Cassie's work focuses on the intersection of purpose and performance, helping organizations align their mission with a sustainable and compassionate internal environment. She leverages human-centered design, business, and nonprofit frameworks, incorporating mindfulness and embodiment practices to create lasting, positive change.

She has taught thousands of leaders in business, nonprofits, and philanthropies across diverse platforms including teaching human centered design methods at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business and Berkeley ExecEd, as a speaker at Candid, and as a corporate trainer on Power, and Privilege. Her experience across sectors gives her a nuanced understanding of the challenges and opportunities facing organizations today.