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Grounded in equity. Shaped by culture. Led by those closest to the work. 

Founded by a Pan-African strategist and leader with lived and professional experience across six countries, SHE Thinks Group blends strategy, leadership, and culturally rooted collaboration to reimagine how change happens. We work with bold partners – including funders, changemakers, researchers, and companies – who are reimagining how change happens, and who leads it. Our work spans health, gender equity, and development, globally including in the U.S. Because when SHE Thinks, and leads, she sparks change!

At SHE Thinks Group, our vision is bold: to reshape how change happens – for and with girls, women, and the communities they lead. We’re not here just to advise change. We’re building it.

How? By partnering with those closest to the work: reimagining leadership, shifting resources, and amplifying new ways of seeing and solving.

Learn what we’re building

Who We Work With

We collaborate with bold partners — including funders, changemakers, researchers, and companies — who are reimagining how change happens and who leads it. Whether you’re advancing a strategy or building something new for the field, we work with decision-makers ready to act.  

Our clients include:
  • Funders and Philanthropic Institutions — shaping portfolios, designing programs, and advancing social change through values-aligned investments.
  • Mission-Driven Organizations and Intermediaries — developing strategy, navigating growth or transition, and leading with clarity and purpose.
  • Research Institutions and Academic Centers — inspiring through keynotes, trainings, and facilitation that connect learning to action and social change.
  • Companies and Purpose-Led Platforms — advancing social responsibility through initiatives that make meaningful impact.

Let’s Build Together

SHE Thinks Group is more than a strategy and advisory firm — it’s a growing platform for collective learning, unlearning, and systems change. Grounded in equity. Shaped by culture. Led by those closest to the work. If you’re reimagining how change happens, and who leads it, we want to work with you.

What Our Clients Say

Dr. Yvette Efevbera delivered an exceptional interactive lecture on gender-based violence for our Sexual Rights for Social Change Academy Fellows that perfectly aligned with our program’s hands-on learning approach. Her lecture provided Fellows with the essential knowledge base they needed, while her engaging facilitation style created space for meaningful dialogue and practical application. What impressed me most was how seamlessly she connected the theoretical framework to our fellowship’s creative components. Fellows were able to successfully translate her insights into their short-form video production. Her ability to engage with participants and adapt her expertise to fit our program’s structure made this session both educational and directly applicable to the Fellows’ strategic communications work in advancing SRHR globally.
-Eira Nylander Torallas, on behalf of the Sexual Rights for Social Change Academy leadership team, USC Institute on Inequalities in Global Health

I partnered with Dr. Efevbera on the design of a complex grantmaking strategy for a large foundation and was continually impressed by her leadership, rigorous approach, and ability to drive impact in a highly nuanced environment. She brought a rare mix of strategic rigor, empathy, and agility to the work. Specifically:

  • Strategic facilitation – Yvette guided in-person and virtual discussions with skill and intention, creating space for diverse voices while moving the group toward alignment and decisive action. She was especially adept at naming tensions and helping stakeholders navigate through them productively.
  • Exceptional relationship management – She built trust quickly across a range of stakeholders, including nonprofits, funders, and technical experts, and served as a connector who strengthened the overall fabric of the collaboration.
  • Adaptive, impact-focused leadership – Yvette moved fluidly between roles—technical expert, facilitator, strategist—always staying grounded in what the moment called for. She was a true thought partner, bringing sharp analysis, fresh thinking, and a strong equity lens to every aspect of the project.

Yvette is someone I would work with again in a heartbeat. She brings deep expertise, integrity, and vision to any project—and knows how to translate all of that into real progress and impact.

-Julia Roper, Director of Strategy, Panorama Strategy
Dr. Yvette, founder of SHE Thinks Group, is a visionary. She breathes excellence and gentle rigor, which she combines with warmth, to facilitate joyfully productive partnerships. She holds herself and her clients to high standards, has remarkable work ethics, embraces their worries, and deploys her technical expertise to get to a result that exceeds expectations.
-Fanta Toure-Puri, inaugural Chief Executive Officer, Resilio Fund
I cannot thank you enough for your amazing talk in the Changemakers panel at the Johns Hopkins Center for Global Women’s Health and Equity Evidence to Action Gender-Based Violence event. It was exactly what we needed to hear: inspirational, grounded, instructive!
-GBV Prevention Expert