Work With Mercedes
Services for Strategy, Storytelling, and Meaningful Action
My services help organizations, founders, and purpose-driven brands clarify complex ideas, engage people meaningfully, and turn vision into practical action. I draw on more than two decades of experience across food systems, public health, gender equity, global development, media, and culture.
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How I Can Help
Thoughtful Services for Meaningful Work
These services are shaped around the people, purpose, and outcomes behind the work. Explore the options below, learn more about Mercedes, or contact me about a custom engagement.
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Speaking & Workshop Services
Engaging keynotes, facilitated conversations, and practical workshops designed to inspire reflection and move audiences toward action.
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Consulting & Strategy Services
Human-centered strategy for organizations navigating growth, food systems, gender equity, communications, and complex global challenges.
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Brand Storytelling Services
Editorial and cultural storytelling that helps brands, destinations, and organizations connect with audiences through credible, human stories.
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Speaking & Workshops
I bring global experience, rigorous thinking, and lived perspective to conversations about leadership, food systems, gender, culture, entrepreneurship, travel, and living out loud.
Sessions are thoughtful, participatory, and grounded in real-world examples, not generic inspiration. Each talk or workshop is shaped around your audience and the change you want the experience to create.
- Keynotes and featured talks
- Interactive workshops and masterclasses
- Panels, fireside chats, and moderated conversations
- Leadership, strategy, and team learning sessions
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Consulting & Strategy
I help organizations move from scattered ideas and complex challenges to clear priorities, practical plans, and decisions grounded in people’s real needs.
My approach combines research, facilitation, strategic thinking, and cross-cultural experience. The result is work that is ambitious enough to matter and practical enough to use.
- Organizational and program strategy
- Food systems and agribusiness advisory
- Gender and human-centered program design
- Communications, marketing, and audience strategy
- Facilitation, research, and stakeholder engagement
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Brand & Cultural Storytelling
I create stories that connect destinations, products, organizations, and ideas to the people they hope to reach without flattening culture into marketing language.
Through DG Speaks and custom partnerships, I bring an editorial eye, a global perspective, and a strong understanding of how women experience food, culture, travel, and place.
- Sponsored editorial and branded storytelling
- Destination and cultural reporting
- Campaign concepts and narrative development
- Interviews, articles, social content, and on-camera work
- Long-term ambassador and media partnerships
Need Something Different?
Let’s Build the Right Engagement Together
Some projects do not fit neatly into one category. I also create custom advisory engagements, retreats, learning experiences, campaign support, and cross-disciplinary projects that combine strategy, facilitation, and storytelling.
Experience in Action
Across Training, Culture, and Global Engagement
What People Say
Thoughtful Work. Meaningful Impact.
Let’s Create Something Meaningful
Bring a Global, Human-Centered Perspective to Your Next Project
Tell me what you are building, what feels stuck, and what you want to make possible. You can also explore DG Speaks to see my editorial work.