About — Safiya & Co.

ABOUT SAFIYA & CO

Safiya & Co. is a boutique strategic advisory firm for leaders and organizations navigating complex transitions, growth, and high-stakes work. We are who leaders turn to when the work is serious and the relationships matter.

We have done this work inside government, corporate, nonprofit, and entertainment, and we know how to get things done in each. Across every engagement the through line is the same: strategy, relationships, and execution in service of real impact.

We partner with mission-driven organizations and institutions, public-facing leaders and the founder-led enterprises around them, and government and civic partners. We serve as senior advisor, interim or fractional Chief of Staff, and strategic partner. Leaders usually call us when the vision is clear but the path is not, when their work spans more than one platform, or when a transition leaves a gap.

We lead from behind the scenes, with discretion and intention, and we stay with the work until it is done.

ABOUT SAFIYA

Safiya Jones-Colbert is Principal & Senior Advisor of Safiya & Co. She is an executive strategist and organizational operator with more than twenty years of experience advising public-facing leaders and working across government, corporate, nonprofit, and founder-led enterprises.

She began her career in community relations at a Los Angeles nonprofit. Public service came next, as Communications Director and Legislative Deputy for Los Angeles City Council District 11. She then spent six years in corporate leadership, heading community affairs at Cbeyond, a publicly traded technology company. There she built a nationally recognized corporate social responsibility strategy and stewarded relationships with chambers of commerce and trade organizations across the country.

She also spent several years as strategic right hand, senior advisor, and organizational anchor to a nationally recognized public figure, at the center of a multifaceted enterprise spanning media, publishing, speaking, and community impact. It was the kind of role where discretion, relationships, and strategic clarity are everything.

Through Safiya & Co., leaders who needed a strategic partner they could trust sought her out, and that work has grown into long-term advisory relationships across sectors.

Safiya holds an MBA from Emory University's Goizueta Business School and a B.S. in Public Policy and Management from the University of Southern California