Who We Are

Suzanne Smith is founder and managing director of Social Impact Architects. Suzanne serves as a coach and consultant for social organizations seeking to maximize the impact of their social strategies and achieve real, measurable results. Having spent the greater part of the past two decades generating innovative and break-through social ideas, she has been widely recognized for her success in building and implementing award-winning programs and initiatives within the social sector.

Outside of Social Impact Architects, Suzanne holds a research fellowship at the Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship at Duke University and serves as adjunct faculty at the University of North Texas. She is also a member of the prestigious Society of Organizational Learning (founded by Peter Senge), serves on the Executive Committee of the National Board of the Social Enterprise Alliance, and was the 2010 recipient of the Next Generation Social Entrepreneurs Award. She also is a member of Dallas Social Venture Partners, Junior League, and Leadership Dallas.

Prior to founding Social Impact Architects, Suzanne was a Senior Consultant with the Washington, DC firm Community Wealth Ventures. Previously, she also worked in government relations with both the Phoenix House and the American Heart Association. While with the American Heart Association, Suzanne championed early efforts to build an integrated and outcome-driven platform to combat childhood obesity. In that role, she cofounded the Alliance for a Healthier Generation with a team from the William J. Clinton Foundation.

A hallmark of her career has been the development of productive and mutually beneficial partnerships with organizations such as the National Football League, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, and the National Black Caucus of State Legislators.

Suzanne holds an MBA from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business, where she was a CASE (Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship) scholar.

Alysia Johnson Fullen is a senior consultant with Social Impact Architects.  As a part of the SIA team, Alysia works with clients to implement the rigors of business planning. She has designed and delivered training programs on various business planning concepts and coached nonprofit executives through the process of developing and launching social enterprises. Alysia has worked with clients across the United States and internationally in 9 different countries.

Prior to Social Impact Architects, Alysia also worked as a Senior Consultant with Community Wealth Ventures where she created the curriculum for a 10-month business planning process to assist nonprofit organizations develop social enterprises and delivered the program to over 25 organizations. Previously, as a management consultant with IBM, she worked primarily with the U.S. Department of State and U.S. Agency for International Development on business process improvement, design and development of adult training programs and performance tracking and management. Alysia began her career as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Boaco, Nicaragua working with women micro-entrepreneurs to develop sustainable income generating initiatives. She has worked with numerous international nonprofit organizations in the Washington, DC area in the design and delivery of training programs for Central American entrepreneurs and Kosovar women leaders.

Alysia holds a MS in Local Economic Development from the London School of Economics and a BS in Commerce, with a focus on finance and marketing, from the University of Virginia’s McIntire School of Commerce. She is fluent in Spanish.