A strategist who understands execution. A performance leader who understands people.

• 20+ years in strategy, performance, and organizational leadership

• Deep experience in government, nonprofit, and philanthropic systems

• Proven record of building accountability structures that stick

• Practitioner of data‑driven decision‑making and continuous improvement

• Trusted advisor to executives navigating high‑stakes change

Featured Case Studies:

“Billion-dollar budgets reviewed; millions of dollars raised; goals exceeded by double digit percentages; success achieved in improbable situations”

Title: Guiding 29 State Agencies Through a $30 Billion Performance Review

Client: Office of Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf

From 2018 to 2022, in a first in Pennsylvania history, the Commonwealth was required by legislative mandate to conduct a five-year performance review of all state agency spending — more than $30 billion — with each of 29 agencies producing a report for the General Assembly during its designated year.

Joshua joined the Governor's Office at the start of the administration's second term to run the Commonwealth's side of that process. He designed a tailored engagement approach for each agency and guided its leadership through a twelve-month cycle: translating program activity into measurable, defensible outcomes, coordinating submissions to the Independent Fiscal Office, and preparing agency personnel to testify before the Performance-Based Budget Board.

The structural challenge was that none of the 29 agencies reported to him. Delivery depended on building a process that agency leadership would actually follow, holding organizations of very different size and sophistication to a shared standard and a statutory deadline, and sustaining working relationships across three institutions with competing interests — the Governor's Office, an independent fiscal analysis office, and a legislature controlled by the opposing party.

Alongside the agency reviews, Joshua coordinated 23 statutory tax credit evaluations over the same five-year cycle.

Every agency completed its review on schedule. A staff member at the Independent Fiscal Office who worked with Joshua across the full five years described him as the person who "ensured agency staff stayed on track and met deadlines," making a complex process "much easier" and enabling her office "to do our jobs more effectively and efficiently."

2. Event Execution and High-Level Stakeholder Management: Millions Raised

Client: New Hampshire Democratic Party

In the summer of 2010, the preeminent state party organization in the nation unexpectedly loses their only fundraising staff member four months before the election. With no time to waste, the party chairman executes a nationwide search for a professional who can hit the ground running and guide the party through their major fundraising event in the fall headlined by US Senator Amy Klobuchar.

The chairman hires Joshua and he immediately began implementing a fundraising operation that increased the average gift size by 94%, ensured timely and accurate reporting to the Federal Election Commission, and led the successful execution of the fall fundraiser featuring Sen. Klobuchar, exceeding the party’s fundraising goal.

Joshua’s performance was so well-received that party leadership asked Joshua to continue his work with the organization into 2011 after Vice President Joe Biden communicated his willingness to headline the party’s spring fundraiser.

Navigating a process that required astute judgment and high-level stakeholder engagement with political leadership in New Hampshire, the Democratic National Committee, and the White House, Joshua successfully executed the spring fundraiser and exceeded the party’s fundraising goal.

At the end of twelve months working with Joshua in the summer of 2011, the New Hampshire Democratic Party raised $2.9 million and was equipped with a fundraising operation Joshua built that led to significant victories on Election Day 2012.

3. Creation of Organization-Wide Development Operation: Goals Exceeded by Double Digits

Client: American Academy of Nursing

At the end of 2014, with no history of paid fundraising staff, the board of the American Academy of Nursing decided to hire a fundraising professional to build a development plan to engage their nationwide membership in order to raise funds to support their policy initiatives.

The Academy hired Joshua to create and implement the development plan, build and coach up a development committee, and clean up development operations that were lacking a professional system to solicit gifts, produce timely thank-you notes for donors, and track donor history.

Joshua built and executed a comprehensive development strategy that created individualized member‑to‑member fundraising plans for all fifteen development committee members and ten board members. Joshua drove sustained revenue growth; annual giving increased 15.5% in 2015, 21.7% in 2016, and 34.2% in 2017 by professionalizing systems, coaching volunteer leadership, and establishing a repeatable donor‑engagement model

4. Leadership Coaching: Success Achieved in Improbable Situations

Client: Virginia State Senator Creigh Deeds

After narrowly losing his 2005 bid for Attorney General by only a few hundred votes out of nearly three million votes cast, Senator Deeds decides to launch a bid to be the Democratic Party’s 2009 nominee for Governor.

A nationwide search, launched to identify the team that will lead Senator Deeds to victory in the 2009 primary, begins in earnest in the early months of 2007.

Hundreds apply, dozens are brought down to Richmond to interview in person with the Senator, and only four individuals, from those hundreds of original applicants, are chosen to create the organizational architecture for victory.

Joshua is dispatched by Deeds to manage his political and fundraising operation in southwestern Virginia. Headquartered in Roanoke, Joshua built a massive operation spanning 27 counties and over 28,000 square miles: from Lexington to the north, south to Danville near the North Carolina border, and west out to Bristol on the Tennessee border.

Deeds bucked conventional political wisdom as the only candidate in a multi-candidate primary to hire a paid professional to run a political and fundraising operation in conservative southwestern Virginia."

The operation raised $450,000 in essential early money that buoyed the Senator to an upset victory in the 2009 Democratic gubernatorial primary with nearly 50% of the vote as he defeated his two more widely known and well-funded opponents by 23 and 26 percentage points, respectively.