Salima Levy
MBA, MHRM. Nonprofit founder. Organizational-effectiveness practitioner. Trainer. Public speaker. Published author. Community systems builder. Historic revitalization strategist. Creative director.
Nonprofit Systems
Human Resources / SHRM
Training & Facilitation
Technology & AI
Community Navigation
Publishing
Historic Preservation
Fashion, Publishing & Cultural IP
The range is the advantage.
The story is not that Salima has “done a lot of things.” The story is that she has repeatedly worked at the point where people, systems, culture, service and execution have to meet.
Not a résumé. A capability map. Salima can move from a board conversation to a family in crisis, from a workflow map to a public workshop, from a historic property to a digital product, or from nonprofit systems to an editorial fashion world — without losing the strategy connecting them.
Corporate complexity taught range.
Experience across large organizations strengthened the disciplines that now show up in Salima’s founder work: human capital, organizational effectiveness, culture, stakeholder management, training, communication and execution.
Experian
HBO
Time Warner
LiveOnNY
Executive presence — comfortable inside complexity.
Salima’s experience spans corporate, nonprofit, healthcare, community and founder-led environments. That range shows up in how she approaches organizations: understand the people, clarify the system, build the operating structure, and make the experience coherent enough to scale.
Her background in human resources, organizational effectiveness, training and implementation allows her to move between strategy and execution without treating culture as an afterthought.
Business + people systems
Salima brings formal business and human-resources preparation into organizational work, with a professional lens shaped by management, people strategy, culture, talent alignment and organizational effectiveness.
- MBA, MHRM
- SHRM-affiliated HR perspective
- Organizational development and operating-system design
Cross-sector fluency
Banking, data, media, healthcare nonprofit and community environments require very different forms of judgment. That diversity is now part of the founder toolkit.
LiveOnNY adds a distinct nonprofit healthcare lens as the federally designated organ procurement organization serving the greater New York City area.
What transfers into founder work
- Managing complexity without making it confusing
- Building systems that survive turnover
- Training people, not simply issuing instructions
- Connecting culture to execution
- Moving from strategy into measurable operating behavior
How Salima works
She tends to work from the outside in and the inside out at the same time: What does the person experience? What does the organization need behind the scenes to deliver that experience reliably?
Service is not a side project.
The founder platform is rooted in community service, coalition participation and practical infrastructure for families navigating systems that rarely arrive one at a time.
Operation HOPE
S&T Bank
Best Buy
Wawa
Giant Food
Play Street Museum
Baltimore Connect
Community is personal — legacy is relational.
Salima’s public work is grounded in family, reciprocity, community and lived experience. The founder story is not presented as a lone-hero narrative; partnerships, family support, coalitions, service networks and trusted relationships are part of how the work is built.
That same instinct shapes the organizations she leads: build structures strong enough to help people, but human enough to remember why they exist.
She doesn’t just design programs. She designs the experience around them.
Content, facilitation, communications, participant experience, technology and implementation are designed as one system.
Parent Training Workshops
Family-centered workshops that translate difficult systems into practical action for parents and caregivers navigating autism, disability, education, benefits, crisis response and family stability. The goal is not simply information delivery; it is parent confidence, usable language, better documentation and stronger decision-making.
Organizational Development Training Modules
Training modules for organizations and leaders focused on organizational effectiveness, change, psychological safety, implementation discipline, neuroinclusive leadership, crisis response and human-centered systems. These modules turn Salima’s corporate HR/OD background into practical capacity-building for nonprofit, public-sector and mission-driven teams.
The Alani Jacob Foundation Leadership & Innovation Academy
A year-round, cohort-based leadership platform developing leaders, entrepreneurs, creators, advocates and innovators through practical exposure to AI, entrepreneurship, branding, publishing, digital media, nonprofit leadership, community development and ownership. Built around practical skills, purpose, leadership, portfolio evidence and generational impact.
The Just Like Me Series
A publishing and learning platform centered on Black and neurodivergent families, disability representation, belonging, communication and advocacy. The series includes children’s books and related educational resources designed to help families see themselves reflected while giving schools and communities language they can use.
SAFE HUB + Parent Navigation
A structured family-navigation framework connecting housing, education/IEP, disability benefits, medical access, documentation and other crisis pathways in one coordinated experience.
Public Speaking, Facilitation + Institutional Training
Workshops, staff development, public speaking, executive training, community education, cohort learning and train-the-trainer structures designed to move knowledge into practice.
Mission and imagination are not opposites.
The creative side of Salima’s work is another expression of the same systems instinct: preserve memory, define the world, design the experience, protect the identity and build the structure that lets it grow.
Founder + Creative Director — strategy can have beauty.
Salima’s creative work demonstrates the same discipline as her organizational work: define the identity, create a coherent visual language, build repeatable standards, and make every detail support the larger story. Fashion, publishing and cultural IP, historic place-making and editorial storytelling sit alongside nonprofit systems because they all require world-building, audience understanding, consistency and execution.
Publishing — The Just Like Me Series
A children’s and family publishing universe built around autism, neurodivergence, identity, communication, advocacy and belonging. The series extends beyond books into educational tools, guided resources and family-centered learning.
Cultural Lifestyle + Fashion — Sacred Recall
A premium Black cultural lifestyle house centered on memory, inheritance, identity and cultural truth — spanning apparel, books, home/lifestyle extensions, workshops, curriculum and cultural storytelling. Brand language: Wear What Remembered You First.
Historic Preservation + Place — Rockfort Hall
A historic adaptive-reuse project in Saltsburg, Pennsylvania, envisioned around hospitality, accessibility, arts, workforce development, training, events and community use.
Creative systems — world-building with operating discipline.
Publishing, fashion, curriculum, hospitality concepts, visual identity and editorial storytelling are developed with the same rigor as an organizational system: rules, consistency, audience, implementation and growth.
The thread was there before the title.
Introduce the whole founder — without reading a résumé.
Short bio
Salima Levy, MBA, MHRM, is a nonprofit founder, organizational-effectiveness practitioner, trainer, public speaker, published author and creative director whose work spans community systems, technology, disability-family advocacy, workforce development, publishing, historic revitalization and cultural brand development.
Founder introduction
Salima Levy, MBA, MHRM, is the Founder & Executive Director of Crystal Life Ministries and Founder of The Alani Jacob Foundation. Her work sits at the intersection of organizational effectiveness, community systems, technology, education, publishing, training, historic preservation and cultural creative direction. Her professional experience includes U.S. Bank, Experian, HBO, Time Warner and LiveOnNY, alongside coalition and community leadership in Howard County. She is a public speaker, published author and trainer who develops programs, workshops, cohorts, digital tools and cultural-engagement strategies designed to turn complex needs into practical, sustainable systems.
Emcee introduction
Please welcome Salima Levy, MBA, MHRM — nonprofit founder, organizational-effectiveness practitioner, author, trainer and systems builder. Salima has worked across nationally recognized corporate and nonprofit environments while building community-centered initiatives in family navigation, financial empowerment, workforce development, technology and historic revitalization. She is also the creative mind behind publishing and cultural-lifestyle properties that extend her work into culture and storytelling. Across every lane, her focus is the same: build systems that help people move with more power, clarity and possibility.
The founder in one sentence:
Salima builds worlds that work.
Salima Levy, MBA, MHRM
Founder & Executive Director, Crystal Life Ministries · Founder, The Alani Jacob Foundation