About Ryan
Ryan Bunts is a nonprofit and education leader with more than a decade of experience helping mission-driven organizations strengthen strategy, operations, implementation, and impact measurement.
Throughout his career, Ryan has worked across K-12 education, higher education, and nonprofit sectors, partnering with organizational leaders to build systems that translate vision into sustainable, measurable outcomes. His work spans program design, strategic planning, organizational growth, leadership development, implementation support, and data-informed decision-making.
Ryan currently serves in a senior leadership role at The Jed Foundation, where he oversees national initiatives focused on student well-being, organizational strategy, implementation systems, and impact measurement across a large portfolio of partner institutions. His experience includes direct partnership work with schools, colleges and universities, nonprofits, public-sector collaborators, and philanthropic stakeholders.
Known for his collaborative and practical leadership style, Ryan specializes in helping organizations navigate complexity while maintaining clarity, alignment, and operational sustainability. His approach combines systems thinking, implementation science, equity-centered design, and measurable execution to support meaningful organizational change.
Ryan holds a Master of Science in Education Administration and Policy Studies from the University at Albany and an MBA from Boston University’s Questrom School of Business.
Strategy. Measurement. Sustainable Execution.
Blackline Advisory Consulting partners with schools, higher education institutions, nonprofits, and mission-driven organizations seeking to strengthen their impact through clearer strategy, stronger systems, and more sustainable implementation.
The consulting practice is grounded in a simple belief: meaningful impact requires more than good intentions. Organizations need aligned systems, actionable data, operational clarity, and leadership capacity to translate strategy into measurable progress.
Consulting engagements are rooted in:
Structured problem solving
Data-informed decision-making
Stakeholder collaboration
Equity-centered implementation
Capacity-building for long-term sustainability
Drawing from leading consulting practices, implementation science, and years of operational leadership experience, engagements are designed to move organizations from reactive problem-solving toward intentional, systems-level improvement.
Services may include:
Strategic planning and facilitation
Impact measurement and KPI development
Survey and reporting strategy
Program design and implementation support
Operational advisory
Executive coaching and leadership development
Organizational assessment and systems review
Each engagement is tailored to the organization’s goals, context, and capacity, with a focus on producing actionable outcomes rather than theoretical recommendations.
The ultimate goal is not simply to deliver a report or plan, but to help organizations build the internal systems, alignment, and leadership needed to sustain meaningful change over time. Submit the inquiry form to discuss your objectives and determine how a tailored consulting engagement can advance your strategic priorities.