An imperfect handcrafted wooden worktable with simple greenery against a navy wall

Strategy · Coaching · Team Building · Lufkin, Texas

Your next move starts at this table.

Bring the vision, the challenge, or the plan that needs momentum. Together, we’ll turn it into clear strategy, confident action, and a way forward that fits you.

Who we work with

People and teams building something worth building.

Startups

You have the idea and the fire. We help build the structure underneath it.

Nonprofit startups

Mission, governance, funding and the operating rhythm that keeps the good work going.

Businesses ready to pivot

A new season calls for a new model. We map the turn with you, step by step.

Teams ready to scale

Systems, staffing and margin discipline so growth strengthens what you built.

A plan ready to launch

The plan is good. We sit with you until it's up and running in real life.

Teams that want to grow closer

Team builds, retreats and give-back projects that bring people together around a shared win.

Team building

Great food, good laughs, and a team that leaves closer than it came.

We pair every team build with a meal and a genuinely good time. Bike builds, wheelchair builds for your community, church and team retreats that reset mission and vision, and plenty more.

The two of us

Over a decade each, in two very different worlds.

Britany Vinson

Britany Vinson

Owner & Executive Chef, Tomè · Best of Lufkin, 12 years running · Leadership

Twelve straight years of Best of Lufkin doesn’t happen by accident. Britany builds people the way she builds a kitchen, and she’s never afraid to get her hands dirty, in it or out of it.

Ashley Berry

Ashley Berry

Founder & CEO, East Texas Alliance of Hope · Pastor, Encounter Church · Certified Life Coach · Team Building

Twelve-plus years coaching youth and young adults, a nonprofit she founded, and a church she started. She says it best: “I wish I had a me when I was growing up.”

We’re connectors

We don’t have every answer. We know how to find them.

When your need sits outside our lane, we hand you to someone who has lived it. That’s why we’re building a network of operators, owners and specialists who’ve been where you are, and who still pick up the phone.

Get the free starter guide

Day One: the first moves to make when you’re building something new. Plus occasional notes from us. No noise.

A personal invitation

Bring us what you’re building. We’ll meet you there.

Tell Ashley and Britany what’s on your mind: the idea, the challenge, or the next move. One message reaches us both, wherever you are.