Five modes, one practice

Advisory across clean energy, climate technology, and the impact economy.

Engagements at Among & Between take five shapes. Most decisions cross more than one — a fundraise that is also a partnership reset, a valuation that is also a governance moment. Each mode below names the work by the public evidence it draws on.

Years

20 yearsacross energy, technology, and the clean economy

Engagements

6 named engagementsacross the practice

Governance

1 boardThe Alliance Center

Practice scope

5 advisory modesstrategy, valuation, ecosystem, venture, governance

Strategic Advisory

Growth strategy, revenue acceleration, partnerships, M&A positioning, and capital strategy.

Strategy work moves at two clocks: the company's next eighteen months and the sector's next five years. A growth plan that ignores either fails. Strategic advisory at Among & Between holds both — what to ship now, what to position for, and which partnerships and capital structures buy the runway between the two. The pattern was sharpened across enterprise platforms in healthcare communications and connectivity infrastructure; it now applies across clean energy, climate technology, and the impact economy, where the two clocks are tighter and the policy variable is louder.

  • Growth strategy with capital horizon

  • Partnership terms before term sheet

  • M&A positioning, either side

  • Pricing and packaging resets

  • Board-level strategic narrative

Public evidence:

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Valuation

Business valuation, transaction support, and fairness opinions.

Valuation across clean energy, climate technology, and the impact economy sits between asset-heavy infrastructure conventions and software-shaped growth conventions, and neither rubric fits cleanly. The CVA credential through NACVA exists to keep the work inside a defended methodology — standard of value, premise of value, separation of enterprise from equity — when the underlying business is mixed. Engagements range from pre-transaction fairness opinions to dispute support to SBA workout valuations. Each report carries an explicit risk and assumption section; thin sources are flagged, not papered over.

  • Fairness opinions for transactions

  • Workout valuations for lenders

  • Dispute and litigation support

  • Pre-raise enterprise-value reads

  • Explicit risk and assumption flagging

Public evidence:

  • CVA credential issued and maintained by NACVA (2026).
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Ecosystem Architecture

Multi-stakeholder convening, cross-sector coalitions, platform building, and policy infrastructure.

Most climate problems sit across institutions that don't naturally talk: a utility, a developer, a regulator, a financier, a community. The architecture work is the design of the conversation — who is in the room, what gets decided where, which artifact each party can take back to its own governance. Ecosystem Architecture at Among & Between has shipped at utility scale through Realize2050's PG&E innovation engagement and at sector-data scale through the National Data Ecosystem (Confidential), where 50+ organizations now share data in real time. The pattern was sharpened during prior career work on political-coalition design (Dewey Square Group wind and technology coalitions, 2005–2008). The output is usually a working coalition with a defended scope, not a memo.

  • Cross-institutional convening design

  • Coalition scope and decision rights

  • Platform and policy infrastructure

  • Utility-scale innovation portfolios

  • Regulator and community alignment

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Venture Building

New-venture incubation, founder community design, and corporate venture build.

Venture building is the work of standing something up from a thesis: an internal venture inside a utility, a wind project with no policy tailwind, a community for climate founders. Each one needs a scope that survives contact with operating reality and a structure that gets to first capital without breaking. Venture-build work at Among & Between spans corporate R&D and A&B-incubated programs (Groundwork, an expert-led community for climate founders). The pattern was sharpened earlier in my career when I founded a firm focused on independent-power project development and worked with Invenergy as an anchor client (Orangeville Wind, 2007–2009).

  • Internal-venture scope and structure

  • First-capital-ready operating plans

  • Independent-power project shaping

  • Founder community and program design

  • Corporate R&D venture spin-outs

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Governance & Board Leadership

Board service, M&A working-group leadership, and governance design for founders and mission-driven organizations.

Governance across clean energy, climate technology, and the impact economy carries a structural problem: technical complexity, capital intensity, and policy exposure usually outpace what a generalist board can hold without dedicated working groups. Jonathan Lyons serves on the Board of The Alliance Center — a posture that pairs governance discipline with deal-level pattern recognition. Engagement shape ranges from board service to advisory governance design for founders and mission-driven organizations preparing first institutional capital or first independent director additions.

  • Independent board service

  • M&A working-group leadership

  • First-independent-director scoping

  • Pre-institutional governance design

  • Working-group structure and scope

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How engagements work

Most engagements involve more than one of the five modes. A growth-strategy build often becomes a valuation. A governance reset surfaces an ecosystem question. Engagement length ranges from a defined 30-day scoping window to multi-quarter advisory retainers. Each engagement opens with scoping — a short conversation, then a written scope before any work begins.

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Most engagements start with a 30-minute scoping conversation.

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