At Sort Sol Group, we help mission-driven organizations confidently make strategic decisions in times of uncertainty.

Today’s challenges rarely fit neatly into a single discipline. That’s why Sort Sol Group takes an integrated approach—combining strategy, governance, leadership, business model innovation, and collaboration within our equity framework—to help organizations thrive in times of change.

We partner with boards, executive, staff, and community partners to align purpose, strengthen decision-making, cultivate cultures of belonging, and build resilient organizations equipped to create meaningful, sustainable impact. We lead change, together.

The Danish term “sort sol” refers to a natural phenomenon in which hundreds of thousands of starlings gather to collectively select a location to rest or avoid a predator. The imagery of sort sol connects with our values of community, partnership, and collaboration. The challenges we face are larger than any one person, organization, or sector can independently overcome – they require a unified effort to make an impact.

We later discovered that Sort Sol is also a Danish 1970s punk rock band with an affinity for leather. We have yet to find a profound connection between the band and our effort, but are open to suggestions!

Prior to founding Sort Sol Group and after spending over two decades in the financial services industry, Dennis began working at Forward Community Investments (FCI), a Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) based in Madison, WI.

CDFI’s plays an important role in generating economic growth and opportunity in some of the most distressed communities. By offering tailored resources and innovative programs that invest federal dollars alongside private sector capital, FCI takes a market-based approach to supporting historically disinvested communities.

Dennis was responsible for creating “Advisory Services”, a management consulting subsidiary of FCI, where he significantly grew the organizational budget while diversifying its revenue mix.

He left FCI in 2015 to create Sort Sol Group.

Individuals and communities who are disadvantaged as a result of complex, long-term, and systemic issues seek change.

Together, we lead changemakers to be a collective force for social justice.

  • Complexity is a cause for collaboration.
  • Individuals are committed to that which they help create.
  • Those most impacted by a decision should have voice in shaping it.
  • Robust and sustainable solutions come from embracing divergence.
  • Organizations who commit justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion concepts to their organizational values have greater impact on their communities and provide relevance in a rapidly changing world.

Equitable communities built by meaningful and sustainable social change.

Artificial intelligence (AI) strengthens our work in service of mission-driven organizations. Used responsibly, AI tools help accelerate research, generate insights, and support thoughtful analysis. At the same time, we believe that strategy, judgment, and leadership development must remain fundamentally human-centered.

Our approach is simple: AI augments our work—it never replaces expertise, experience, and ethical judgment.

We take a collective impact approach to create change, together.

Collective Impact is an effective framework for driving collaborative, multi-sector, and community empowered change. It requires diverse leaders from different types and sizes of social sector organizations, government agencies, businesses, and the community to work together on a common, transformative agenda.

Strong organizations are necessary, but often not sufficient to make the changes we desire. This is not a failure of the organization, but a factor of working on complex, systemic problems. Collective Impact is about mobilizing to create new solutions to complex problems, over the long term.

Sort Sol Group is a domestic limited liability company organized under the laws of the State of Wisconsin (United States of America), since 23 July 2015, and a Certified LGBT Business Enterprise through the NGLCC Supplier Diversity Initiative.