Mizh Consultants
Mizh Consultants was founded in 2025 to help organizations and community members grow and pursue positive change. Our philosophy is that we all can achieve incredible results with the proper motivation and support. Mizh specializes in finding custom solutions to unique problems, and we have a track record of success building on established processes to innovate new solutions for businesses, nonprofits, community leaders, and individuals with creative ideas.
Mizh’s name is inspired by the Ukrainian word “між” – meaning “between.” By building links between individuals, organizations, and communities, our consultants have achieved inspiring results on past projects. In creating Mizh, our goal is to continue and expand that cooperation, because cooperation is the foundation of success.
With that is mind, Mizh is built as a network. We connect our experts wherever they are needed. If you need a subject matter expert for your project, or you are interested in partnering with us or joining our network, contact us to learn more.
Our Team
Paul Lord
Founder and Lead Consultant
plord@mizhconsultants.com
Paul is a Learning and Capacity Building Specialist with more than 10 years of professional experience. A linguist and coach by training, he started working in university student development in 2014 before working as a Youth Development Specialist for 4 years in Ukraine from 2015 to 2019. He has designed and facilitated dozens of trainings for both youth and adult participants, covering topics such as civic engagement, youth development, volunteering, mental health, physical health and education, and project design and management. His work also includes policy and program development around the Ukrainian Law of Education which was passed in 2017, organizational development for U.S. nonprofits and international NGOs, and language training and coaching for Eastern Slavic languages and learners of English as a second language.
Since 2020, Paul has worked as a US-based organizational capacity specialist. He completed several nonprofit consultancy projects in Oregon, and served on the Board of a language-based nonprofit school for the 2020-2021 school year. His most recent work includes Business Development for international companies in the Washington D.C. area. He has managed winning project proposals in the Balkans, South America, Central Asia, and Africa, and designed custom business strategies for Eastern Europe and the Middle East. His volunteer work over this period includes advising Ukrainian nonprofits on fundraising, grants, and partnership engagement.
He holds a Master’s in Nonprofit Management and is currently pursuing a Master’s in Applied Linguistics.