Cheryl Pruce

Cheryl Pruce is a Consultant for Essential Partners. Through her strategy consulting business, Monarch, she uses intuition-led facilitation and technical data prowess to catalyze transformational change for people and organizations. By fluidly navigating people and data, she unlocks the intellectual and creative energy and wisdom of her clients and helps them effectively use their data to deepen their impact. Her wellness roots run deep, and as a certified personal trainer, she is growing the second wing of her business: Liberated Butterfly Coaching, a personal training and holistic wellness coaching practice.

With technical training in data collection and analysis, research and evaluation, and applied statistics, Cheryl has spurred data-driven social impact throughout her 16 years in education policy research, philanthropy, and strategy consulting. She helped build out new work areas, portfolios, and teams for every organization of which she was a part, managing complex projects and teams. Outside of work, Cheryl formed and led a local grassroots dialogue initiative, supporting bridge-building across differences. 

Cheryl graduated with distinction from Stanford University with a Bachelor’s degree in Urban Studies with Honors in Education and a Master’s degree in Sociology. As a Fulbright Scholar, she conducted research on social inequality and labor-market stratification, and taught dance classes at a cross-cultural community center. She has an Executive Certificate in Facilitation from Georgetown University’s Institute for Transformational Leadership.