Reveillon Solutions

Reveillon Solutions helps nonprofits and other mission-driven organizations be the best they can be, empowering them to work faster, smarter, and more effectively.

We offer strategic consulting and advisory services that optimize operations and leverage risk to drive organizational change and deliver on mission objectives in ways that strengthen and enhance internal culture.

Réveillon is the French word for “reawakening” pronounced rev-ee-yon. In New Orleans, where I’m from, it also means something more: Réveillon is an annual celebration held during the holiday season, in the last nights of the year, where friends and family gather around a multi-course feast to reflect on the past and toast the possibilities promised by the coming new year.
What Reveillon Solutions is all about is helping clients understand where they’ve been, and propelling them forward – together – toward a brighter future. That’s the spirit behind the name. Managing risk, improving ways of working, and preparing for change doesn’t have to be all doom and gloom. It can be a celebration – of new possibilities and new impact. Let Reveillon Solutions reawaken your organization around a shared mission, and devise actionable, practical plans to help you get there – together.

PHERABE KOLB

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Pherabe Kolb has spent decades inside knowledge-based nonprofits, driving collaborative change, leveraging risk to deliver impact, and optimizing systems and processes to enable mission success. As founder and CEO of Reveillon Solutions LLC, Pherabe can draw upon a nearly three-decade career in roles that span communications and marketing, government relations and legal affairs, operational management and enterprise risk. She has held key leadership positions at some of the most respected nonprofit organizations in the country, including the Smithsonian Institution and the Aspen Institute.

A strategic thinker and savvy communicator, Pherabe is not afraid to dive into a hot mess to find out what’s getting in the way of forward progress. She’s also a keen issue-spotter who can surface problems and work with you to map out the steps to solve them in ways that acknowledge that money and staff time do not grow on trees. And she can create the messaging and communications strategies you will need to change hearts and minds, enabling you to win every vote for your project or process change so everyone gets a win. She loves working without a blueprint, taking on lost causes, and moving immovable objects, and is a great complement to any leadership team looking to jumpstart the next chapter.

Professional Experience

From 2018-2024, Pherabe was a Vice President at the Aspen Institute where she built and optimized operational capacity during a period of tremendous growth and change. She led the first-ever enterprise risk assessment of the Institute and developed and executed a multi-year strategy to mitigate the areas of greatest risk, building a risk-aware culture along the way. She also led multiple cross-Institute initiatives and projects to strengthen and improve policies and processes while improving the quality and efficiency of operational functions across the organization.

From 2015-2018, she was Aspen’s Managing Director of Communications & Public Affairs where she led external affairs strategy and a 23-person team, extending the reach and impact of the Aspen Institute’s mission through websites, social media, video, press relations, and print publications.

Pherabe worked previously at the Smithsonian Institution, where she spent 13 years in central leadership positions across government relations, financial and administrative management, brand strategy and marketing, and internal communications. Major initiatives she led included the first-ever Institution-wide strategic plan and a multi-year project to revitalize the Smithsonian brand.

Dartmouth College Bachelor of Arts in History, Cum Laude with High Honors
Northwestern University School of Law Juris Doctor; Articles Editor, Northwestern University Law Review
Board Member, Greater Greater Washington, a DC area nonprofit dedicated to making the Washington area an affordable, walkable, and equitable place to live for all.
Co-owner, Mott’s Neighborhood Market, a community-owned corner store in Capitol Hill.
Member, Eastern Market Community Advisory Committee, Ad Hoc Subcommittee on Public Safety.
A native of New Orleans, Pherabe lives in Washington, DC, in a 100+ year-old Capitol Hill row house she loves. An accomplished home cook, she enjoys trying new restaurants and visiting farmers markets in her precious spare time.