Walter Howell is a senior consultant at Community Wealth Partners where he leads inclusive, stakeholder-centric planning processes, with a focus on supporting, coaching, and advising nonprofits, foundations, and community collaboratives across the country in strategy, organizational structure and culture, and implementation. Walter has worked closely with the Wells Fargo Regional Foundation’s nonprofit and community partners for years, managing a cohort-based training and capacity building program to bolster the impact of resident-driven, neighborhood-based collaboratives in the foundation’s portfolio of grantees. Throughout his career, Walter has worked with organizations in the fields of affordable housing, education, and neighborhood-focused economic and community development. Walter brings a deep understanding of intentional influence, or the ways changemakers can move people—including communities—to action to solve problems.