Meredith Wilson Parfet

The CEO and founder of boutique crisis management consultancy Ravenyard Group, Meredith Wilson Parfet is also a hospice chaplain and a death doula, allowing her to bring a unique blend of crisis management expertise and compassionate care to her work. She combines practical tools honed through personal and professional crisis experiences to help clients navigate complex challenges with strategic acumen and emotional intelligence.

Wilson Parfet conceived Ravenyard as a way of harnessing her learnings -- personal and professional -- to help leaders manage, survive, and even thrive through crisis. She understands that people in a professional crisis need something more than what is generally packaged as crisis management. They need structure and order from the chaos. They frequently need domain expertise. And most importantly, they need support for their well-being.

For better and worse, Wilson Parfet has experienced crises across all areas of her life, including the tragic loss of her sister in 2006, her own near death in 2011, and a significant business crisis in 2018. She believes in the inevitability of suffering for all people, and the ability to survive it in transformative, meaningful ways.

Wilson Parfet is an accomplished investor, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. She has nearly two decades of asset management and hedge fund experience, including acting as the Chief Operating Officer for two alternative investment funds. She also co-founded Denali Venture Philanthropy, an investment organization that funds entrepreneurs who are committed to social change. Wilson Parfet has led organizations of all sizes, from small start-ups to complex, global operations.

She holds an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management, an MA in Spiritual Care from the Iliff School of Theology, and a BA in Political Science from Northwestern University.