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Maximize your organization's potential by aligning strategy, goals, and communication.
Align teams with clarity by improving communication, decision-making, and accountability.
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Making Magic With Clients

"Unyong is an insightful thought partner and a strategic mastermind, epitomizing 'value add.' Her expertise in forging strategic partnerships and crafting integrated communications strategies has significantly advanced our initiatives."

Executive Director
Non-Profit Organization
"For years, Unyong has provided me and my company with the rarest of combinations: insights, effectiveness, and contagious energy. She is the total package – and fun to work with. I look forward to many more years of productive collaboration."

Executive Publisher & Editor
Business Media
"Working with Nakata Advisory was an absolute game-changer for our business. We worked through strategic initiatives from inception through execution and the innovative recommendations led us to growth and efficiency beyond our projections. Her professional guidance and support were instrumental in transforming our business and enhancing our competitive edge in the market."

Founder & CEO
Technology
"I am eternally grateful to Nakata Advisory. As a budding non-profit organization, Unyong guided us through our start-up phase by supporting board development, sharing her deep understanding and experience with fundraising, donor stewardship, and expanding all of our social channels. I leave every meeting feeling streamlined and inspired by the depth of her thought processes as well as her creative ideas of growth."

Founder & Executive Director
Non-Profit
"Unyong was great to work with – she was professional, insightful, positive, and a great ball of energy which you want for an emcee. She was an outstanding partner as she cared about bringing forth the best event possible. The impression she left permeated the event as she elevated and mentored around her."

President
Professional Membership Organization
"We have had the pleasure of working with Unyong Nakata for over a year. We were in need of an external perspective to focus, align and enhance our marketing, networking and engagement efforts. Unyong was able to bring that perspective as well a strategic, organized approach to achieving our goals. She is well-connected in the community and brings professional integrity, passion, and energy to everything she does. Unyong is a valuable, trusted partner. "

HR/Marketing Manager
Family-Owned Contract Furnishers

About Unyong

Unyong Nakata
Founder & Principal
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Unyong Nakata is the Founder and Principal of Nakata Advisory, LLC, where she specializes in driving sustainable growth and enterprise strength through innovative problem-solving and strategic partnerships. Guided by the core values of Integrity, Compassion, Innovation, and Fun, Unyong is committed to creating value and achieving tangible outcomes for her client partners.

Unyong Nakata is the Founder and Principal of Nakata Advisory, a strategic consultancy known for turning ideas into action and complexity into results. With more than 20 years of experience across nonprofit advancement, corporate leadership, and board service, she delivers scalable solutions rooted in values, powered by relationships, and aimed at growth.
Her expertise spans strategic planning and board retreats, business development strategy, leadership and fundraising training, organizational alignment, and impact storytelling. Recognized for building momentum and forging connections across people, sectors, and ideas, Unyong equips mission-driven organizations to move with clarity and confidence.
She has been honored by Hawaii Business Magazine as one of the “20 for the Next 20,” Pacific Business News for “Women Who Mean Business” and “Forty Under 40,” the Chamber of Commerce of Hawaii as “Young Professional of the Year,” and AFP–Aloha Chapter as “Outstanding Professional Fundraiser of the Year.”
Committed to impact beyond her practice, Unyong has contributed more than two decades of community service and currently serves on the boards of the Domestic Violence Action Center, Navian Hawaii, and Housing Hawaii’s Future. She also hosted the Hawaii Business Magazine Podcast for its first two seasons, amplifying voices from across Hawaii’s business and nonprofit sectors.
Unyong holds a Bachelor of Science in Microbiology and an MBA from the University of Hawaii at Manoa.