Our Team
Meet the people behind the Waypoint of View
What if you could curate an ideal mix of minds to come together and solve the problem at hand? Your vision to make an impact becomes real and your company goals are achieved. This is what it’s like to work with Waypoint Collective. From skillsets and capabilities to personalities and perspectives, every mind behind each project is filled with big thinking and even bigger action.
Meet the Waypoint Team
Sarah Lehmann
Founder & Chief Strategist
Sarah Lehmann is Principal and Founder of Waypoint Collective leading a team of senior-level strategists, creatives, project managers, and technical experts in executing strategic and creative branding solutions.
Sarah’s passion lies in serving as a thought partner for nonprofit, education, and social impact organizations helping them craft results that elevate their visibility, communicate their unique value, and achieve the key goals of their mission.
For nearly two decades, Sarah has specialized in brand strategy, communications, marketing, and donor relations for nonprofit and impact-driven organizations. Prior to launching Waypoint, Sarah was co-owner of Ebb+Flow Creative and prior to that served as the vice president of marketing and communications for the Denver Public Schools Foundation. It was there that she helped execute a strategy that realized 112 percent growth in fundraising revenue from $6.6 million to $14.1 million during her five-year tenure. Before moving to the greater Denver area, Sarah served as marketing and public relations manager at the Vail Valley Foundation. Sarah began her career in 2002 as a reporter for the Vail Daily, and still considers herself a journalist and storyteller at heart.
In her free time, Sarah’s passions include volunteering with youth development and educational organizations, supporting other women in business, championing breast cancer research, and working to break down the stigma around mental health. She can also be found hiking, skiing and cheering on her Tarheels (often slopeside) with her husband Jon, or simply soaking in the Colorado sky alongside her three dogs.
Paul Abling
Digital Strategist
Paul has nearly 20 years of experience in marketing, communications, and media. He has spent time working for agencies and in high-level marketing roles for non-profit organizations specializing in education, arts & entertainment, adventure sports, environmental sustainability, climate action, and natural sciences. At his core, his purpose is simply to build a brighter future.
His focus with Waypoint is digital strategy, CRM, media, and branding. He has launched countless websites and overhauled tech stacks to help non-profits better leverage their own data while increasing leads for corporate sales, fundraising, and events. He's implemented and improved automation and workflows across multiple systems including donor CRM, events management, and marketing/sales. He has also managed paid media campaigns nationally and internationally across countless mediums. From TikTok to OTT, he's placed it.
Paul is a Colorado Native who spends most of his time on the Western Slope with his wife, two daughters, two birds, and two dogs. He'll admit, "it's a circus" but at least he has a ticket. In his free time, he can (or can't?) be found camping, climbing, paddling or skiing.
Kristina Bobrowski
Senior Director of Operations
Kristina brings over 13 years of communications, marketing and project management experience across a variety of industries including nonprofit, B2B, entertainment and associations. She executes projects through a balance of data-driven decisions, stakeholder collaboration and out-of-the-box ideas and by building strong, positive relationships with constituents and colleagues.
Before joining Waypoint, Kristina managed communications and membership for the American Cheese Society, upholding association branding and nurturing member relationships. Waypoint Collective marks her third time working with founder, Sarah Lehmann. The first was at the Denver Public Schools Foundation where Kristina led cause-marketing and fundraising events including their annual gala. The second was at Ebb+Flow Creative agency, doing project and operations management.
Prior to that, Kristina led marketing project management at Dow Corning and started her career in entertainment marketing. A native Detroiter, Kristina planted roots in Colorado in 2013 with her family.
Alex Cortes
Senior Designer
Alex has over eight years of design experience working on, and specializing in, the development and creation of visual identities, editorial and print design, web design and illustration at boutique agencies, branding firms and through her freelance design career. She is particularly passionate about working in partnership with nonprofit organizations and start-ups in making the world we inhabit a little more beautiful every day through good design and good causes.
Claire-Adele Curran
Agency & Project Coordinator
Claire-Adele brings over twelve years of project management expertise, blending experience from detail-oriented technical fields and creative, client-focused projects. She started her career as an advertising account manager in Auckland, New Zealand, and has led projects for creative agencies, tech organizations, and in-house digital marketers in a range of industries. Claire-Adele is passionate about helping both her clients and colleagues by being a collaborative, flexible business partner who keeps projects running smoothly.
Masha Myslovskaya
Account Manager & Strategist
Masha is a relationship builder and storyteller, passionate about elevating the voices of her community. For the past five years and counting, Masha has developed communications to advance the missions and visions for organizations in both the public and nonprofit sectors. Her background includes social media management, fundraising, event communication, public relations, grant management, content creation and copywriting. She comes to us most recently from Denver Scholarship Foundation, where she was the Marketing and Communications Manager, and brings incredible gifts of compassion, strategy, creativity and a keen eye for execution.
She has called Colorado home since moving in 2012. Masha loves to travel, hike, camp, try out new recipes, snowshoe, support local restaurants, and spoil her dog Abe.
Diane Pauley
Senior Content Strategist & Writer
Diane Pauley has spent the last eight years and counting helping mission-driven brands stand out in their respective industries with clear messaging and relevant language that enables them to attract, engage and connect with their audiences. Diane has worked both as a marketing professional and on the agency side, in nonprofit, health and wellness, education, tech and beyond. She is a connector, a storyteller and a strategic communicator who loves supporting organizations with their brand messaging, copywriting and content marketing efforts, so they can make their impact in the world known.
Lauren Perfors
Development Team Lead
Lauren brings nearly 20 years of executive-level SEO and marketing experience to Waypoint Collective, specializing in helping small businesses thrive through cutting-edge website design, management, and support.
Lauren manages a talented and tenacious team of developers who handle the technical side of running a business online so those businesses can focus on scaling and growth. Having a dedicated partner behind the scenes prepares clients' websites to grow right alongside their flourishing organization.
Lauren lives in Fort Collins, Colorado with her husband and two young daughters where they can be found running, biking, hiking, swimming, and doing all things outside whenever time and weather allow it.
Shum Prats
Senior Designer
Do great work and be nice in the process, that’s always been Shum's motto. And over the course of 25+ years, he's done that for Fortune 500 brands, to tiny boutique design shops working with startups, to leading global brands as Creative Director at rabble+rouser. In his years as Designer, Art Director and Creative Director Shum has overseen integrated advertising campaigns across emerging channels, TV, print, digital and social as well leading rebranding and design efforts for large-scale, corporate identity systems. In working directly with clients, he's developed strong relationships to deliver strategic and emotionally-resonant creative that also successfully achieves business goals.
Shum has worked with a wide range of people along the way: Apple, United Airlines, NFL, Vail Resorts, Weber Grills, MS Society, The North Face, American Express, Coors, Boeing and more.
Will Proto
Associate Designer
Will Proto has over 15 years of experience as a Creative Director/Senior Designer. He has worked for a variety of ad agencies, both big and small. Throughout his career, he has combined strategic thinking and creativity to develop unique and innovative marketing solutions that deliver positive business results.
Will has worked on a wide variety of brands - from beer and tampons to batteries and air fresheners, he enjoys bringing a fresh perspective to all of his projects.
Outside of work and family, Will enjoys cycling, snowboarding and a good IPA. Additionally, he moonlights as a fly fishing guide.
