Our Team & Story

A Multidisciplinary Team that Cares Deeply About Your Mission

There is no need to fragment your support when you have access to a multidisciplinary team who can streamline your efforts. We are consultants, strategists, researchers, data-analysts, and nonprofit leaders who have walked in your shoes. From direct service to data strategy, our team brings over 75 years of nonprofit leadership experience—walking with organizations through real challenges, real growth, and real impact.

Our model is relationships. Veering far from transactional, we will build deep relationships with you and your organization to uncover what you most need… and then together, address it head on.

Our Core Conviction: We believe that all persons were made in the image and likeness of God, and value all human life from conception to natural death.

Core Values

Our deep confidence that provision comes from God alone is the animating principle which guides our decision-making and gives us an inspired audacity.

We are slow to discern and quick to act.

We value relentless problem-solving and seek honest solutions that address root issues.

Motivated by impact, we look to see what is broken and ask hard questions embracing failure as a step towards innovation.  

We believe that all people were made for relationship. As image-bearers we value people over business, we pursue transformational connections, celebrating, supporting, and praying for one another as a family committed to change through relationship.

We commit to humble engagement, laying aside our egos and fostering an environment where everyone can speak up, be authentic, and embrace vulnerability. We boldly utilize our unique gifts, acknowledging our limitations while continuously seeking growth and learning.

We create space to delight in life – intentionally prioritizing family, relationships, and health – ordering our time to focus on what is most important.

We commit to keeping first things first and embracing seasons of both work and rest.      

Our People

Stacey Chik

President

Colin LeCroy

Vice President, Co-founder

Tim Chik

National Director of Strategic Partnerships

Adam Henrichs

Director of Data Services

Darcie Tallman

Human Resources Manager

Tiffany Pitcher

Senior Consultant

Heather Isaac

Director of Consulting Services

Tim Furrer

Senior Data Strategist

Our Founding Story

Our story is one of God drawing men and women together in relationship to develop a new approach. An approach that transforms entire communities, increasing their capacity to love those most vulnerable.

In 2019, co-founders Jeremy Aranda and Colin LeCroy met as coworkers at a national nonprofit operating a network of clinics across the country.  Their task was to help the organization reach its potential through innovation, data-driven insights, and a rigorous discipline of operational excellence and continual improvement. Through their work, they began to see that initial intervention in the midst of a crisis was not enough to transform the way a vulnerable individual responds. 

Jeremy and Colin began to recognize that a nonprofit’s budget and caseload constraints made it impossible for the organization’s staff to offer the deeply personal and long-term care that was needed to transition an individual from entrenched instability to long-term stability.  They needed a new model.

Life on Belay launched in 2020 to pursue this mission. As a collective of talented and experienced leaders from across the nonprofit space, we are committed to helping communities increase their capacity to love the people they serve. Christians are individually called to serve and love our neighbors in a way that affirms their dignity, establishes God’s kingdom, and brings peace to their community. This service should extend beyond an initial crisis response and into vulnerable individuals’ lives. 

At Life on Belay, we believe that God designed the family with a particular plan in mind. It’s our goal to equip nonprofits, churches, and other frontline organizations with the tools they need to offer vulnerable individuals and families with the opportunities that allow them to build a life consistent with God’s design, in which they are free from fear and shame and able to flourish.

Driven by deep relationships, empowered by data, and convicted by the Lord

We exist to walk alongside you—bringing clarity, strategy, and care—so that together we can build stronger communities where every person is valued and supported. Grounded in relationship, guided by data, and led by faith, we help you move beyond crisis response toward lasting transformation.