About SunSinger Consulting, LLC

Dawn Houle is President and founder of SunSinger Consulting, LLC, a Washington, DC based Native American woman-owned company. She has dedicated her life to fostering strategic partnerships for and with Native American Tribes, artists, business owners and people. She is the author of Business Success Secrets: Entrepreneurial Thinking That Works, a Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestseller.  

SunSinger Consulting optimizes business opportunities for Native American Tribal governments and individuals.  Dawn specializes in assisting her clients build key strategies, access better resources, improve their communities and protect and foster their heritage.  She offers culturally-based modern solutions to Tribes while enhancing natural resource sustainability, generating economic diversification, creating employment opportunities and participating in greenhouse effect prevention. 

Dawn successfully builds instrumental strategic partnerships with corporations and federal and state agencies, that greatly benefit her clients. She served as Policy Advisor to the Assistant Secretary of Indian Affairs for President Barack Obama and Chief of Staff for the National Indian Gaming Commission. Prior to that, she served for over a decade in the Pacific Northwest in forest management and philanthropy for Indian Tribes. As founder and executive director of the Tulalip Tribes Foundation, a 501(c)(3) focused on cultural and natural resource preservation, Dawn helped to secure funding for a new museum and natural history preserve for the Tulalip Tribes. 

Dawn earned a B.S. in Forestry from the University of Montana and an M.B.A. from Saint Martin’s University. She serves on the University of Montana W.A. Franke College of Forestry Advisory Board, the Tewathahon:ni Mohawk Networks Board of Directors, Southwest Association of American Indian Arts (Santa Fe Indian Market) Board of Directors and is a Sundial fellow with SheaMoisture. Dawn is a tribal citizen of the Chippewa Cree Tribe of Montana.