Driving Social Change Through Collaboration

About Salvador López, Modos Founder

Salvador is the President & CEO of KConnect, where he helps advance a future in which every child and family has the opportunity and support to thrive, no matter their starting point. Through KConnect’s mission of connecting people, organizations, and data, he works to mobilize collective action for lasting systems change.

With nearly two decades of experience working in the public sector, including nearly a decade in higher education, Salvador has built equitable systems that support students, faculty, and staff. He is also a Harvard EdRedesign Cradle-to-Career Fellow, bringing a strong systems-change lens to his leadership and community work.

His work centers on building partnerships, facilitating cross-sector collaboration, and using storytelling with data visualization to help communities address disparities and improve outcomes for all. He also serves as Chair of the Grand Rapids Community College Board of Trustees and on several community and statewide boards.

Salvador holds a Master of Science in Communications and lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan with his wife and three children.

Key Qualifications:

What’s in a Name

Modos = Spanish · noun · plural — “ways,” “means,” “manners”

From the phrase De Todos Modos — “by all means.” It’s a declaration. An insistence that the path to value is not fixed, not exclusive, and not siloed.

The name came first from a phrase, and the phrase came from a conviction. De Todos Modos — by all means — is the kind of thing you say when you’re committed to finding a way through, regardless of what stands in the way. It is persistence without rigidity. Resourcefulness as a philosophy.

Modos Consulting was founded to work with organizations, communities, and leaders who need a professional facilitator, an evaluator, and a data storyteller — someone who can take complex information and translate it into something that actually moves people. Not just informs them. Moves them.

“The goal is never to impress with methodology. The goal is to deliver real value — de todos modos — by whatever means the work requires. Some clients need a room facilitated through a difficult conversation. Some need their program data visualized in a way their board can finally understand. And some need an outside eye to evaluate what’s working and help them tell that story to funders, policymakers, or the public.”

All of it falls under the same north star: make understanding more accessible than it was before we arrived.