. . . has provided strategic consulting services to nonprofit boards for nearly 15 years. She has consulted to nonprofits ranging in budget size from $250 million to $25,000, all across the U.S. Emily works with social service, cultural, environmental, and educational institutions. Her services include:

• Board accountability, decision making, training, development, systems and processes, and coaching
• Strategy and planning
• Organizational assessments
• Board and CEO succession planning
• Executive transition consulting and executive search
• Retreats and facilitation

Emily’s approach is to enhance alignment among her client’s strategy, board, staff, structure, culture, values, and mission delivery. Emily works with boards and Executive Directors as they face difficult decisions and challenges, helping them focus on strategy and successfully manage internal and external change. She works with boards to ensure they take a comprehensive, system-wide approach to accountability. Emily also assists with board development and training, implementing appropriate systems and processes, enhancing relationships with the CEO and staff, creating meaningful agendas and leading effective board meetings, and coaching for effective leadership.

Emily has extensive experience assisting nonprofits with executive transitions, whether the situation involves a departing founder or long-term CEO, a revolving-door scenario, a voluntary or forced departure, or whether the departure is planned or sudden. She is especially adept at helping the organization understand the reasons for departure, in comprehensively assessing the organization and its needs for new management, and in leading the organization through a comprehensive, methodical, and transparent process to ensure the success of the new leader.

Emily has worked in both the corporate and nonprofit sectors. She served as Director of Executive Search at The Management Center, Director of the West Coast Nonprofit Practice for A.T. Kearney, and Executive Vice President of the Nonprofit Practice for DHR International. She also has extensive experience as a board member, serving on the nonprofit boards of the Pearl Theatre Company in New York, Interfaith Hospitality Network in San Mateo, Z Space Studio in San Francisco, and Beth Israel Sisterhood in Ann Arbor.

Emily holds a Bachelor’s degree from Northwestern University and studied abroad at the University of Sussex in England. She has completed coursework for her Master’s of Human Resources and Organization Development at University of San Francisco, where her thesis will focus on the emerging topic of nonprofit board accountability. Emily also has conducted surveys on industry trends, written thought-papers, served as guest lecturer at the University of Michigan and Haas School of Business, and served on the selection panel for Craigslist Venture Philanthropy Forum. She is a member of Bay Area Organization Development Network, Alliance for Nonprofit Management, and BoardSource.