Center for Nonprofit and Public Leadership
Faculty
Nora Silver is Director of the Center and Adjunct Professor at the Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley. She brings over 30 years of leadership experience as a nonprofit founder, executive director and board member. She has consulted internationally with more than 200 organizations, authored books and articles on leadership and community involvement and taught at universities and conferences around the world.
Courses Taught: Strategic Management of Nonprofit Organizations, Social Sector Solutions, Economics of Philanthropy
Shashi Buluswar leads the San Francisco office of Dalberg Global Development Advisors where he works with multicultural institutions, foundations, NGOs, governmental agencies and corporations on issues including institution building, post-conflict reconstruction, economic development, education and microfinance services.
Courses Taught: Strategic Approaches to International Development
Tom Courtney is an experienced consultant and trainer in the field of nonprofit financial management and accounting, having taught over 2,500 nonprofit employees and volunteers. For over two decades Courtney has held executive financial management positions, including CFO and Director of Finance, in the nonprofit sector and has authored several articles for the nonprofit field.
Courses Taught: Financial Management of Nonprofit Organizations
Paul Jansen is Director Emeritus from McKinsey & Company where he co-founded and led the Global Nonprofit Practice serving leading nonprofits and foundations on issues of strategy and organization. He is the author of many articles and reports challenging sector beliefs about performance, including a co-authored report entitled, The Dynamic Board: Lessons from High-Performing Nonprofits.
Courses Taught: Social Sector Solutions
Jonathan Klein is Chief Program Officer for the Rogers Family Foundation, with responsibility for investment strategy and partnership development. He is former Executive Director of Teach for America, Bay Area and Founder of Oakland Schools Foundation, which he now serves as Board President.
Courses Taught: Leading and Managing Nonprofit Organization
Lynne LaMarca Heinrich is a Senior Consultant at Marts & Lundy, Inc. where she serves museums, educational institutions, performing arts organizations, foundations, environmental organizations and health and human service agencies. She has worked closely with faculty, boards, staff and donors to provide strategic planning and advancement services, board leadership training and counsel for organizational change.
Courses Taught: Nonprofit Boards: Governance and Leadership in Nonprofit Organizations
Amy Lesnick is the CEO of Full Circle Fund and has over 20 years of leadership experience in business and nonprofits. She was honored as one of the “Bay Area’s Most Influential Women in Business” in 2008 and 2009.
Courses Taught: Economics of Philanthropy
James Lincoln is the Mitsubishi Chair in International Business and Finance, Professor in the Haas Management of Organizations Group and serves as Faculty Research Director for the Center.
Darian Rodriguez Heyman serves as Director of Business Development & Communications at the Carbon War Room to harness the power of entrepreneurs to solve climate change. He is the former Executive Director of Craigslist Foundation (CLF) and founder of CLF Nonprofit Boot Camp.
Courses Taught: Economics of Philanthropy
Jane Wei-Skillern is a former faculty member in the Social Enterprise group at Harvard Business School. Her research, focused on the leadership and management of social enterprises, examines the topics of nonprofit growth and management of multi-site nonprofits and most recently has been focused on nonprofit networks.
Course Taught: Social Entrepreneurship, Strategic Management of Nonprofit Organizations
