Linda Wood, senior program officer for the Haas, Jr. Fund’s Nonprofit Leadership and Governance program, leads the Fund’s work in shaping and implementing this program and launching our Flexible Leadership Awards program for key grantees.

Linda brings to the Fund extensive experience in building organizational leadership in both the nonprofit and the private sectors. Before joining the Fund, she worked for eight years as management consultant for Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, specializing in developing leadership, managing organizational change, and deploying technology. She also pioneered a large-group strategic planning process with corporations interested in building broad internal support for major changes within the company.

Before that, Linda ran her own consulting firm in Santa Fe, New Mexico, helping nonprofits strengthen their team-building practices and leadership capacities. Linda began her career in Chicago, where she ran programs in the arts and for inner-city youth and disabled adults.

Linda received her M.B.A. from the Walter A. Haas School of Business at University of California, Berkeley, where she concentrated in organizational behavior and nonprofit management, and her B.A. in Political Science and Spanish at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana.