Managing Director
Emily Wexler has dedicated her professional career to serving as partner, facilitator, network weaver and systems strengthener to mission-driven organizations. Emily began her career as a community organizer and still relies on this training as a touchstone in her consulting practice. As a Managing Director at NPAG, Emily works to ensure that her nonprofit partners have the strategy, capacity, culture, and resources they need to grow stronger and achieve more. Emily works with a diverse portfolio of nonprofit clients that include foundations, philanthropic support organizations, grantmaking intermediaries, direct service providers and social justice organizations. Drawing on principles of adaptive leadership and change management, she brings a coaching and learning mindset to each engagement. In addition to leading searches across different organizational levels and functions, Emily provides a range of organizational development services to her clients, such as designing inclusive and equitable processes, ensuring smooth leadership transitions, and preparing organizations for their next chapter of growth.
Prior to joining NPAG, Emily worked as an independent consultant as well as Associate Director of the Social Sector Accelerator, a grantmaking intermediary and nonprofit consultancy. Emily worked at Grantmakers for Effective Organizations for 8.5 years and served as Director of GEO’s peer learning programs. Emily received her Master's in Public Policy from Duke University and a Bachelor's degree from Oberlin College. An avid reader and runner, Emily lives with her husband and her two beautiful and wild children in Brussels, Belgium.