Ann Shulman

Ann Shulman has over twenty years of experience working with foundations and non-profits to diagnose challenge areas and help build organizational capacity to address them. Ann uses her expertise in facilitation, conflict resolution, leadership skills training and intra-organizational communications and decision-making to help organizations manage internal operational issues — from designing high-impact grant-making programs, to planning and facilitating high stakes meetings and retreats, to resolving governance issues on boards of directors.

Ann’s focus is on environmental programs, as well as foundations and NGO’s working in the fields of education, health and human well being, reproductive rights, criminal justice reform and women’s philanthropy. She is passionate about using the power of effective communication to transform human systems to do their good work even better.

Ann has extensive experience in leadership curriculum design and delivery, having trained the leadership and staff of organizations ranging from Fortune 100 and 500 companies to top-ten foundations to academic institutions to small family foundations and local community groups. She also serves as a professional executive coach, mediator, facilitator and trainer. Ann brings an international perspective, having worked in over a dozen countries.

She is the former President of the Northern California Mediation Association, is a past Executive Director of the Greater Good Science Center at U.C. Berkeley and is on its Board, is the Vice Chair of the West Marin Fund Board of Directors, is on the Board of Directors of the Blue Sky Funders Forum, and is the Program Director of the Lampert Byrd Foundation’s Environmental Stewardship Fund.

Ann earned her B.S. in Psychology from Duke University, her J.D. from U.C. Berkeley Boalt Hall School of Law, and her LL.M. in International Law from the European University Institute. She is an adjunct faculty member of the Hastings College of Law in San Francisco where she teaches courses on facilitation.