CONSULTANTS-NP.ORG - Key Persons


Connie Shapiro

Job Titles:
  • NPCG Consulting Areas
  • Principal of Connie Shapiro Associates
Key features of Connie Shapiro's background are elected and appointed official positions, leadership training program director, executive search, interim executive director of nonprofit organizations, and nonprofit management. Connie is a past President of the Board of Governors of the Commonwealth Club of California and the immediate past Co-Chair of the San Francisco Bay Area Region of Facing History and Ourselves. She served as Chairman of the Board of the Oakland Public Library Foundation, the Governance Committee for Coro Center for Civic Leadership, and the Literary Committee of the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco. Connie, principal of Connie Shapiro Associates, is an experienced nonprofit executive with a successful track record managing nonprofit organizations, serving as interim executive director of over 15 nonprofit organizations, conducting executive searches, managing staff, preparing and monitoring budgets, and recruiting and training board members. She also served as Director of the Public Affairs Leadership Training Program for Women of Coro, Northern California. She is highly organized, personable, results-oriented, and a clear communicator.

Diane Frankel

Job Titles:
  • NPCG Consulting Areas
  • Senior Associate of Management Consultants for the Arts
Key features of Diane Frankel's background are board recruitment and training, fundraising and executive coaching and nonprofit management and leadership. Diane was president of ArtTable, served as chair of the San Francisco Art Institute Board of Trustees and was a Trustee of the Alliance of Artists Communities. She is currently a member of the Tate African Art Council and the National Museum of African Art of the Smithsonian as well as Board Member of the Fort Mason Center for Arts and Culture.

Judy Weil

Job Titles:
  • NPCG Consulting Areas / Human Resources / Recruiting and Retention
Key features of Judy Weil's background are human resources management, entrepreneurial endeavors and nonprofit and public sector leadership.

Lynn Bunim

Job Titles:
  • NPCG Consulting Areas
Key features of Lynn Bunim's background are corporate government and community relations, non-profit board leadership, and civic affairs leadership. Lynn Bunim spent more than 25 years in executive external affairs positions at AT&T. She led the company's community positioning and public policy advocacy. She was recognized for her superior conceptual and strategic thinking, as well as her strong organizing, planning and implementing experience. Her highly regarded written and verbal communications skills enabled her to lead teams to their sought-after results. Lynn "shared" her corporate skills with the non-profit sector. While holding leadership positions on numerous non-profit boards, she brought corporate best practices to the non-profit sector.

Willie L. Brown

Job Titles:
  • Mayor
selected Lynn to chair the City of San Francisco's first Workforce Investment Board. For six years she directed a public/private 50-member board, which oversaw the highly regulated and closely monitored disbursal of federal, state and local funds to help the unemployed seek work. Her success inspired Mayor Brown to name her Chair, Mayor's Fiscal Advisory Committee. She managed this public/private board's efforts to secure corporate probono assistance and to move private sector best practices into the public sector. Education University of California at Berkeley, BA Coro Fellowship in Public Affairs Occidental College, MA Urban Affairs