Nora is a seasoned psychologist, helping people find careers and build lives of purpose. As a serial entrepreneur, Nora has founded a number of nonprofit social enterprises and created unique collaborations of corporate, community and family foundations united to strengthen and diversify volunteerism in the United States. This included running the Volunteerism Project, created to build a Bay Area system involving more people in meaningful community engagement, as well as chairing Board Match Plus.
Nora has led CSSL to be ranked second in the country (US News & World Report, 2017) and first among business schools in social impact (Business as Unusual, 2014). As an organizational consultant, she has worked with hundreds of organizations worldwide on strategy and organizational development, cross-sector collaboration, community engagement, and board and executive development. As a Haas professor, Nora teaches a course on Social Movements.
Nora holds a PhD in organizational and clinical psychology. She is the author of Telling the Whole Story: Voices of Ethnic Volunteers in America, and At The Heart: The New Volunteer Challenge to Community Agencies as well as papers on multi-sector leadership and next generation social sector leadership.
