Kate Seely

About Kate Seely

I am a collaborative and relational leader focused on transformative outcomes fueled by connection and community at work. I support and encourage the leadership and cultures that are needed for communities, and the individuals within them, to thrive. I create spaces and cultures focused on employee experience and community, spaces that fuel co-creation, engagement, and impact. With deep listening and emotional intelligence, I employ positive, creative approaches to leadership, organization, program, and staff development, and organizational culture. I am committed to and passionate about using philanthropy and the social sector to build equitable spaces and work towards justice and liberation. Skills include: Leadership Development, Organization Development + Change, Organizational Culture, Racial Equity, Diversity, and Belonging, Training + Facilitation, Project Design + Management, Experience Design, Participatory Practices, Deep listening, Consensus Building, Relationship Building. Fields of expertise include equity and belonging, leadership development, philanthropy, food systems, international development, and sustainability.

Experience

1. Senior Director, Leadership, Culture and Community

   Northern California Grantmakers

   Sep 2015 — Present

   I am responsible for creating and executing a strategy to advance leadership, professional development, and organizational culture within the philanthropic sector. To this end, I design, curate, and lead programming that supports our member community to advance equity and accountability in their grantmaking and their organizations, and that fosters cultures of belonging and thriving. Internally, I lead organization wide strategies, processes, and experiences toward the same ends.

Education

• Middlebury College

  BA, Latin American Studies - Politics and Literature

  1999 — 2003

• Blekinge Institute of Technology

  Master's in Strategic Leadership towards Sustainability

  2013 — 2014

Skills

• Fundraising
• Social Media
• International Development
• Sustainability
• Leadership Development
• Entrepreneurship
• Program Management
• Strategic Planning
• Proposal Writing
• Capacity Building
• Workshop Facilitation
• Philanthropy
• Nonprofits
• Internal Communications
• Program Development
• Team Building
• Management
• Grant Writing
• Organizational Development
• Event Planning
• Non-Profits
• Grants