Jeff Grossberg

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Overview

Jeff Grossberg, Founding Partner of Guidestone Consulting, supports the success of numerous enterprises through strategic, financial and organizational development. As well as addressing the needs of each organization, his work focuses on avenues leading toward a healthier future for all people and our planet.

Jeff has consulted with more than 75 clients in the realms of sustainability, socially responsible business and capital, philanthropy, community development, educational reform and youth, integral health, and peace making, in both for-profit and non-profit arenas.

He helps his clients clarify their vision, while anticipating key trends and opportunities, navigating uncertainty to make better strategic decisions. He assists in creating strategic and business plans and building aligned and highly functioning teams that foster individual initiative in a collaborative environment. Jeff brings to each venture a focus on authentic leadership that includes personal as well as organizational development.  

He also specializes in and excels at fundraising, having raised many millions of dollars, providing him with a significant network of major donors and foundations.

Jeff’s work often involves actively facilitating strategic alliances. As well, he coaches executives, individuals and teams, both as independent projects and as part of broader organizational change efforts. A pathfinder and problem-solver, he has spent several decades creating and sharing new and better ways to get things done.

Background

Jeff has honed his skills through such diverse endeavors as serving as CEO of several fifty-plus-million dollar enterprises, living in a spiritual community and in an ecovillage, and raising millions of dollars for numerous social change enterprises.  Jeff has been the Executive Director of the Omega Institute, the Waldorf Alliance Foundation, the Achievable Foundation, and the Children’s Media Resources, as well as the Director of Development for the Girl Scouts. He has long been deeply involved in innovative social entrepreneurship as a means of working with the world as it is to create a world as we want it to be.

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• Founder of the Bridge Philanthropic Advisors, a company that provides donors with access to leading advisors in numerous fields promoting social good to help guide their giving to be more values-aligned and strategic. 

• Strategic and financial development for the Institute for Middle East Peace and Development, a major bi-partisan effort to promote peace in the Middle East and transform international relations by helping local and regional Civil Society Organizations to support locally-led, workable, moderate alternatives to counter radical perspectives

• Strategic and business planning for Inspired Legacies, a recently formed national organization working to generate billions of dollars among progressive donors, organizations, financial institutions and advisors

• Strategic and financial development for Reuniting America, a major transpartisan effort to create common territory between the currently often-divisive political agendas in America

• Strategic and financial development for Global Response

• Financial development for the Mind & Life Institute, which creates dialogues and research collaborations between modern science and contemplative traditions

• Strategic, organizational and financial development for the Global Leadership Network

• Strategic coordination of national-scale educational transformation efforts for The Impact Foundation and Reimagine Education

• Strategic development for the Institute of Noetic Sciences

• Strategic development for the Organic Center for Education and Promotion

• Strategic development for socially oriented venture capital funds – Greenmont Capital Partners (natural products industry) and Boulder Sustainable Partners (“green real-estate”)

• Financial development for the Earth Council Alliance, a worldwide organization working to implement the Earth Charter and UN directed initiatives to develop a sustainable future

• Strategic and financial development for Self Design Learning, a network of families and learning consultants focused on children learning personal fulfillment and excellence.

• Strategic planning for Growing Bridges, an international youth leadership development program integrating somatic, social, intellectual and spiritual approaches

• Strategic development and business planning for Transforming How the World Works with Money, a program of the Rudolf Steiner Foundation, the Fetzer Institute, and the Tides Foundation

• Strategic and financial development for Rainmaker Institute (cooperating non-profit and for-profit organizations, developing sustainably built time-share resort and an Indigenous support network)

• Strategic and financial development for PassageWorks Institute (promotes social and emotional learning)

• Strategic and financial development for TSA Farm, a 25-year land trust and largest CSA in Colorado

• Serves on four nonprofit boards and participates in numerous gatherings exploring leadership, philanthropy and social innovation

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