Consultants

About Our Consultants

ESC’s volunteer, executive-level consultants bring decades of professional experience and a wealth of skills to their roles.  Each of our 100+ consultants shares a passionate desire to make a difference, helping nonprofits face their most pressing challenges – and making our community an extraordinary place in which all can thrive.

ESC’s volunteer consultants come from diverse professional backgrounds with senior management experience in business, nonprofit organizations, academia, and government. This experience, combined with ESC’s intensive training and continuing education, turns their commitment to community service into transformational results for the nonprofit leaders who are our clients.

Becoming a Consultant

ESC trains and supports our volunteers in a client-centered approach based on a coaching model that employs active listening, facilitation, patience, and guidance – with a deep commitment to client confidentiality. Prospective volunteers with 20+ years of senior management and/or executive-level experience are encouraged to apply. Experience in the nonprofit sector, as a professional, volunteer or board member, is helpful but not required.

If you are interested in becoming an ESC consultant, please contact our Director, Volunteers and Cohort Programs, Meghan Maloney at [email protected]

Commitment to Diversity

ESC is committed to deepening our work on diversity and inclusion. We are focused on recruiting new consultants who reflect the diversity of our community to better match the needs of our nonprofit clients and the individuals they serve throughout Southern California. We welcome prospective volunteers who are:
  • Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC)
  • Members of the LGBTQ+ community
  • Spanish-speaking
ESC is also seeking to expand the skill range of our volunteer corps and invites applications from individuals especially with backgrounds in:
  • Fund development
  • Training and facilitation
  • Human resources
  • Social justice and community organizing

Diversity + Inclusion

Our Commitment

ESC is committed to deepening our work on diversity and inclusion. We are focused on recruiting new consultants who reflect the diversity of our community to better match the needs of our nonprofit clients and the individuals they serve throughout Southern California. We welcome prospective volunteers who are:

  • People of color
  • Members of the LGBTQ+ community
  • Spanish-speaking

ESC is also seeking to expand the skill range of our volunteer corps and invites applications from individuals especially with backgrounds in:

  • Fund development
  • Training and facilitation
  • Human resources
  • Social justice and community organizing

ESC is deepening our commitment to DIVERSITY and INCLUSION, in order to better meet the needs of our nonprofit clients and the individuals they serve throughout our region.

Our Featured Consultants

Read about some of our featured consultants below.

    My previous Executive Director sat me down and told me she saw a lot of great qualities of an Executive Director and I can see you taking over for me. With ESC we created this road map we've been on to ensure that I can transition as smoothly as possible to become the next Executive Director at Carousel Ranch

    Taylor Adachi

    Executive Director, Carousel Ranch

Our Consultants

Susan Afriat
Joined 2014
Albert Algaze
Joined 1983
Judy Bain
Joined 2016
Barry Bar-El
Joined 2023
Bonnie Barnes
Joined 2019
Natalia Baudin
Joined 2018
Hedy Belttary
Joined 2023
Linda Blank
Joined 2023
David Blenko
Joined 2019
Ashok Boghani
Joined 2022
J. Lee Braly
Joined 2020
Benjamin Breslauer
Joined 2004
Karen Buxbaum
Joined 2013
Linda Camras
Joined 2004
Betsy Cheek
Joined 2019
Scott Choate
Joined 2018
John Coleman
Joined 1998
Bernice Conn
Joined 2022
Clarence Daniels
Joined 2020
Rachel Davenport
Joined 2013
Eric DeWeese
Joined 2016
Agapito Diaz
Joined 2010
Lynn Dines
Joined 2011
Gail Doi
Joined 2010
Roxie Esterle
Joined 2008
Jim Esterle
Joined 2006
James Evans
Joined 2022
Richard Fass
Joined 2015
Carol Fern
Joined 2023
Sammy Feuerlicht
Joined 2019
Mona Field
Joined 2015
Mary Fitzpatrick
Joined 2022
Susan Flaming
Joined 2017
Gwen Flynn
Joined 2018
Joyce Fried
Joined 2022
Mark Friedman
Joined 1999
Beverly Froelich
Joined 2010
Laura Fuhrman
Joined 2020
Kathryn Girard
Joined 2020
Daniel Goodstein
Joined 2005
Thyonne Gordon
Joined 2019
Micah Greenberg
Joined 2015
Stephen Gutwillig
Joined 2017
Jeanne Hartley
Joined 2023
Jeff Henderson
Joined 2017
Joan Herman
Joined 2020
Michael Hirschfeld
Joined 2013
Leslie Horowitz
Joined 2008
Leon Janks
Joined 2021
Dale Johnston
Joined 2019
Cathy Kaiser
Joined 2019
Mariette Keshishian
Joined 2022
Tim Kittleson
Joined 2009
Yu-Lin Kong
Joined 2015
John Krakowski
Joined 2009
Betty LaMarr
Joined 2022
Marty Lasker
Joined 2019
Al Lavery
Joined 2010
Peggy Lennon
Joined 2018
Hugh Leonard
Joined 2015
Susan Leonard
Joined 2014
Elizabeth Leung
Joined 2019
Janet Levine
Joined 2023
Chuck Lindahl
Joined 2002
Michael Linsk
Joined 2012
Latimer Lorenz
Joined 2010
James Lott
Joined 2022
Brenda Lynch
Joined 2018
Renée Martinez
Joined 2019
Ann McMullan
Joined 2020
Ann McMullan
Joined 2017
Asbjorn Melo
Joined 2017
Judy Milestone
Joined 2018
Francine Moskowitz
Joined 2016
Mark Nay
Joined 2023
Polly Nelson
Joined 2017
Beatrice Nemlaha
Joined 2016
Susan Nero
Joined 2020
Howard Parmet
Joined 2013
Teri Paul
Joined 2019
Beth Quillen-Thomas
Joined 2023
Yvette Reiner
Joined 2015
Nickie Reviere de Verninas
Joined 2023
Yesmean Rihbany
Joined 2016
Gail Rollman
Joined 2022
Nancy Sacks
Joined 2016
Prakash Sakraney
Joined 2020
Fred Samulon
Joined 2002
Janet Schulman
Joined 1999
Jorge Sciupac
Joined 2018
Cliff Scott
Joined 2019
Madonna Shannon
Joined 2017
Diane Siegfried
Joined 2015
Marlene Singer
Joined 2007
Mark Slavkin
Joined 2023
Ellen Sloan
Joined 2022
Harris Sperling
Joined 2011
Barry Steinberg
Joined 2005
Wayne Stickney
Joined 2022
Mark Strunin
Joined 2019
Roberta Suber
Joined 1999
Mel Takata
Joined 2018
Ricardo Tejada
Joined 2018
Richard Thaler
Joined 2012
David Tillipman
Joined 2015
Richard Tom
Joined 2013
Mary Trigg
Joined 2014
Gene Tuch
Joined 2004
Sally Vasen Alter
Joined 2011
David Viar
Joined 2023
Linda Wah
Joined 2019
Eileen Walker
Joined 2019
Lauree Weaver
Joined 2012
Lois Weinsaft
Joined 2015
Beverly Weise
Joined 2014
Jeff Wolfe
Joined 2020
Phil Young
Joined 2013
Jim Zimring
Joined 2019