Gayle Northrop

Gayle Northrop is a consultant, coach, and educator, and president of Northrop Nonprofit Consulting, a firm specializing in strategic planning, organization development and leadership development for social impact organizations worldwide. With broad international experience, particularly in African countries, Gayle has dedicated her career to helping drive positive social change through strengthened systems, improved service delivery and more effective measurement and communication of impact. Since its inception in 2001, Northrop Nonprofit Consulting has worked with nonprofits and businesses across the legal spectrum, including Human Rights Watch, Red Bull, Virgin Unite, Homeboy Industries, and The Charlize Theron Africa Outreach Project. At UCLA Anderson, Gayle is a Continuing Lecturer and Senior Faculty Advisor for Impact@Anderson. She teaches social entrepreneurship in the MBA programs, serves as faculty advisor for international nonprofit projects, and leads a global immersion course on Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation in South Africa. Gayle also teaches a course “Social Entrepreneurship: Sector Agnostic Models of Impact” to undergraduate students eager to explore ways to blend purpose and profit in their careers and in their lives. Gayle is former Associate Director and current board member of Spark Health Africa, an organization working to strengthen African health systems for better maternal and child health outcomes. She is Senior Advisor to the Bertha Centre for Social Innovation & Entrepreneurship at the University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business where she works on strategy, program design and a multiyear initiative driving social innovation in health in the global south. Specialties: Social Entrepreneurship; Systems Change; Strategic Planning; Organizational Development; Leadership & Management Development; Executive Coaching; Organizational Structure & Design; Change Management; Succession Planning; Board Development