Nancy Hale

Advocating fresh thinking to intractable problems while challenging the outdated orthodoxies of America’s political parties, Nancy works with Third Way's internal and external customers teaching collaborative problem solving approaches, strategy design, and innovation processes. Senator Tom Carper says "When I see Nancy at the front of the room I know it means hard work ahead!" Nancy's commitment to an engaged democracy has taken her from organizing civil disobedience campaigns against nuclear weapons to advising groundbreaking advocacy organizations to running leading nonprofits. She is the former Managing Director of the Tides/Tsunami Fund. As Principal in Groundwork Strategies she led executive-level consultancies with the University of California Berkeley, the National Park Service, the CA Coastal Conservancy, and many others. Nancy has advised groups from Japan to Nicaragua to New Zealand on the practices of collaborative design. She was instrumental in formulating the founding vision and mission of Third Way. A believer in lifelong learning who has attended both the Stanford Design School and Switzerland’s international business school IMD in recent years, Nancy also loves live music, hiking, and wilderness camping.