About Our Executive Director

Gali is a lifelong artist at heart and self-describes as “an amateur without enough natural talent to do anything with it.” She therefore divided her career between nonprofit management and management consulting–first for McKinsey & Company, and then with her own boutique firm. In her most recent nonprofit role, she built and led a team to transform the culture of the world’s largest environmental conservation nonprofit to a culture of teamwork that values and fosters leadership, high performance, and accountability. She is the creator of an organizational change system called Highly Effective Teams, which is licensed to multiple organizations and taught by her accredited partners. 

Gali’s favorite book is Viktor Frankl’s “Man’s Search for Meaning,” where he writes that the factors that could help a person survive the unthinkable are: appreciation of beauty through nature and art, humor, moral choice, dignity, love (or the memory of love), and the sense that there is something unfinished we are meant to create and bring forth in the world. Gali is passionate about helping Jewish artists create what they are meant to bring forth.

Gali holds a BA in Sociology from Rice University and an MBA with a Certificate in Nonprofit Management from Stanford University's Graduate School of Business. She is an accredited coach with the Leadership Circle Profile and an accredited practitioner with Integrative Enneagram Solutions. Gali was born in Jerusalem, grew up in New York, and has long lived in Boulder, Colorado with her husband, children, and pets. Her passions include Pilates, hiking, rock climbing, reading post-apocalyptic fiction, annual staycations at the Boulder Jewish Film Festival, and teaching kids and adults to read Hebrew and chant Torah.