In collaboration with the Career Management Group (CMG), CSSL offers students the chance to engage in 30-minute, one-on-one sessions with social impact experts each spring semester. During these sessions, students receive expert guidance on social impact career paths. The advisors bring extensive experience from working with nonprofits, foundations, government agencies, and corporations across various sectors, including the environment, education, and health.
Past Career Advisors
Francesca LeBaron
CSSL Lecturer
Francesca LeBaron is a lecturer in the Management of Organizations group at the Haas School of Business. She is a certified public mediator, conflict coach, restorative justice practitioner, executive coach, and inclusive leadership trainer. She thrives at the intersection of leadership development, DEI, storytelling and conflict resolution. At UC Berkeley, she is an experiential educator who teaches courses such as “DEI Leadership Lab: Managing Conflict in Diverse Workplaces” and “Difficult Conversations: Conflict Lab.” Her courses are aimed at empowering Haas students to navigate difficult conversations in the workplace based on role playing real world examples of workplace conflict. Her courses have been featured in the Wall Street Journal, The London Times, Poets & Quants and NPR. Her educational background includes a B.S. in Economics from Santa Clara University, an M.B.A. from UC Berkeley – Haas School of Business. She is a certified executive coach through New Ventures West and a certified mediator and conflict coach through SEEDs conflict resolution center. She also serves as a DEI consultant and inclusive leadership trainer with the Center for Equity, Gender and Leadership (EGAL) at UC Berkeley. She also served as the chairwoman for the founding student advisory board for EGAL.
Doug Leeds
Doug Leeds is currently an Executive in Residence with August Capital and is co-teaching UBGA 96, Creativity and Leadership at Berkeley.
Previously, Doug was the CEO of IAC Publishing, one of the largest digital publishers in the world with brands including The Daily Beast, About.com, Investopedia, Ask.com, Urbanspoon and Dictionary.com. Prior to this role, Doug served as CEO forAsk.com, evolving the search destination into a content-rich Q&A experience over the course of 5 years, and driving a number of high-profile acquisitions, including global social network Ask.fm and digital content publishers About.com and Investopedia.
Nora Silver
Nora Silver is the Founder and Faculty Director of the Center for Social Sector Leadership and Adjunct Professor at University of California Berkeley Haas School of Business. She is a serial entrepreneur, having founded and led a number of nonprofit social enterprises and created a foundation collaborative on volunteerism/community service. As an organizational consultant, Nora has worked with hundreds of organizations worldwide – including nonprofits such as Consumers Union and National Judicial College, corporations such as UPS and Levi Strauss, governments of Singapore and Hong Kong, foundations, and universities – on strategy and organizational development, cross-sector collaboration, community engagement, and board and executive development.
Joe Dougherty
Joe Dougherty is a Partner at Dalberg Advisors, where he also served as Managing Director of the Americas region and Global Managing Partner (acting). He has worked as a trusted advisor to nonprofit organizations, foundations, government agencies, and leading corporations for twenty-five years and has worked in thirty countries across a range of sectors including education, agriculture, health, and financial services. His past clients include USAID and the World Bank along with several UN agencies, the Gates, Skoll, Hewlett and Rockefeller Foundations as well as Visa, Google, Intel, Facebook, Citibank, Bank of the West, and the cities of San Francisco, Richmond, and San Jose. He has also served on the Board of Directors of several nonprofits and teaches courses in social impact consulting, nonprofit leadership, and social enterprise at Haas.
Puneet Sangal
Puneet currently works at Google to deliver trusted and safe experiences to users. He is keen on creating impact in the social sector. In the past, he has co-launched a startup in the social sector space to fight drug counterfeiting using technology. He has advised academia and startups on creating impact. He has engaged with the United Nations on reducing human loss and suffering with data, and conducted research on the burden of neurological diseases revealed by web searches. He has given guest lecture at UC Berkeley exec ed and taught at other universities. He lives in the Bay area with his family.
Colin Boyle
Colin Boyle is an educator and consultant who has spent most of his career at the intersection of the public, private and social sectors. From 2012 to 2020, Colin was Deputy Director for the Institute for Global Health Sciences (IGHS) at the University of California, San Francisco, where he oversaw efforts to grow the Institute’s research and education programs. Prior to his move into academia, Colin was a Partner and Managing Director with The Boston Consulting Group in San Francisco, where he worked with clients in the health care sector, global health, and philanthropy. He has served on the Board of the Oakland Museum of California and the Bay Area Global Health Alliance. He teaches graduate-level courses on management, strategy, and impact measurement in the social sector.