As a Managing Associate at NPAG, Sharon focuses on bringing project management, client management, candidate stewardship, and strategy excellence to her search work. She practices NPAG’s values of equity, integrity, and kindness through her work by ensuring search processes are designed and managed in ways that are transparent and additive to clients, candidates, and all stakeholders who are invited to participate in the process. Sharon has worked broadly across non-profit and particularly in funder spaces with institutional philanthropies, family philanthropies, philanthropy-serving organizations, community foundations, and intermediaries. As a part of her search work, Sharon has engaged deeply in talent strategy, founder transitions, board development, and board-staff-executive leadership alignment work. Sharon has also been developing a portfolio in emergent technology that invites an ecosystem-level of thinking in talent strategy that will not only impact the social sector’s ability to meet this moment, but future technological moments as well. Prior to her role at NPAG, Sharon started her career in tech and digital media and brought over a decade of experience in project management, account management, and entrepreneurship. She co-founded a business dedicated to helping animal welfare organizations make revenue and gain more visibility online and through that experience, realized she wanted to continue her career with mission driven organizations. Most recently, Sharon served as an AmeriCorps member with a nonprofit called Reading Partners in Silicon Valley. Sharon is Los Angeles born and raised and is a proud graduate of The University of Southern California. She resides in Los Angeles with her husband and two rescue pups.