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Susan Gross
Senior Consultant and Founding Director
Susan Gross is founder of the Management Assistance Group, and a nationally recognized expert in increasing the effectiveness of social justice organizations. She has worked with hundreds of organizations, including American Civil Liberties Union, Natural Resources Defense Council, Center for Community Change, National Immigration Forum, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International USA, Innocence Project, Economic Policy Institute, Achieve Inc., the National Abortion Federation, and the International Center for Transitional Justice.
Susan has long been committed to helping national, state and local social justice organizations become structurally, strategically, and organizationally stronger, first as a social activist, and then as an independent consultant. With a keen understanding of the complex issues that can affect the performance of social change groups, Susan co-founded MAG in 1980. She led the organization as its Executive Director between 1980 and 2005, and has served hundreds of social justice organizations as a consultant.
About her long career, Susan says, "Over the last 40 years, I have had the good fortune of working with hundreds of nonprofit leaders who have dedicated their lives to building a more just, equitable, and humane society. I have been dazzled by their brilliance and dynamism and blown away by their substantive depth and strategic savvy. And, I have been moved and inspired by their courage, passion, commitment, tenacity and sheer hard work in the face of often daunting odds."
Susan is author of numerous articles and publications, including the MAG publications Strategic Planning that Makes a Difference, The Power of Purpose, The Ten Most Common Organizational Problems, and Managing People: Understanding and Overcoming the Most Common Pitfalls. Her first book, Seven Turning Points, will be published in 2009 by the Fieldstone Alliance. In the book, she introduces readers to seven pivotal points in nonprofit life when an organization must make broad, fundamental changes in the way it's structured, managed, led, and governed. To be notified when the book is released, click here.
Susan has long been committed to helping national, state and local social justice organizations become structurally, strategically, and organizationally stronger, first as a social activist, and then as an independent consultant. With a keen understanding of the complex issues that can affect the performance of social change groups, Susan co-founded MAG in 1980. She led the organization as its Executive Director between 1980 and 2005, and has served hundreds of social justice organizations as a consultant.
About her long career, Susan says, "Over the last 40 years, I have had the good fortune of working with hundreds of nonprofit leaders who have dedicated their lives to building a more just, equitable, and humane society. I have been dazzled by their brilliance and dynamism and blown away by their substantive depth and strategic savvy. And, I have been moved and inspired by their courage, passion, commitment, tenacity and sheer hard work in the face of often daunting odds."
Susan is author of numerous articles and publications, including the MAG publications Strategic Planning that Makes a Difference, The Power of Purpose, The Ten Most Common Organizational Problems, and Managing People: Understanding and Overcoming the Most Common Pitfalls. Her first book, Seven Turning Points, will be published in 2009 by the Fieldstone Alliance. In the book, she introduces readers to seven pivotal points in nonprofit life when an organization must make broad, fundamental changes in the way it's structured, managed, led, and governed. To be notified when the book is released, click here.