Emily Hall

Emily Hall, Olive Grove’s Founder & CEO, has provided strategic consulting services to thousands of community leaders, social entrepreneurs, nonprofits, board members, corporations, governments and philanthropists over two decades. She has enhanced the impact of organizations of every size, sector, stage of development, and mission
focus, and helped individuals focusing their giving for maximum impact.

While Olive Grove provides a full range of consulting services, Emily primarily works with CEOs and Boards during points of inflection, growth, opportunity, confusion or change, and frequently in highly complex and ambiguous environments. She supports clients in philanthropy, strategy, governance, succession and transitions, mergers, and
other mission-critical topics.

Emily is known as a trusted and knowledgeable advisor who can quickly distill complex and ambiguous information and competing priorities into clear patterns and options, and who supports leaders to make the right choices, not necessarily the easy ones. Her counsel has been sought by many of the largest and most innovative foundations to support their own work as well as advance the capabilities of their grantees.

Clients include: Schwab Charitable Fund; Opportunity Fund; Surfrider Foundation; Tipping Point Community; Moishe House; Education Trust-West; The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation; Bay Area Open Space Council; and hundreds of others.

Before founding Olive Grove in 2002, Emily served as Executive Vice President and head of the West Coast Nonprofit Practice for DHR International, Director of the West Coast Nonprofit Practice for A.T. Kearney, and a Director at The Management Center. She also has extensive experience as a board member in both New York and California.

As Founder and CEO of Olive Grove, she took her small, sole proprietor operation and cultivated it into a leading, full-service national firm based on a unique networked model that allows for completely customized approaches for clients and real-time leveraging of experts. The firm has grown over 1300% in the past four years.