Erica Beckstrom

SENIOR ASSOCIATE

Erica is an accomplished executive, advisor, board member, and non-profit leader with a passion for helping mission-driven organizations reach the next level of growth and performance. Throughout her 25+ years of tenure in both non-profit and for-profit leadership roles, she has “walked the talk” and amassed a deep toolbox of best practices that she enjoys sharing with philanthropic leaders to help them operate at their peak potential.
 
To date, Erica’s background includes serving as the President at FIRST Washington, an innovative statewide (youth based) STEM advocacy organization, in addition to holding senior-level sales and partnership management positions for top private-sector technology organizations including Cisco, UiPath, and Impinj. What’s more, she served as a representative to the State of Washington STEM Innovation Alliance and volunteers as an advisory board member and mentor to a handful of additional nonprofits, startups and early-stage business incubator groups.
 
In terms of her consulting focus, Erica is passionate about advising non-profit leaders on effective management and fundraising concepts, as well as around how to build highly positive, functional relationships with boards, strategic partners, donors, governmental officials, and community stakeholder groups. She can serve in interim executive capacity, when needed, as well as lead the charge on recruiting board members and key leaders to address critical organizational talent gaps. An accomplished change agent, she also excels at helping leaders catalyze transformation within their organizations and create the buy-in, momentum, and organizational development structures needed to unlock next-level performance.
 
Outside of her professional pursuits, Erica enjoys spending time with family (including those that are four-legged), friends, cooking, reading and exploring this great state.

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