Dr. Kate Shilvock is a nonprofit executive, governance expert, seasoned fundraiser and operations specialist, as well as an avid community volunteer with over two decades of proven servant-leadership success in established and emerging cultural, education, and community services institutions. She is an agent for change and her wealth of experience ranges from streamlining organizational processes and procedures through iterative and efficient program management, to inspiring teams towards exponential fundraising growth. Dr. Shilvock is passionate about helping nonprofit organizations embody their core values through effective operationalization of their mission and vision which includes equitable utilization of, and investment in, a nonprofit’s most valuable asset: its people. Her management approach both as an innovative internal leader as well as a strategic consultant is to ensure everyone has a seat at the table and a voice that is heard, because community cannot be created without consensus. Her intent, whether it is working individually coaching a nonprofit executive or encouraging a team of professionals towards a common organizational goal, is to identify achievement roadblocks while guiding people to tap their lived experiences to inform personal and professional growth.

Kate is a Phi Kappa Phi honor society scholar and holds a Doctorate in Organizational Change and Leadership from the University of Southern California where her work identified nonprofit board chair onboarding practices for successful governance. She holds a BA in Sociology from Wake Forest University, and an MA in Nonprofit Administration from the University of San Francisco where her work focused on how small arts organizations differentiate themselves in crowded urban markets. Dr. Shilvock lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband, Matthew, and their two wonderful kids.