Miriam Abrams

Miriam Abrams has more than twenty years of senior level experience and consulting with non-profit organizations. She has had her own consulting practice for the past twelve years, focusing primarily on organizational development, strategic planning, board development and meeting and retreat facilitation. Organizations of all sizes have been re-energized, achieved renewed focus and direction, and developed concrete action plans, working with Miriam. She has developed award-winning programs with proven effectiveness, regarded as national models in their field. She also provides training in communication, board development and role, project management, fundraising strategies and institutionalizing multiculturalism. Her workshop at The Management Center's "Best Practices" Conference, entitled "Myths and Reality: Boards, Why Bother?" was filled to capacity. Her article "A Community Dimension: The Clash of Class" was published in Arts Boards: Creating a New Community Equation, published by ARTS Action Issues. Her clients have included Cal Performances, Davis Street Family Resource Center, Kehilla Community Synagogue, WritersCorps, San Francisco Art Commission, Pacific Bell, and Support Network for Battered Women.

Formerly the Executive Director and co-founder of The Women's Philharmonic, Ms. Abrams was an affiliate consultant with The Management Center and planning consultant with the National Endowment for the Arts and the American Symphony Orchestra League. As an Associate with DiversityMatters, she has led multicultural strategic planning processes.

Ms. Abrams is the recipient of the "Local Hero" Award from KQED and The Women's Foundation of California; American Symphony Orchestra League's Helen M. Thompson Award for outstanding orchestra leadership; and the Koret Israel Prize, and was selected to lead a delegation of artists to the former Soviet Union as part of the American Center for International Leadership.

Ms. Abrams holds a B.A. from Oberlin College, and has extensive training in planning, facilitation, management, multicultural training, staff relations, and fundraising.