David Williamson
David Williamson has been Managing Director of the consulting firm of Bernuth & Williamson (www.bernuthconsulting.com) since 2002, working with leading institutions in the United States and around the world on issues of strategy, organizational development, and change management. His clients reflect the diversity of the nonprofit sector: public health and service organizations; global development and international affairs groups; environmental and conservation organizations; foundations and philanthropists; associations and quasi-public agencies; and educational and research institutions.
In addition to his consulting practice, David teaches in the executive education programs of the Center for Public and Nonprofit Leadership at Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy. Previously, he was an adjunct professor of business administration at Georgetown’s McDonough School of Business, focusing on nonprofit managemnent. His work on measuring performance in nonprofit organizations appeared in The McKinsey Quarterly and has been widely cited in the academic literature. In partnership with the nonprofit practice at McKinsey & Company, David has published articles on nonprofit capacity-building, organizational alignment, and policy advocacy.
During his 13-year career at The Nature Conservancy, David served in a variety of senior management capacities, including terms as Director of Communications and Vice President for Marketing. The lead author of three organization-wide strategic planning initiatives, his redesign of Nature Conservancy magazine in 2002 won multiple national magazine awards. As a journalist in the 1980s, he received two first-place prizes for reporting from the Maryland-DC-Delaware Press Association.
In 2000-01, David was a visiting Senior Fellow in the Aspen Institute’s Nonprofit Sector and Philanthropy Program. He has also been a Fellow at the Salzburg Seminar in Salzburg, Austria, and was a Princeton-in-Asia Fellow at the Korea Development Institute in Seoul in 1984-5.
David has served as a member, volunteer, or advisor to many nonprofit boards. Educated at the Phillips Exeter Academy, he graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University.