Principal, Espaldon Consulting
Diane Espaldon is a strategy consultant to the philanthropic and nonprofit sector. With over 20 years of experience, Diane works with those committed to expanding art, culture, and creativity, social justice, and healing of body, spirit, and the earth. For both foundations and nonprofits, Diane provides strategic advice and planning, board/staff retreat facilitation, executive coaching, and studies, assessments and evaluations for strategy and impact. For philanthropy, Diane designs and has managed multi-year philanthropic initiatives involving grantmaking, convening, consulting assistance, and direct programming. Prior to starting her independent consulting practice in 2009, Diane was a partner at CliftonLarsonAllen where she led its U.S. strategic consulting practice to the foundation and nonprofit sector. Before that, she worked for boutique consulting firm The Stevens Group, which provided strategic and financial consulting to the U.S. foundation and nonprofit sector. Based in Los Angeles, Diane was born in the Philippines, grew up in Guam, and still has close personal ties to that Pacific region. Diane has a B.A. in Government from Harvard University and an M.A. from Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs.