Our Team
Katie McNerney
Co-Founder and Partner
After her junior year at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Katie interned with the Children’s Law Center in Charlotte, NC. The internship helped her realize that her skills and interests were more aligned with the business side of running a nonprofit vs. providing legal services. She pivote from her plans to attend law school and instead pursued a career in business. She loved her first job as a Research Associate at the Advisory Board Company (ABC), a best practices research and consulting firm in Washington, D.C.
Following her passion for the emerging field of social entrepreneurship, Katie leveraged her business skills into a consulting role at Community Wealth Partners, a leading consulting firm on nonprofit innovation and strategy. From there, Katie earned an MBA at Harvard Business School and worked in marketing for eBAY and a start-up later acquired by Microsoft. She returned to her home town of Washington, D.C. and joined a boutique consulting firm advising celebrities and high net worth individuals on their philanthropic strategies and partnerships. Seeing first-hand the need for stronger and more diverse leadership talent in nonprofits, Katie was inspired to start LeaderFit, an executive search firm that has successfully placed more than 500 candidates in new jobs. Her team also created a career coaching program and has provided thousands of hours of 1-1 career coaching to guide professionals on their career path.
Elizabeth McGlynn
Co-Founder and Partner
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After graduating Clemson University with a business degree in marketing, Elizabeth joined Gap, Inc.’s management training program and later joined M&M Mars in a sales and marketing role. She then earned a Master’s in Community Health, which she parlayed into running a health care company’s national continuing education courses.
In 2009, she joined Girls on the Run Montgomery County as its first full-time Executive Director and has spent the past 16 years building the the MoCo chapter into one of the country’s largest and most successful, serving more than 5,000 girls each year. She did all of this while raising four sons with her husband. Two of her sons successfully hatched, one working in NYC for a sports marketing firm and another in Denver for a large national consulting firm. The third is a rising college senior who has already secured full-time post-college employment and the fourth is a rising college sophomore. Elizabeth understands the challenges students (and parents!) face in providing coaching and support to help their children successfully launch their career.