Ed Spitzberg, a nonprofit executive and strategic consultant, brings close to two decades’ experience to his engagements. With a wide variety of clients, from arts to education to civic engagement organizations, Ed works with nonprofit leaders and boards to develop strategic plans, facilitate engaging leadership retreats, create fundraising road maps, and generally tackle sticky problems through his practice, Spitzberg Advisors. Ed views being an interim executive as combining his background as a nonprofit leader with his consulting experience helping other nonprofit leaders develop strategies and times of transition.
Ed has been Executive Director of nonprofits including the multidisciplinary afterschool arts program Sitar Arts Center, winner of the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities’ National Arts and Humanities Youth Program award under his tenure. Ed has also been a senior development executive for Arena Stage, a Tony Award-winning regional theater, and the Afterschool Alliance, the national voice for the afterschool field and the children and families it impacts. Ed also is an Off-Broadway producer and award-winning performing artist.
Prior to his nonprofit career, Ed worked in the corporate arena, including senior product management positions at the Walt Disney Company and an internet start-up, Comedy World. Ed has an MBA in Entertainment Management and Marketing from the Anderson School at UCLA and a BA in Ethics, Politics and Economics from Yale University.