Shana Buxser has honed her skills over decades of philanthropic experience to include strategic planning, organizational management, fundraising, board development, leadership coaching, talent development, grantmaking, and communications. 

Her consulting firm focuses on finding creative solutions and helping wealthy families and individuals pursue their philanthropic interests and operationalize their giving. Buxser Consulting also supports non-profit leaders as they navigate organizational change, fundraising and board development.

Shana has experience working with a wide range of organizations, from global companies to community-based foundations. Known for her ability to successfully navigate social partnerships, she has worked with ultra-high net worth families with intense family dynamics, multi and first generational wealth creators, and with families from a variety of different religious and ethnic backgrounds.

Shana’s personalized approach allows her to dedicate her focus to only a few clients at a time. She offers independent and researched guidance tailored to clients’ priorities and values. The firm’s approach is consultative and facilitative, wherein the client and firm work together to find solutions to needs, and the firm assists the advancement. This iterative process can often uncover priorities and help clients change direction to better suit their giving goals.

Areas of Focus 

• Leadership and executive coaching
• Identifying and focusing charitable interests and passions
• Operationalizing foundations and nonprofits, often from startups
• Program evaluation and impact tracking
• Formalizing and assessing grantmaking
• Facilitation and training