Practice Areas: General Management; Mergers and Sustained Collaborations; Organizational Design and Structure; Programmatic Design, Development, Management; Strategic Planning.;

Select Support Center Experience: All Roads to Success; Change for Kids; CTC Academy; Grand Street Settlement; Love Ministries; National Education Network, Inc.; One to World; True Mentor.

Frank Schneiger is an organizational navigator and affiliated consultant at Support Center. Schneiger was born and grew up in Milwaukee and is a devoted New Yorker. He is a graduate of University of Wisconsin Madison in History and Political Science and holds a master’s and Ph.D. in International Affairs from Columbia University. At Support Center, Schneiger has provided organizational navigation services to start-up social enterprises receiving grants from the New Jersey Office of Faith Based Initiatives and food security grantees of the Tepper Foundation in New Jersey.

Schneiger has served in executive leadership positions in government, business and the nonprofit sector. He served as Executive Assistant to Congressman James Scheuer of New York, as Assistant Health Commissioner of the City of New York, Executive Director of the Federal Region Two Children's Services Resource Center, and Director of Human Services for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts under Governor Michael Dukakis. He served on the executive committee of the Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corporation, helping to transform it to a pre-eminent industrial/post-industrial park. He has been involved in planning for the NYC Departments of Health, Health & Hospitals, Correction, and Housing, supporting multiple initiatives including reintegration of prison health services and initiatives on stress reduction among front-line DOC officers and supervisors. He currently serves on the board of Project Guardianship, a social justice initiative of the Vera Institute of Justice that provides support to older adults and people with disabilities and mental illness in all five boroughs of NYC.

Building on his years of experience across various organizations and sectors, Schneiger founded and is the acting president of Frank Schneiger and Associates, a 35-year-old planning, organizational development and crisis management firm serving the public, non-profit and small business communities. Schneiger writes a regular on-line column, Manager’s Journal, and is the author of two works of fiction and a memoir on the changing nature of work. A recent series of columns, “Why Things Don’t Work” was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for on-line commentary.