Practice areas: Board governance; Executive coaching; Financial management and planning; General management; Leadership development; Mergers and sustained collaborations; Organizational design and structure; Strategic planning.

Experience: Advocacy, civil rights, social justice; Arts, culture, humanities; Children and youth services; Environment; Government, politics; Housing and homelessness; Human services or multi-service; Professional association or network; Recreation, sports, leisure; Substance abuse, recovery, addiction; Voluntarism, community services; Coaching middle and senior managers

Certifications: JD

Memberships/affiliations: Association of Nonprofit Specialists

Wendy Seligson is an Affiliate Consultant with the Support Center and founder of Wendy Seligson Consulting, a nonprofit management consulting firm specializing in business and financial planning, organizational systems development, coaching and professional development and strategic approaches to managing risk. With over twenty years as senior executive and chief operating officer in New York City nonprofits, Seligson is experienced at managing complex nonprofit organizations. As the Associate Executive Director of the 14th Street Y from 2007 through 2015 , Seligson managed the Y through a period of rapid growth in which the program size and revenue doubled over five years; she is particularly proud of her work at the Y building high functioning teams and mentoring and developing talented middle-managers to achieve these results. Seligson has a JD from New York University School of Law and an undergraduate degree from Duke University.