Katie Mayshak is a nonprofit leader and strategist with more than 20 years of experience working alongside mission-driven organizations as they navigate growth, change, and long-term sustainability. Her work helps organizations clarify strategy, strengthen fundraising, and align their stories with the values and communities they serve.
As Principal of KM Consulting, Katie partners with the chief executives and boards of Boston-area and national nonprofits on thoughtful, values-driven growth. Her clients include Boston Children's Museum, the ACLU of Massachusetts, Boston Impact Initiative, MASS Design Group, the Boston Society of Architects, Architecture in Common, the MIT List Visual Arts Center, Boston Community Pediatrics, Neighborhood Villages, Native Plant Trust, and the Mystic River Watershed Association. Her work spans organizational strategy, theory of change, fundraising, positioning, and executive advising, often during periods of transition or complexity. She also helps organizations adopt AI and data systems with care, from CRM migration to fundraising forecasting.
Previously, Katie served as Chief Growth Officer at Neighborhood Villages, where she partnered with the founders and board to grow the organization's annual operating budget from under $400,000 to $9 million while strengthening its national voice in early childhood policy. Before that, she spent nearly a decade as Director of Development at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, leading a team of 13 through consecutive comprehensive and capital campaigns totaling more than $100 million. She began her career at Boston Ballet during a period of significant organizational recapitalization.
Katie is a co-author of "Your Day Care Probably Won't Survive the Coronavirus," published in The New York Times in 2020, which examined the fragility of the child care sector and the case for public investment.
She completed MIT Sloan School of Management's Executive Program in General Management in 2026, earning the Advanced Certificate for Executives in Management, Innovation, and Technology. She earned her bachelor's degree from Wake Forest University, where she was a Presidential Scholar, graduating magna cum laude with honors in English Literature and Art History. She pursued doctoral studies in Art History at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and is an alumna of LeadBoston and the Institute for Nonprofit Practice.
Katie serves on the Board of Directors of Docutribe and the Board of Advisors of Potentica, and is an Ambassador for the MetroWest Women's Fund. She lives in Massachusetts with her husband and two children.
