Managing Director
With twenty years' experience advising senior management on issues of strategy, organization, and reputation building, John oversees FSG's consulting practice. While at FSG, John has led several dozen strategic planning efforts for foundations, nonprofits, and corporate philanthropy programs. John's FSG engagements include significant experience in international health, U.S. health care, U.S. education, the environment, and nonprofit capacity building. He has been instrumental in developing customized applications of FSG's strategy and problem solving tools for the social sector - including the use of scenario planning, adaptive leadership principles, organizational change management processes, and product cost modeling for community foundations. Prior to joining FSG, John was a partner at both Mercer Management Consulting and Corporate Decisions, Inc., where he did significant strategy work with clients in education, health care, and media. He began his career at Leo Burnett Company, a global advertising agency. John has been published in Stanford Social Innovation Review, The Wall Street Journal, and The Journal of Business Strategy and is a featured author of Learning from the Future, the leading contemporary text on scenario planning. He speaks frequently around the U.S. on improving the impact of philanthropy and corporate social responsibility.
John has an M.B.A. from Northwestern's Kellogg Graduate School of Management and a B.A., cum laude, from Dartmouth College.
He can be reached at john.kania@fsg-impact.org.
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