Susan Wolf Ditkoff is a manager in the Boston office and has been with Bridgespan since 2001. Her work has focused on three primary areas: foundation strategy, education and youth development, and infrastructure issues such as capacity building and social capital markets. She has co-authored two case studies on high-impact philanthropy and education strategy. Her materials on board development and governance have been reprinted in national and international publications.

Prior to Bridgespan, Susan’s career included experience starting up a $500m healthcare subsidiary of Merck & Co. which doubled in its first three years, for-profit consulting to financial institutions, and nonprofit consulting in microfinance with McKinsey & Company.

Outside of Bridgespan, Susan is the president of the Social Enterprise Alumni Association of Harvard Business School, a global alumni group with nearly 1,000 members. She is also an elected official on the Brookline School Committee in Brookline, MA, where she serves on the curriculum, government relations, and negotiations committees.

Susan is a graduate of Yale University, where she wrote her thesis on bilingual education. She received her MBA from Harvard Business School, where she was a president of the Social Enterprise Club, Net Impact chapter leader, and founder of the Social Enterprise track of the Business Plan Contest. Susan remains active at HBS, where she is a leadership coach in the Executive Education program and career coach in the MBA Career Services program.