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Jeri Eckhart  Queenan

Partner, Boston

Jeri Eckhart Queenan joined Bridgespan in 2007 as a partner in the Boston office, bringing 25 years of strategy and management experience in the private, public and nonprofit sectors.

Before joining Bridgespan, Jeri built Strategic Resolve, LLC, a consulting practice that provided guidance to nonprofit organizations on issues of strategy, managing change, and board governance. Her clients stretched across the arts, education, environment, health, advocacy, and nonprofit management. As a senior governance consultant for BoardSource, she assisted national networks in developing highly effective boards and governance.

Prior to developing her consulting practice, Jeri served as a senior official in the Executive branch of government. She was named a White House Fellow and then Associate Deputy Secretary of Labor, overseeing line agencies with a combined annual budget of $28 billion. As associate deputy, she led cabinet-level working groups on pensions and child care and was deeply involved in issues related to workforce development. After leaving the executive branch, she served as chair and CEO of the White House Fellows Foundation in Washington, DC, and served on the President’s Commission on White House Fellowships.

Before her term in government, Jeri was a manager at The Boston Consulting Group, a global corporate strategy consulting company. While at BCG, she worked with healthcare, transportation, and communications clients located in the US, Europe, and Australia.

With a passion for community service that dates back to high school, Jeri has donated thousands of hours to nonprofit organizations as a volunteer and board member. She has tutored autistic children, organized walk teams for diabetes, painted schools in Kenya, and led capital campaigns and pro bono consulting engagements. Jeri currently serves on the MicroInsurance Advisory Board of Opportunity International and the board of The BOMA Fund, which is dedicated to the self-sufficiency of nomadic tribes in northern Kenya. She has also served as president of The White House Fellows Alumni Association, on the executive committee of The Langley School, and as a director of the ReliaStar Series Fund.

Jeri graduated Phi Beta Kappa/summa cum laude from UCLA with a BA in child psychology, and received her MBA from the Harvard Business School with honors.