Danielle Berfond

Danielle Berfond is a partner in Bridgespan’s New York office. Since joining the organization in 2014, she has worked with nonprofits and philanthropists around the world on strategy and operating model questions.

Danielle has focused on supporting global organizations working across several domains – from Audacious grantee organizations to large international philanthropies and NGOs, and from education to health to poverty alleviation. She is passionate about bringing the lenses of gender equity and global equity to this work. Building upon Bridgespan’s operating model work, Daniella supports clients in strengthening their organizations to best execute strategy and center these lenses, and co-authored “Reimagining Global Operating Models: Steps Multi-Country Organizations Are Taking to Advance Equity and Shift Power Locally” (Bridgespan.org, 2023). She also supports global organizations in their scaling strategies; she has studied the momentum in private sector engagement with refugees and host communities in Africa and the Middle East in the report, Private Sector and Refugees: Pathways to Scale (Bridgespan.org, 2019).

Danielle is also deeply committed to Bridgespan’s own growth globally. From 2015 to 2017, she acted as one of the founding members of the organization’s Mumbai office. Her work in India included strategy projects in the areas of women and girls, skills development, and rural livelihoods, as well as research on the state of NGO leadership development. In her time there, Danielle co-authored “Building the Bench at Indian NGOs: Investing to Fill the Leadership Development Gap”(Bridgespan.org, 2017) and “NGO Leadership Development in India: From Pioneer-Founders to Homegrown Leaders” (Stanford Social Innovation Review, 2017).

Prior to joining Bridgespan, she was an engagement manager at the management consulting firm Oliver Wyman, working on strategic and operational questions for a variety of financial services clients.

Danielle is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, where she received a BS in Economics from the Wharton School and a BA in Political Science from the College of Arts & Sciences.