Lauren Shaughnessy

Lauren Shaughnessy is a partner in Bridgespan’s San Francisco office. Since joining the organization in 2012, Lauren has worked with a wide range of philanthropic and nonprofit clients addressing systemic inequities and advancing economic mobility, with a particular emphasis on place-based change. Past clients include W.K. Kellogg Foundation, Learn to Earn Dayton, StriveTogether, and several clients through Bridgespan’s Leading for Impact program. She has supported and led work related to strategic planning, performance measurement, and community engagement and planning. She also works with high-net-worth individual donors and family foundations to define goals and strategies, design sourcing and selection processes, and optimize philanthropic operating models that support improved giving over time. She is a co-author of “Inflection Points in Family Philanthropy: Start up, Scale up, Tune up” (Bridgespan.org, 2025), and “Philanthropic Sourcing, Diligence, and Decision Making: An Equity-Oriented Approach” (Bridgespan.org, 2023).

Between 2015-2019, Lauren served as the Director of Measurement & Learning at Habitat for Humanity Greater San Francisco, where she led and implemented the organization’s performance measurement strategy, resulting in programmatic theory of change models, definition of key beneficiary outcomes, and primary research design.

Prior to joining Bridgespan, Lauren worked in marketing in both the for-profit and nonprofit sectors, beginning her career in brand management at Kraft Foods. She holds a BBA and an MBA from the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan.