Jon Huggett is a global advisor to CEOs of both for-profit businesses and non-profits. He has 25 years of experience in leading enterprises and advising leaders of both private and social sector organizations. His career has spanned line management and consulting around the world, and his articles have been widely published.

Jon spent four years as a Partner with The Bridgespan Group, first in San Francisco, and then in New York, where he helped open the office. At Bridgespan he helped nonprofit clients tackle issues including growth with constrained resources and decision making in complex organizations. Prior, Jon spent four years as a Partner with Bain & Company in Johannesburg and Toronto where he helped clients with opportunities ranging from e-commerce to transforming the tax service of post-apartheid South Africa. Earlier in his career, Jon worked for The Boston Consulting Group in San Francisco and New York.

Jon has run three companies: a $75M health care operation on four continents; Bannock Consulting, a London-based firm focused on economic development in emerging countries; and PlanetOut, the premier lesbian and gay Web portal.

Independently he has advised DAI on its global strategy and organization, the Open Society Institute on its microfinance strategy; developed a growth strategy for Nurcha, a South African nonprofit that has financed the building of over 100,000 homes for low-income families; and counseled the board of Choice Humanitarian, a global development NGO, in Mexico and Cambodia.

Jon is the co-author of "Who Decides? Mapping Power and Decision Making in Nonprofits" (Nonprofit Quarterly), "Boys Town: Using RAPID to Clarify Decision-Making Roles between Headquarters and Sites" (Bridgespan); "What I learned teaching business behind bars" (Stanford Business) various other articles published in Business Day (the leading business daily in South Africa); The Globe and Mail (Canada's largest circulation national daily newspaper) and Bridgespan. He has presented research to audiences in the US, the UK, Canada, Sweden and Australia.

Jon served as a community organizer and the board president of the STOP AIDS Project in San Francisco, a nonprofit dedicated to preventing HIV infection, where he also led teams of street outreach educators. He has taught business at the American Graduate School of International Management in Phoenix and at Leeuwkop Prison, near Johannesburg. He currently serves on the board of Career Gear, a nonprofit that helps men get and keep jobs.

He began his career at Procter & Gamble, after receiving his BA and MA from Oxford University, and went on to earn his MBA from Stanford University's Graduate School of Business, where he graduated as an Arjay Miller Scholar.