Kathleen McShane

I’m an ordained Elder in the United Methodist Church, where she led four congregations and served for eight years as Vice President for Institutional Advancement at Pacific School of Religion. Before all of that, I practiced law for fifteen years in the San Francisco Bay Area. It was while leading a church in Silicon Valley, filled with tech entrepreneurs and people longing for their faith to make a difference in the world, that I co-founded The Changemaker Initiative. That work has led toward multiple projects that are re-imagining leadership for faith and values-driven organizations. I’m Director of Learning and Innovation for Texas Methodist Foundation and Wesleyan Impact Partners and part-time Pastor of First United Methodist Church of Paso Robles. I wrote, with Rabbi Elan Babchuck, Picking Up the Pieces: Leadership after Empire (Fortress Press, 2024). I live on a lovely vineyard on the Central Coast of California.