meet our team
We’ve been empowering purpose-driven leaders for over 10 years.
Careers for Social Impact was born in 2014, when our founder, Erin, took the leap into working on her own and began using the skills she had developed in talent roles across the social sector to help others navigate their career journeys.
Since then, we’ve worked with thousands of social sector professionals to help them gain clarity about what they want in their careers, grow as leaders, and work toward their most important personal and professional goals.
Erin Ewart
FOUNDER AND COACH
I’m Erin, founder of Careers for Social Impact. Before becoming a coach, I spent 15 years in recruitment and talent leadership roles for a diverse set of organizations across the private, public, and nonprofit sectors, from Google to the U.S. State Department.
Maëlle Fonteneau
COACH
I’m Maëlle (pronounced My-L), a career coach, talent leader, and facilitator with over 15 years of experience supporting mission-driven organizations. I’m passionate about working with individuals to clarify their purpose and to provide support during the job search process.
Ashley Mandel
COMMUNITY AND OPERATIONS MANAGER
I’m Ashley, and I love bringing people together and building meaningful connections with others who share my passion for impact. I lead our community-building work, including managing our events and moderating our online client communities.
What we stand for
Our Values
Just as we encourage our clients to clarify their values before embarking on a career transition, we think it’s important for us to share our values with you to help you assess if we’ll be a good fit to work together.
We believe that taking ownership of our careers allows us to make the greatest impact and find the most fulfillment. We want our clients to feel equipped and empowered to steer their careers and lives with intention. We challenge them to take “imperfect action” to learn and adjust course, and we commit to doing the same in our own work.
Ownership & action
We believe that building trust is paramount in our work. We strive to be as clear as possible about who we are, what we do, how we do it, and who we are best positioned to help. We aim to bring more transparency to the hiring process by sharing our own stories, knowledge and experience with others.
Trust & transparency
We believe that everyone deserves to have meaningful work. We are committed to being an anti-racist and inclusive organization, and to helping remove barriers to access and opportunity for marginalized groups and individuals. We aim to bring more awareness to systemic inequities, especially in careers and the hiring process, and to help dismantle them.
Equity & access
We believe that authentic curiosity is key to understanding the needs and challenges of our clients. We see learning as a continuous process, and failure as an important and necessary tool for growth. We regularly seek out diverse perspectives and feedback and we push ourselves to take risks and try new things, persisting through the discomfort of ambiguity and uncertainty.
Curiosity & constant learning
We believe that everyone benefits when we work together. We value collaboration over competition, we seek out opportunities to partner and create a bigger pie, and we see incredible power in peer-to-peer support and knowledge sharing. We are amplifying our impact by building a thriving community of social impact professionals who will support and uplift each other in doing work that will benefit all of us.
