Executive Director Profile

After spending more than 10 years as a consultant in both the Nonprofit and Information Technology sectors, Shelley Hamilton joined MarinSpace in 2003 as its first Executive Director. Ms. Hamilton is also currently a Planning Commissioner for the town of Fairfax.

Prior to joining MarinSpace, Ms. Hamilton was founder and principal of NetCentric Designs, a business strategy, team facilitation, and organizational design firm. She has over 12 years experience working in the emerging field of Multi-tenant Nonprofit Centers and has facilitated strategic planning, organizational development, and program design projects for the Thoreau Center for Sustainability, Fort Mason Center, and the United Way. Ms. Hamilton is a founding board member of the NonprofitCenters Network and was the lead project consultant for the Network’s first three national conferences. She has consulted and presented on the subject at workshops and conferences across the country.

Ms. Hamilton has also conducted corporate research on both Russian Entrepreneurship and the impact of technology on the future of organizational design. As an affiliate researcher for The Institute for the Future, Menlo Park, CA, she helped develop a 10-20 year graphic forecast map of new organizational structures, practices, and leadership strategies - a project resulting in the publication of Mary O'Hara-Devereaux’s new book “Navigating the Badlands.” Ms. Hamilton brings a living systems and complexity science, information technology, anthropology and graphic facilitation perspective to all her management, research, and consulting projects.

Ms. Hamilton graduated with honors from the Fielding Institute's Masters in Organizational Design and Effectiveness program. She holds a B.A. in Cultural Anthropology from UC Santa Cruz and has professional training in both graphic and on-line communication/facilitation tools. She has lived and traveled throughout Southeast Asia, Central Asia, Polynesia, Europe, Russia, Alaska, and Latin America.