Elizabeth A. Murphy

Elizabeth Murphy is a creative strategist and facilitator with 30 years of experience working in the nonprofit and philanthropic sectors. Her firm specializes in designing and facilitating large- and small-scale convenings and roundtable meetings; retreats for boards of directors and staff; strategy direction and program development; and leadership coaching. Since 2011, Murphy has also been the founding director of the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation’s statewide initiative Creative New Jersey, which has mobilized more than 2,000 individuals and 215 organizations to embrace cross-sector collaboration in order to build better communities. Murphy was also a member of the Regional Planning Association’s tri-state Committee on the Fourth Regional Plan, and has been an adjunct professor at Fairleigh Dickinson University, the University of Nevada/Las Vegas, and Hofstra University.