As Managing Director, Andy Tarsy partners with mission-driven organizations to navigate leadership transitions and address strategic challenges. He specializes in CEO and Executive Director searches, as well as consulting engagements focused on change management and leadership development. Andy’s clients span the nonprofit, public, and quasi-public sectors, including organizations in social impact, entrepreneurship, housing, healthcare, journalism, civil rights advocacy, and social services.

Andy’s career began in public service as a Trial Attorney in the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. He later held senior roles at the Anti-Defamation League, serving as Executive Director for New England and Civil Rights Counsel for the Eastern United States. He went on to co-found and lead the Alliance for Business Leadership and served as President of the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate. He also co-created two boutique consultancies focused on social impact strategy.

In academia and international service, Andy was a Senior Fellow at UMass Boston’s McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies and a Visiting Professional at the International Criminal Court in The Hague. He teaches Ethics and Leadership at Boston University’s Questrom School of Business and Civil Liberties and Civil Rights at Merrimack College. He is a Trustee of the Benjamin Franklin Cummings Institute of Technology, a Mentor with Middle East Peace-building organization Our Generation Speaks, and a long-time docent at the New England Holocaust Memorial.

Andy’s contributions to strengthening organizations and communities have been recognized with the NAACP’s Kivie Kaplan Humanitarian Award, Jewish Family Services of MetroWest’s Max Michaelson Humanitarian Award, and inclusion in the Forward 50.

He is a graduate of the Roxbury Latin School and Cornell University’s College of Arts and Sciences and earned his JD with honors from The George Washington University Law School.

Education

BA, Government
Cornell University’s College of Arts and Sciences

JD with Honors
The George Washington School of Law