Elizabeth Garrison

Elizabeth has dedicated her career to helping organizations across every nonprofit sector navigate pivotal moments with steadiness, strategic insight, and a genuine joy in partnership. Her approach blends disciplined project management with big picture thinking, ensuring teams move through high stakes initiatives with confidence and purpose. 

A defining milestone in Elizabeth’s career was her three-year partnership with the University of San Francisco to manage campaign operations, shape top prospect strategy, and lead public launch planning for the Changing the World From Here campaign. Under her guidance, the campaign launched with more than $200 million raised and ultimately surpassed its $300 million goal.

Elizabeth’s work has since spanned major institutions on both the west coast and central United States, including leadership of seven- to nine-figure campaigns, enterprise growth planning for the Lucile Packard Foundation for Children’s Health, and managing a team of 15 campaign directors across 200 parishes in the Archdiocese of Chicago. Throughout these varied engagements, she is known for grounding strategy in both data and storytelling, leading teams with clarity and compassion, and helping clients unlock new and elevated potential. 

Elizabeth earned her BA from Emory University and a Master of Theological Studies and MBA from Vanderbilt University. She lives in Nashville with her family and has previously called Chicago, San Francisco, and Sandpoint, Idaho home. Outside of work, she loves travel, hiking, camping, kayaking, and volunteering in her local parks and animal shelter.