Andrea Leonard
If you’re always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.— Maya Angelou
Andrea puts the “human” in Human Resources. She loves working with people to collaborate, ideate and generate their best work so that they can thrive.
She excels at building and working with teams to grow, develop their skills, and untangle bureaucracy. Andrea loves balancing the needs of MG with the needs of the team. This makes her a great HR manager, ensuring staff have the benefits, support, leadership, compensation and information they need to succeed.
Her areas of expertise include:
- Recruitment
- Professional growth and development
- Collaboration and engagement
- Change management
- Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
- Compensation and benefits
- National and international compliance
Experience
Andrea brings her deep HR experience to MG. She has helped a variety of nonprofit teams grow and change. A spectrum of visionaries comprise these organizations, from global environmental activists to data nerds working to solve the world’s biggest problems.
Andrea earned a combined BA/MA in Museum Studies from Case Western Reserve University.
In Community
Andrea enjoys gardening, books, cooking, bird watching, Halloween and exploring the Portland area with her family.