Gayle Northrop

Gayle Northrop is Adjunct Faculty at the University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business (UCT GSB), Faculty at UCLA Anderson School of Management in Los Angeles, and President of Northrop Nonprofit Consulting, a firm specialising in strategic planning, organisation development, and leadership development for nonprofits and social enterprises worldwide.

At the GSB, Gayle works with the Bertha Centre for Social Innovation & Entrepreneurship on strategy and planning, focusing on systems change and social innovation in health. Also through the GSB, Gayle helped launch and was Associate Director of Spark Health Africa, a nonprofit seeking to enhance the capacity of public sector health teams by sparking sustainable culture change.

Gayle is Adjunct Assistant Professor at UCLA Anderson where she teaches courses on Social Entrepreneurship and Social Impact Consulting in the MBA and undergraduate programs and leads a global immersion course on Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation in South Africa.

With broad international experience, particularly in African countries, Gayle has dedicated her career to helping drive positive social change through strengthened systems, improved service delivery, and more effective measurement and communication of impact. She serves on multiple nonprofit boards, including Spark Health Africa, PATA (Paediatric & Adolescent AIDS Treatment for Africa), and the UCLA Global Lab for Research in Action.