Naomi Baer is as an advisor to social impact organizations, specializing in building organizational effectiveness for scale. She currently serves as a Practitioner in Residence at the Center for Social Innovation, Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Naomi is active as a founding board member of myAgro, an award-winning West Africa-based social enterprise working to move 1 million smallholder farmers out of poverty by 2025.
As an independent advisor, Naomi develops solutions for social impact organizations at pivotal stages of growth. With over a decade of hands-on experience in social sector executive roles, Naomi partners with organizations to identify key barriers to growth and impact at scale, sequence internal investments, and equip leadership teams with tools to advance to the next stage.
An early employee and member of the executive team at Kiva, Naomi led Kiva’s Global Partner Operations, building capacity for rapid growth and scale-up across 70 countries, over 180 Field Partners, and $120M of annual lending. She brings a global perspective to her work with social ventures, drawing from her experience managing teams on 5 continents and building programs in partnership with microfinance institutions and social enterprises in over 70 countries worldwide.
Naomi has also served as Chief Operating Officer at Net Impact, where she led organizational effectiveness and program strategy, mobilizing a global network of over 80,000 students and professionals to drive transformational social and environmental change.
Naomi currently lives in Oakland, California, and holds a B.A. from Brown University.
Caribbean, Central America, Central and Southern Asia, Eastern and Southern Africa, North America, South America, Southeast Asia, West and Central Africa
