Elizabeth Wolfson

Principal, Girls Athletic Leadership School

“In the Midst of Winter I finally learned that there was within me an invincible summer.” – Albert Camus

The Girls Athletic Leadership Schools is the vision of Elizabeth A. Wolfson. Elizabeth Wolfson is an organizational development specialist with senior level consultancy and management experience in the profit and non-profit sectors in local, national, and international settings. She has spent seven years living and working professionally in Israel.

Highlights of her professional work include designing and developing the first corporate plan for global internal communications (including technical infrastructure) for a world leader in telecommunications with 40 offices around the globe; leading the start-up of an adult education organization; representing a major international political leader; serving as consultant to the executive of a large sports-oriented non-profit where she has contributed to projects such as the World Scholar Athlete Games, National Sportsmanship Day, and the Center for Sports Poetry; and bringing the United Way to the Middle East.

Elizabeth Wolfson captained the Division I Field Hockey program at Brown University, graduating with a degree in Organizational Behavior and Management. She studied for her Master’s degree in Public Administration at the University of Southern California, simultaneously earning a Master’s degree in Jewish Communal Service from the Hebrew Union College. She was inducted into the Sussex County, New Jersey, Sports Hall of Fame in 2004. This past February, Ms. Wolfson was invited to participate in the Aspen Institute Seminars program.