Nonprofit Management Certificate

Mary Walker

Mary Walker is the owner and principal of Leaf Spring LLC, a company specializing in helping non-profits INTENSIFY THEIR IMPACT through more efficient and financially favorable processes. She is passionate about nonprofit success and works to help her clients in revenue development, fraud prevention, board growth, strategic planning, and general business practices.

Before this, Walker served as the director of development at the Knoxville Museum of Art. She has previously worked in strategy, marketing, and finance in international corporations and her family’s automotive businesses. She earned her bachelor’s degree from the University of Tennessee and her M.B.A. from Vanderbilt University. Walker has served on several local non-profit boards, has been a trainer with the Alliance for Better Nonprofits, and currently teaches in a nonprofit graduate certificate program at the University of Tennessee.