Noah Spiegel, MFA, CNC
(he/him/his)
Senior Director of Operations
Noah Spiegel joined the Urban Green Lab team in late 2018 as a consultant and in April 2020 as Director of Operations. Born in Brooklyn, NY, he grew up in Portland, ME, and moved to Nashville in 2012. He started his career as a stage manager for theatre, ballet, symphony, and opera and has lived or worked in over 41 states over the course of his career. Noah is a licensed and Certified Nonprofit Consultant, executive coach, and facilitator with over twenty-five years of management and executive-level experience in the nonprofit and social service sector.
He thrives on working with people with big visions to help them turn their visions into verbsTM. Using a people-centered philosophy, Noah’s practice focuses on optimizing operations that build people, teams, and systems to achieve breakthrough results for organizations working for the social good. Grounded in equity, justice, and antiracism, his portfolio includes work on change management, capacity building, board training and development, human resources, strategic planning, and operationalizing team values.
Noah augments his private practice through his affiliations with Standards for Excellence Institute, BoardSource, Center for Nonprofit Excellence, Tennessee Nonprofit Network, Young Leaders Council, Tennessee Pride Chamber, National LGBT Chamber of Commerce, and Circle Center Consulting.
He attended the University of Southern Maine, where he graduated magna cum laude with a bachelor’s degree in technical theatre and received his master’s in fine arts in stage management from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.He is a member of both the Society of Human Resource Managers (SHRM), national and Middle Tennessee chapters, holds a certificate as a Talent Optimization Consultant with Predictive Index, a certificate of Nonprofit Board Consulting from BoardSource, is a trained Peacemaking Circle facilitator, is a member of the National Association of Nonprofit Organizations and Executives, is a Certified Nonprofit Consultant and is a Standards for Excellence Licensed ConsultantTM.
In his free time, Noah makes pottery and studies mindfulness meditation.