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Louise Borke

About

Louise is a seasoned financial executive with deep operating experience. Her board governance expertise is evidenced by extensive board service, and her standing as a faculty member of the Risk Management Association. She has substantial experience in board development, risk management, operations, and financial management in both large and small organizations worldwide.

Why do you consult with ESC?

I feel it’s very worthwhile because I am able to learn a lot while giving back. I have been very fortunate in my life and career, so I want to help the non profit sector. I also appreciate the collegial atmosphere fostered by ESC and have made some really good new friends as a result, which is not so easy later in life.

Most memorable experience?

Getting to learn about all of the wonderful work being done by so many people and organizations and being able to provide support to further the goals of these organizations by sharing knowledge and providing information.

How are the services ESC provides different than other consulting organizations?

I believe ESC is unique in the offerings we provide, which are more varied and comprehensive than other consulting organizations. We also are unusual in our flexible approach of adding spacialist consultants as needed, which results in a very cost effective engagement for the client.

What aspects of the consulting give you the most satisfaction?

The most satisfying experience is helping to transform an organization that has an important mission from a nonprofit, which is floundering and lurching from crisis to crisis, into a well oiled machine engaged in effectively generating posiitve outcomes that are having a meaningful impact in the community they serve.

Top areas of expertise
  • Coaching
  • Governance
  • Strategic Planning
ESC Clients
  • Family Continuity
  • The House of the Seven Gables
  • LEAP for Education C
  • Chica Project

MORE ABOUT LOUISE
Career experience

The first three decades of Ms. Borke’s career was spent in the financial services industry – primarily commercial lending and risk management, including a specialty in Sarbanes Oxley compliance. She worked in New York and Hong Kong for Bankers Trust Company before joining Barclays Bank. The most recent and longest stint of her financial services career was spent at State Street Bank and Trust Company, where – after managing various operating divisions – she achieved the most senior executive position responsible for insurance and corporate trust in Enterprise Risk Management.

Currently Ms. Borke serves as the Organization VP of the Northern New England Region of Hadassah, where she was a past Chapter President. She chairs the Honorary Board of the Massachusetts Down Syndrome Congress, where she previously served as Board Chair and Chair of the Governance Committee. As a member of the Department of Developmental Services’ Regional Citizen Advisory Board for the Merrimack Valley, Ms. Borke also serves on their Complaint Resolution Team. She is a Trustee of the Massachusetts State Committee of the National Museum for Women in the Arts. Her past leadership has included multiple Board Chair and Trustee positions.

During the Romney administration, Ms. Borke was a member of the Governor’s Public Education Nominating Council. She also tutors middle school girls at Esperanza Academy in Lawrence as a member of the Merrimack Valley Jewish Literacy Coalition.

Education

BS in Economics, Multinational Enterprise and Organizational Management, University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School

Board or Volunteer Service

Merrimack Valley Chapter of Hadassah and Northern New England Region of Hadassah; MA Down Syndrome Congress; National Down Syndrome Society; Down Syndrome Affiaites in Action; Department of Developmental Services Regional Citizen Advisory Board for the Merrimack Valley; MA State Committee of the National Museum for Women in the Arts; Public Education Nominating Council of the Commonwealth of MA

Interests

Exercising, walking, listening to podcasts, reading, watching movies, rug hooking, donating platelets, playing mahjong


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