Leni Wilsmann

Leni joined Conservation Impact in May 2005. As an associate, she is responsible for client service, project development and management, and consulting to meet client needs. Leni has 27-years of experience in nonprofit management, conservation, and ecology. Her experience includes program and organizational development, management and planning, fundraising, government relations and partnership development, as well as ecological research, inventory and monitoring and conservation planning. With a strong background in nonprofit administration and conservation science, Leni is especially interested in understanding the visions that motivate conservation organizations and helping groups develop the practical, well-founded objectives needed to reach them.

Prior to joining Conservation Impact, Leni worked at The Nature Conservancy for 21 years.
Starting as the program zoologist for Michigan’s Natural Heritage Program, a collaboration between the Conservancy and state government, she went on to become that program’s director in 1988. In 1993 she accepted a detail to the Home Office in Arlington, VA to coordinate management transitions in its science division and to oversee support to the North American Natural Heritage Network with programs in all 50 states and several Canadian provinces. Leni moved to Boulder, CO in 1997 as the Conservancy’s western science director and later became the director of science support, overseeing the regional science offices that supported broad-scale planning activities in North America. Leni also assisted with the development of a spin-off organization, NatureServe, and later served as the liaison between the two organizations.

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