Leah Kral

Leah Kral is an expert facilitator and author who helps nonprofits innovate and further social change.

As senior director of strategy and innovation at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, Leah Kral provides tailored workshops and consulting to internal teams and to a network of nonprofit partners across the country. For decades, she has been helping teams to break out of the busy daily routine and draw out their best creative thinking. She helps teams to design pilots, program strategies and meaningful evaluation approaches, leading to better outcomes and more compelling stories for supporters. As the author of Innovation for Social Change (Wiley, 2022), she has a passion for helping altruistic organizations achieve their missions, and is an active volunteer in her community. She lives in northern Virginia with her husband Richard.