Ingrid Boucher
Ingrid’s passion is improving opportunities and outcomes for vulnerable and marginalized people by helping nonprofit and education-related organizations operate in strategic, efficient, high-impact ways. She uses her 25+ years of experience in education and social services to help clients create mindful, meaningful processes that guide transformation and propel their organizations in successful pursuit of their missions. Ingrid understands that effective change begins with strong relationships that support honest conversations and lead organizations in bold, desirable directions. She has an abiding commitment to supporting organizations that serve and work on behalf of people who have been historically and structurally oppressed.
After starting her career as a Teach For America teacher in South Louisiana, Ingrid took on roles with The New Teacher Project, Philadelphia Teaching Fellows Program, and KIPP Philadelphia Schools before becoming a partner at the consulting firm Strategy Arts. In 2015, Ingrid founded Bloom Planning and continues her work with practitioners and leaders in organizations large and small, complex and simple, to approach and solve challenges in school, youth development, community, nonprofit, and municipal settings. Ingrid and Bloom have worked with clients across the country and, in her hometown of Philadelphia, with many of the region’s leading charter school networks, district-run schools, education organizations, independent schools, early childhood education providers, human services agencies, and progressive collective endeavors.
These experiences have informed Ingrid’s deep understanding of the attitudes, behaviors, and practices making social change organizations most effective. She believes that experience-driven, sector-specific knowledge is essential to truly understanding the challenges committed organizations face when developing and implementing strategies and initiatives.
Ingrid holds master’s degrees in education leadership and social work from the University of Pennsylvania as well as a BA in French studies and anthropology from Smith College. Additionally, she is a trained meeting facilitator, a competitive dragon boater and co-captain of the gold-medal-winning 2015 US Premier Women’s National Dragon Boat Team, an active civic leader in her neighborhood, currently presiding as Judge of Elections for Ward 5, District 16, and board vice chair and secretary of North 10, Philadelphia, a community-centered, place-based, multi-focal service and growth organization working in the Hunting Park-East Tioga section of N. Philadelphia.