Anne Walton

Managing Partner

Anne is a seasoned business and nonprofit leader with extensive organizational transformation and team-building experience in environmental and animal welfare, behavioral health, and human services organizations.

As the Managing Partner, she is involved in all aspects of management, strategic planning, client relations, and candidate placement at The Ramsay Group, bringing her deep knowledge of executive leadership, team building, and operations to help clients build highly-effective leadership teams.

Prior to joining The Ramsay Group, Anne served as an executive of South Bay Children’s Health Center, a nonprofit organization providing essential mental health and developmental services to underserved children and their families in Los Angeles, California.

For over twelve years, Anne lived and worked in Africa as the President and Founder of AWS Consulting and the Africa Lion Conservation Foundation (ALCF), where she created and directed high-impact projects such as the first and only study of resident and transient lion groups in Nairobi National Park, the founding of a cheetah sanctuary in Northern Kenya, and a study of endangered dugongs along the East African coast. While in Africa, she also co-founded an orphanage and school for Kenyan children whose parents were HIV-positive, drug or alcohol addicted, or deceased.

As a long-time and effective consultant, Anne has provided leadership, development skills, marketing, fundraising, and communications to nonprofit and non-governmental (NGO) organizations across the globe.

Prior to her time in Africa, Anne directed several global nonprofits in the San Francisco Bay area, including Seacology, an environmental conservation organization dedicated to the preservation of islands, island ecology, marine areas, and island cultures and the Rainforest Action Network which preserves forests and protects climate. She has also served as an executive at luxury hotel groups and at major market radio stations.

Anne holds a BS in Psychology from the University of Virginia.

In her spare time, Anne is a passionate advocate for environmental and animal welfare causes and for underserved individuals and families in behavioral health and human services.