Anne Meysenburg

Anne Meysenburg is a consultant at Embolden and the founder of Emersa Advisors.

Anne brings more than 20 years of experience building, leading, and advising purpose-driven organizations across the Omaha and Nebraska nonprofit community. She founded Emersa Advisors to partner with leaders and boards navigating the moments that define what comes next: executive transitions, governance challenges, strategic crossroads, and the work of turning collective intention into sustained collective action.

Most recently, Anne spent a decade at the Omaha Community Foundation, one of the largest community foundations in the country. There she connected grantmaking strategy and cross-sector initiatives to community impact, led the Foundation's community investment portfolio, and helped build participatory grantmaking practices that center the people and neighborhoods closest to the work. She understands the funder perspective from the inside, including the discipline it takes to support nonprofit grantees through real organizational change rather than around it.

Before joining the Foundation, Anne led Live Well Omaha, a multi-sector collaborative working across public health, philanthropy, and policy. Earlier in her career, Anne served as the first Executive Director of the Kent Bellows Studio & Center for Visual Arts, where she built governance, fundraising, and operational infrastructure from the ground up.

Anne has been on every side of this work: as an executive director starting from scratch, as a collaborative leader, and as a senior funder shaping how resources move. She understands what it takes to translate complex priorities into systems that hold: governance structures, accountability frameworks, leadership pipelines, and decision-making processes that work under pressure. That is what she brings to every engagement.

Anne comes to this work through decades of board service across the Omaha and Nebraska nonprofit community, including the Nonprofit Association of the Midlands, the Refugee Empowerment Center, and the Immigrant Legal Center. She holds a Master's of Public Affairs with certificates in Nonprofit Management and Public Policy from the University of Missouri-Columbia, a bachelor's in communications from the University of Nebraska Omaha, and a Chartered Advisor in Philanthropy designation.