John Glier

John Glier is the Chief Executive Officer of GG+A, a global consulting firm in philanthropic management headquartered in Chicago and London.

Mr. Glier joined GG+A in 1981, and has served as its Chief Executive for more than 30 years. Mr. Glier is recognized internationally for providing strategic direction and philanthropic counsel to many leading universities, academic healthcare institutions, cultural and human service organizations, and as an advisor to some of the largest fundraising campaigns in higher education. He has worked with the staff of well over 200 nonprofits and with a wide range of voluntary leaders, noted philanthropists, and Board leaders of distinguished institutions in North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia.

Mr. Glier has delivered numerous presentations over the last 35 years to a range of professional organizations, including the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC); Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE, CASE Europe, and CASE Asia-Pacific); American Bar Association Jackson Hole Conference on Law School Development; Woodmark Forum; Aspen Institute; American Alliance of Museums; Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP); and to a variety of programs for university Deans and Presidents.

He has spoken on many different topics over the years, including campaign planning and strategy in cultural, medical, human services, and educational institutions; building philanthropic board structures; the critical roles presidents and deans play in higher education fundraising; building largescale compelling propositions, the key stages of the successful major gift process; and talent management and high performance across the nonprofit sector. Mr. Glier is an emeritus member of the Providence College Board of Trustees, served on the Board of Directors of the Family Institute of Northwestern University, and serves as a Life Member of the Division of Humanities Council of the University of Chicago.

He has served on the Board of Directors of the New Trier Township High School Educational Foundation and was a founding director of the Winnetka Public Schools Foundation. He has also served as the Director and Chair of the Giving Institute (formerly AAFRC), as a member of EUConsult and the CASE Industry Advisory Council, and more recently as a member of the AMAtlas Advisory Committee to CASE, and a member of the executive committee of the Generosity Commission.

Of particular note is Mr. Glier’s continuous work over many years with numerous distinguished universities and academic medical centers and their multiple campaigns. His clients have included Amherst College; University of Amsterdam; Brandeis University; Brown University; University of California, Los Angeles; California Institute of Technology; University of Cambridge; University of Chicago; Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia; Columbia University; Cornell University; Curtis Institute of Music; Duke University; Emory University; Georgetown University; Guggenheim Museum; INSEAD; The Johns Hopkins Institutions; London School of Economics; Mayo Clinic; McGill University; Monticello and the Thomas Jefferson Foundation; The Ohio State University; University of Oxford; Pennsylvania State University; Princeton University; University of Queensland; San Francisco Symphony; Singapore Management University; University of Southern California; Stanford University; Sydney Opera House; University of Toronto; the United Nations High Commissioner on Refugees; University of Washington; and Yale University.

Mr. Glier attended Providence College (Rhode Island), the Université de Fribourg (Switzerland), and the University of Chicago, and was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship. He holds degrees in English and Comparative Literature.

Grenzebach Glier and Associates has served more than 3,000 institutions and organizations since 1961, providing counsel to more than 30 of the top 50 globally ranked universities, all 63 members of the American Association of Universities, more than 100 of America’s most distinguished academic medical centers and hospitals, more than 50 British and European universities, Canada and Australia’s leading research universities, as well as arts, voluntary, and other nonprofit organizations around the world. The firm advises institutions with aggregate fundraising and campaign goals of more than $60 billion.

Clients:

• The Academic Medical Centre, University of Amsterdam
• American Bar Association
• American Heart Association
• Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago
• Arizona State University
• Association of American Medical Colleges
• Babson College
• Barack Obama Foundation
• Ben-Gurion University
• Beth Israel Hospital
• Boys & Girls Clubs of America
• Brandeis University
• Brown University
• California Institute of Technology
• California Institute of the Arts
• Cambridge University Health Partners
• Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh
• Catholic Charities Archdiocese of New York
• Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
• Center for Strategic and International Studies
• Children's Hospital Association
• Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
• City of Hope
• Club de Madrid
• College of William and Mary
• Colorado School of Mines
• Columbia University
• Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston
• Cornell University
• Corpus Christi College Curtis Institute of Music
• Cyprus Research and Educational Foundation
• Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
• Dartmouth College
• Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
• Development Corporation
• Duke Cancer Institute
• Duke University
• École Polytechnique de Montréal
• Eisenhower Fellowships
• Emory University
• Emory University – The Robert W. Woodruff Health Sciences Center
• Fordham University
• Georgetown University
• Georgia Institute of Technology
• Grinnell College
• H. Lee Moffit Cancer Center & Research Institute
• Harvard Medical School
• Harvard University
• HEC Montréal
• Huntsman Cancer Foundation
• Imperial College London
• Indiana University
• Indianapolis Museum of Art
• INSEAD
• Institute of Cancer Research
• Ivey School of Business
• The Jewish Museum
• Johns Hopkins Institutions
• Keck Medicine of the University of Southern California
• Kellogg College
• LDS Philanthropies/Brigham Young University
• London Business School
• London School of Economics and Political Science
• London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
• Los Angeles County Museum of Art
• Los Angeles Orthopaedic Hospital
• Los Angeles Philharmonic
• Loyola University of Chicago
• Lyric Opera of Chicago
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Mayo Clinic, Rochester
• McGill University
• McGill University Health Centre
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
• Merton College
• Michigan State University
• Monticello, the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation
• Museum of Contemporary Art
• National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
• National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)
• National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship
• The National Trust for Scotland
• New American Schools
• New York Philharmonic
• Northwestern University
• NPR
• The Ohio State University
• Ohio University
• Olin College of Engineering
• Oxford University
• The Pacific Northwest Ballet
• Penn Medicine
• Pennsylvania State University
• The Pew Charitable Trusts
• Philadelphia Museum of Art
• Phillips Academy
• Pomona College
• Princeton Healthcare System Foundation
• Princeton University
• Providence College
• Purdue University
• Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
• Rhode Island School of Design
• Rutgers University, Newark
• Rush University Medical Center
• San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
• San Francisco Symphony
• Sarasota Orchestra
• Scripps Institution of Oceanography
• Singapore Management University
• Smithsonian Institution
• The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and Museum
• Southern Methodist University
• Spring Hill College
• St. Catherine’s College
• St. Cross College
• St. Louis Symphony Orchestra
• St. Michael’s Hospital Foundation
• Stanford University
• Stanford University Medical Center
• State University of New York at Stony Brook
• Stephens College
• The Sutton Trust
• Sydney Opera House
• Thomas Jefferson University
• United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
• United States Military Academy
• United States Naval Academy Foundation
• United States Olympic Committee
• Université de Montréal
• University College London
• University of Aberdeen
• University of Amsterdam
• University of Bath
• University of Birmingham
• University of Bristol
• University of California, Davis
• University of California, Los Angeles
• University of California, San Francisco
• University of Cambridge
• University of Chicago
• University of Chicago Booth School of Business
• University of Cincinnati
• University of Colorado System
• University of Connecticut
• University of Durham
• University of Florida
• University of Hawaii
• University of Illinois
• The University of Kansas
• University of Kent in Canterbury
• University of Leeds
• University of Massachusetts Amherst
• University of Melbourne
• University of Missouri-Columbia
• University of Notre Dame
• University of Oregon
• University of Oxford
• University of Pennsylvania
• University of Pittsburgh Medical and Health Sciences Foundation
• The University of Queensland
• University of Rochester
• University of Southern California
• University of Strathclyde
• The University of Texas at Austin
• The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
• University of Toronto
• University of Virginia
• University of Warwick
• University of Washington
• University of Wisconsin
• University of Wyoming
• Vanderbilt University
• Vanderbilt University Medical Center
• Villanova University
• Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
• Weill Cornell Medicine
• Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
• Whitney Museum of American Art
• Yale-New Haven Hospital
• Yale University
• Yale University School of Medicine