Summer Gathercole

SHG Advisors is a strategy and management consulting firm deeply committed to working with people who want to improve our communities. We advise corporations, foundations and nonprofits to identify solutions and achieve comprehensive, measurable and timely change. Summer is a skilled facilitator who excels at working with contentious groups of people and identifying the common ground that they can all work toward. Summer is most passionate about behavioral health and facilitated the Colorado Crisis Steering Committee in 2018. Two reports resulted from that work: (1) recommendations to improve the crisis system in Colorado, and (2) an independent report produced by Summer who, as an unbiased party, was able to identify more specific areas for enhancement. Despite the focus on behavioral health, it is easy for Summer to get excited about almost any project that helps to make our communities a better place. She has volunteered as a job coach at the Women’s Bean Project, and is a graduate of Leadership Denver Class of 2015. Summer has been appointed to Governor Hickenlooper’s Commission on Community Service. Summer is also a Board Member for The Children’s Treehouse Foundation. During her free time, you can find her on the hiking trails, or traveling on some far-off adventure around the world. In October 2017, Summer went north to photograph polar bears in the wild, a once-in-a-lifetime experience.