Meet the Instructor

Brian Hughes

Nonprofit Leadership Consultant, LPA

Brian Hughes is a nonprofit consultant specializing in transitional leadership and change management with LPA (formerly Loveall Price & Associates), where he became the interim executive director for LifeWire in 2022, helping the organization install a new co-leadership model. In addition to providing interim executive leadership, he advises and coaches boards and key staff as they navigate change, leading projects to improve systems and organizational culture.

Before consulting, Hughes worked as operations director for Porchlight, Kent Youth and Family Services, and in multiple roles for Seattle Housing Authority. In 2007, he launched a nonprofit organization at age  26, leading it through numerous growth stages over eleven years, developing a staff of more than 20 employees and establishing programs on multiple continents.

Raised in the Seattle area, Hughes holds a Master of Science in Management and Leadership from Western Governors University.