Bio

Charlie Buckholtz is an Executive Director & Organizational Consultant with over 15 years of experience catalyzing innovation and transformative change in organizations and communities. In his role as ED of the Organizational Design Lab — through grassroots community engagement, dynamic multi-team facilitation, and the lens of Human-Centered Design — he has both transformed and cultivated sustained excellence in non-profit organizations dedicated to community-building through empowering forms of user engagement.

Charlie is also a writer, podcaster, and occasional standup comic.

Prior to his organizational design work, Charlie spent six years living in Jerusalem as Senior Editor at the Shalom Hartman Institute, coauthoring and editing books on Jewish thought. He served for three years as Rabbi of the historic Sixth Street Community Synagogue in NY's East Village, and started and led numerous community-building projects and creative cohorts of rabbis, artists, and others along the way. In the year following his ordination, he held a year-long fellowship as a rabbinical apprentice to thought-leader Rabbi Yitz Greenberg.

Charlie received a BA in English Literature from Williams College, an MFA in fiction writing from Syracuse University, and rabbinical ordination from the Bat Ayin Yeshiva. He travels often, but is based in Takoma Park, MD,  where he lives with his wife and son.

PBS Religion & Ethics Newsweekly:  "Charlie & Sedar"  (VIDEO)

A segment from a 2007 episode of the PBS show about me, my best childhood friend, Sedar Chapelle, and our divergent, convergent spiritual paths. At the time I was the Orthodox rabbi of a shul in Manhattan's East Village.