Director of Learning and Innovation

Board Member

Director of Learning and Innovation

Rev. Kathleen McShane is the director of learning and innovation for Texas Methodist Foundation. Kathi retired from active ministry as an ordained Elder in the California-Nevada Conference of the United Methodist Church in 2022. She led four congregations and served for eight years as the vice president for Institutional Advancement at Pacific School of Religion. Before attending seminary and beginning her life in ministry, she was a civil litigator, practicing law in the San Francisco Bay Area.

In her final appointment in Los Altos, California, Kathi co-founded the Changemaker Initiative, which is a small national movement of churches committed to empowering lay people to become compassion-driven changemakers like Jesus. That work has led her toward multiple projects that are re-imagining leadership for the church of the future. She is the co-author, with Rabbi Elan Babchuck, of Picking Up the Pieces: Leadership after Empire (Fortress Press, to be published January 2024).

Kathi lives on a vineyard on the Central Coast of California.

Board Members

Ruby D. Anderson

Rev. David S. Bell

Roland Fernandes

Dr. Bruce L. Hartman

Rev. Mary Kohlstaedt Huycke

Dr. Maggie Jackson

George E. Johnson, Jr.

Charles King

Kristi Kinnison

Wayne Moy

Rev René A. Perez Avalos

Rev. Dr. Gil Rendle

Rev. Dr. Eduardo (Eddie) Rivera

Rev. Dr. Owen Ross

Rev. Dr. Kristin Stoneking

Rev. Dr. Ron Swain

Carmen F.S. Vianese

Rev. Dr. Cynthia D. Weems

Rev. Sara A. White

Kay Yeager

Rev. Lisa Greenwood

David McCaskill

Curtis Vick

Paula Sini

Tom Stanton

Rev. Dr. Blair Thompson

Janet Mitchell

Justin Gould

Rev. Kathleen McShane

Derrick Scott, III

Krystol Wheeler

Leah Yancey

Chris Miller

Rev. Leroy Barber

Bishop Héctor A. Burgos Núñez

Rev. Dr. Christopher Pierson

Cindy Thompson

Daniel Park

Angie Thurston

Rev. Dr. Blair Thompson

Derrick Scott, III

Eugene Kim

Lauren Hanks

Pamela Gray

Wendy Abel

Rev. Alicia Forde