Hamutal Gouri

Hamutal Gouri is a cultural critic, lecturer, consultant, and storyteller for personal, organisational, social and political transformation. She has a BA in English literature and interdisciplinary studies, and an MA in cultural studies from the Hebrew University, Jerusalem.

She served as executive director of the Dafna Fund, Israel’s first and only feminist fund. She continues to serve as a consultant to foundations as an expert on funding with a gender lens. Her areas of expertise include leadership development, gender audits and mainstreaming, diversity, inclusion, political motherhood and healing trauma through storytelling. She teaches a course on Gender, Leadership and Action in Civil Society Organisations in the MA track in non-profit management at the Rothberg International School at the Hebrew University.

Hamutal Gouri is a passionate storyteller and performer: she develops training modules and materials on impact storytelling and writes a blog, in Hebrew and English, Storytelling for (Social) Change.

A seasoned facilitator and trainer, she holds a diploma in group facilitation from the Megid Institute, and in team facilitation and management from the Martin Buber Institute, at the Hebrew University.