Bobbi Silten is FSG’s Chief of People & Culture and a Managing Director in the U.S. corporate consulting practice. Prior to this role, Bobbi was the interim co-CEO of FSG while the organization searched for its new leader. She joined FSG as Managing Director of the Shared Value Initiative. She is the co-editor of the Purpose Playbook, a guide to help business leaders put purpose into practice with shared value. She is also the co-author of the guide to Centering Equity in Corporate Purpose and co-founded FSG’s Purpose Studio.
Bobbi has been a long-time practitioner of leading social change through business and she brings deep experience as a purpose-driven business leader. During her time as head of the Gap Foundation she oversaw the creation of the P.A.C.E. program for female garment workers as well as This Way Ahead, a first jobs program for underserved youth leveraging Gap Inc. leaders and stores. In 2020-21, she was the co-chair of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Systemic Inequalities and Social Cohesion.
Before FSG
Bobbi spent 12 years at Gap Inc. where, in her most recent role, she served as Executive Vice President, Global Talent & Sustainability. Bobbi sat on the company’s senior leadership team and oversaw global talent, communications, government affairs, sustainability, and Gap Foundation. Bobbi was also on the Foundation’s Board of Trustees. She joined Gap Inc. in 2005 as the head of Gap Foundation and led the transformation of the organization based on a shared value strategy. Prior to joining Gap Inc., Bobbi spent a decade at Levi Strauss & Co., with her last five years as President of Dockers U.S. Bobbi co-founded and chaired Reimagining Service, a national cross-sector effort to increase the impact of volunteering in the U.S. and was a founding board member of the Alliance for Bangladesh Worker Safety. In 2011, she was appointed by President Obama to serve on the White House Council for Community Solutions.
Education
- University of California, Berkeley, BA, Social Science
Affiliations
- Truist Foundation, Board of Directors
- LifeHikes, Global Advisor
- Summer Search, National Board of Directors (Emeritus)
On Working at FSG
I have long admired FSG and feel privileged to be on a team that is bringing fresh thinking and strategic solutions to some of society’s most challenging problems.
