

He served on the boards of Fidelity Charitable, Western Governors University, UC Merced, the Educational Results Partnership, the College Futures Foundation, California Competes, the Opportunity Institute, Commonwealth Club, the National Association of Nonpartisan Reformers, and. He also previously served as the vice chair of Common Cause, the vice chair of the Stanford Graduate School of Business Advisory Council, and a trustee at the Committee for Economic Development. He is chair emeritus of the Bay Area Council and their Economic Institute. He was formerly the chair of New America and Children Now, co-chair of California Forward, and chair of Fuse Corps. Over the course of his career, he has helped dozens of government, corporate, and nonprofit clients meet their most difficult management challenges. He served for a decade on the McKinsey Shareholder Council. He founded McKinsey's US state and local public sector consulting practice and led the firm's knowledge development efforts, overseeing the McKinsey Global Institute and the firm's communicationsΓÇöincluding the McKinsey Quarterly.

He is also a senior partner emeritus of McKinsey & Company, a lecturer on inequality at the Stanford Business School, and chair and primary owner of the Coastside News Group. Lenny Mendonca is the former chief economic and business advisor to Governor Gavin Newsom.
