John Tyler works with private, public, and corporate foundations and funder collaboratives to achieve their philanthropic goals through strategic planning, program design and management, stakeholder engagement and communications, and operational alignment. He provides varied strategic, governance, operational, and programmatic support for TPI clients and projects, including designing and implementing giving strategies, managing large regional grant portfolios, conducting in-depth research and evaluations, orchestrating national landscape scans, identifying philanthropic needs and opportunities, facilitating meetings and retreats, and moving the field toward intentionality and impact. John contributes to TPI thought leadership and field-building efforts through public speaking, research, and writing. He is a passionate advocate for embracing complexity, equity, and a lifelong learning mindset in philanthropy.

Prior to joining TPI in 2022, John served as executive director of the Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis where he led the organization through the development of commitments to antiracism, COVID-19 pandemic adaptations, faculty training programs, and new partnership efforts among other initiatives. He has also served as a program analyst at Mathematica Policy Research, a program manager at the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, a United States Peace Corps Volunteer, a refugee camp volunteer grant writer, a Food Policy Associate at the Baltimore City Office of Sustainability and more. John has a Master of Public Policy from Johns Hopkins, specializing in food and agriculture policy, and received his undergraduate degree from The University of Iowa, majoring in international studies and African environmental history.