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See also: 2008 Faculty Kristine Alvarez, MBA, Manager, Advisory Services, Nonprofit Finance Fund. Kristine Alvarez joined NFF in June 2005, and is a responsible for delivering the Nonprofit Business Analysis and managing client relationships, primarily for the Child Care Initiative. Prior to joining NFF, Ms. Alvarez served as a consultant to nonprofit organizations in the Washington, DC metropolitan area. In this role, she worked with leading organizations – including the American Red Cross and Independent Sector – on business planning, social enterprise, and communications initiatives. Ms. Alvarez’s previous experience includes a role as communications director of City Year Greater Philadelphia, a youth service program. Ms. Alvarez holds an MBA from George Washington University and a BA in Communications from the University of Pennsylvania. Seminar: Linking Money to Mission, with co-faculty member Gar Kelley Session I Peter J. Dean, PhD heads Leaders by Design, the men’s leadership development division of The Leader’s Edge. Dr. Dean is a lecturer in Communication, Ethics and Leadership at the Wharton School and Fels Center of Government at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Dean held the O. Alfred Granum Chair in Management at The American College in Bryn Mawr where he was a Management and Leadership professor and founded the MSM in Leadership graduate degree program. He has been on the faculty at Fordham University, University of Tennessee, Pennsylvania State University and the University of Iowa. Peter holds his PhD in Learning Psychology and Human Resources management from the University of Iowa and an MS degree from the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Dean’s articles have been published in Journal of Business Ethics, Human Resource Development Quarterly, Performance Improvement Quarterly, Performance Improvement Journal, Quarterly Review of Distance Education, Australian Journal of Education Technology, and the Financial Times. Seminar: Leadership and Management Differences Juliet J. Goodfriend. Ms. Goodfriend is Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Bryn Mawr College Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research and the Chair of the School’s Nonprofit Executive Leadership Institute (NELI) Steering Committee. She has over forty years of leadership experience in the worlds of business, philanthropy, and higher education. Ms. Goodfriend is the retired founder and CEO of Strategic Marketing Corporation, the largest custom marketing research firm servicing the global pharmaceutical industry. She now heads the Good Friend Group and Foundation, and is President of the Bryn Mawr Film Institute, a nonprofit organization she founded to acquire and restore an historic movie theater and create a film art house and school of film studies. She is a frequent speaker on themes of leadership and success. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, The Fairmount Park Conservancy, The Inglis Foundation, The Kardon Institute for Arts Therapy, Amaryllis Theater, Devine Foods, Laboratory Skin Care. She is a Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellow and through that role visits liberal arts colleges in the United States where she speaks on issues ranging from business ethics to organizational leadership. She is the first recipient of the highest award in her field, the Richard Fordyce Award for integrity and creativity, as well as the Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce 2000 Paradigm Award for the outstanding businesswoman in Philadelphia, the Governor’s Award as one of the top 50 businesswomen in Pennsylvania, the Juliette Lowe Take the Lead Award from the Girl Scouts of SE Pennsylvania, and the March of Dimes Award. Seminar: Rhetoric and Public Speaking Session I Donna Harris, MA, MSW, LCSW. Ms. Harris is currently on staff at the Bryn Mawr College Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research as the Field Instruction Specialist and an Instructor. She teaches Issues of Cultural Diversity; Foundation Practice; and Practice with Individuals, Families and Groups. She has also taught Cultural Diversity and been involved in field instruction at New York University and Yeshiva University. She has 20 years experience working in the social services industry as a clinician, supervisor, clinical director and consultant. As a consultant, she has conducted workshops and trainings in the areas of Clinical Supervision, Team Building, Chemical Dependency, Traumatical Stress Syndrome, Multicultural Issues, Interpersonal Psychoanalysis and Parenting Skills. In addition, she maintains a private practice in Springfield, PA, specializing in multiculutral challenges, traumatic stress and women's concerns. Seminar : Managing Diversity Session III Judith Katz, EdD. Dr. Judith Kapustin Katz is a licensed psychologist with more than 20 years experience working with individuals and organizations in transition. She has served as a consultant to management teams in health care, higher education, and the profit and not for profit sectors. Her areas of expertise and interest include assessment for career development and transition, career counseling, change management, and coaching to enhance effectiveness. Dr. Katz is currently Educational Consultant at Temple University School of Medicine. Her experiences in career development also include: work as a Consultant for several career management and consulting firms; fourteen years as Director of Career Planning and Placement at Swarthmore College; consultant to the Graduate Career Development and Placement Center at Wharton; faculty member of the HERS/Bryn Mawr Summer Institute for Women in Higher Education Administration; and ELAM (Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine). Dr. Katz has authored professional articles and made numerous presentations in her areas of expertise. She received her AB in psychology from Temple University, her MA in psychology from the University of Michigan, and her doctoral degree in counseling from the University of Pennsylvania. She is certified in various career and organization evelopment methodologies including the MBTI and Benchmarks 360 and in Cognitive Behavior Therapy. Seminar: MBTI and Group Work Session I Garvester Kelley: Vice President, Mid-Atlantic Region, Nonprofit Finance Fund (NFF). Gar Kelley joined NFF as Vice President of the Mid-Atlantic Region in January 2007. Mr. Kelley recently served as Senior Project Manager at Public/Private Ventures responsible for a multitude of projects including ex-prisoner reentry, youth violence prevention, and faith/community-based collaboratives. For the past 20 years, he has championed community economic development and individual economic self-sufficiency for marginalized people, both domestically and internationally. Mr. Kelley has served as a missionary for the Presbyterian Church (USA) in Eastern, Central and Western Africa. His service included coordination of educational programs, evangelism, community development, disaster assistance and hunger initiatives – all with an emphasis on empowerment, sustainability and local ownership. Mr. Kelley has 15 years of financial planning and management experience in the information systems, banking and telecommunications sectors. He earned his Bachelor degree in Finance from Hampton University, and the Masters of Divinity and Masters of Theology degrees from Princeton Theological Seminary. Seminar: Linking Money to Mission, with co-faculty member Kristine Alvarez Session I Donald W. Kramer, Esq. Mr. Kramer is chair of Nonprofit Law at Montgomery, McCracken, Walker & Rhoads, LLP in Philadelphia. He has more than 30 years of experience dealing with the concerns of nonprofit organizations, not only as a lawyer, but also as a teacher, writer, publisher and board member. He has worked with nonprofits of all types and sizes, helping structure start-up situations and restructure multi-organizational health and educational systems. He counsels on a wide range of nonprofit corporate structure and governance, private and community foundations, continuing care retirement communities, exempt organization taxation, low income housing tax credit transactions, real estate, charitable giving and other nonprofit issues. Mr. Kramer is the editor and publisher of Don Kramer's Nonprofit Issues®, an electronic newsletter of "Nonprofit Law You Need To Know"(www.nonprofitissues.com). He has represented numerous nonprofit organizations in multiple matters of corporate restructuring to protect assets and centralize strategic planning and implementation. Mr. Kramer serves as a member of the board of directors of the Pennsylvania Association of Nonprofit Organizations. He teaches nonprofit law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School and is a regular lecturer for several other organizations. Mr. Kramer is the director of the Philadelphia Council for Community Advancement and the Planned Giving Council of Greater Philadelphia. He also serves on the Board of the Octavia Hill Association, a corporation providing housing primarily for moderate income families in Philadelphia. Seminar: Legal and Ethical Issues for Leadership Session III Ruth McCambridge. Ms. McCambridge has more than thirty-five years of experience working in and with social justice and community based nonprofits. For twenty of these years McCambridge worked in and managed community based and social change organizations. In 1987, McCambridge took a longstanding interest in organizational dynamics to the Boston Foundation where she developed a statewide management assistance program for homeless and battered woman shelters and managed the Fund for the Homeless. She stayed at the Boston Foundation for ten years, helping along the way to launch and manage a number of other collaboratively funded capacity building initiatives. McCambridge is now the Editor in Chief of the Nonprofit Quarterly, an innovative journal for nonprofit leaders. She considers herself, at base, an organizer; her work is motivated by a deep belief in the need for organizations that help people with relatively little influence to develop their individual and collective voice and power. 2008 Keynote Address: Leadership Without a Safety Net Session I Linda May, PhD. Dr. May, an Associate at CFAR, the Center for Applied Research, specializes in helping companies work through large, messy, complicated change efforts. She is particularly adept in settings where people feel stuck and overwhelmed. One of Dr. May’s strengths is her ability to see a situation as an outsider. From working as a journalist and as an anthropologist, she has taught herself to see patterns and themes where on the surface others might see only isolated events and confusion. Her areas of expertise are Organizational Development; Initiative Design; and Systems Thinking -- understanding the complex ripple effects set off by actions taken in one part of an organization or industry. She has a Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania and is the former Director of Planning for the Office of Information Systems and Computing, University of Pennsylvania. Seminar: The Campaign Model for Change Session I Karen L. Proudford, PhD. Dr. Proudford works with organizations interested in using constructive modes of interaction among employees, clients, and constituent groups to facilitate the attainment of organizational goals and objectives. Dr. Proudford is an Associate Professor of Management at the Earl G. Graves School of Business and Management, Morgan State University, and teaches courses in organizational behavior, human resource management and related disciplines. She is also affiliated with the Center for Gender in Organizations, at the Simmons School of Management. She received her B.S. degree in Accounting summa cum laude from Florida A&M University and her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Management from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to beginning her career in academia, she held positions at Honeywell, Inc. and IBM. Dr. Proudford’s research focuses on group and intergroup dynamics, diversity and conflict. She has presented papers and lectures on these topics -- and on the related issues of leadership, organizational growth and change, and motivation -- at academic and professional conferences. Her work has appeared in Group and Organization Management, the Journal of Labor and Employment Law, the Journal of Career Development, The Diversity Factor, and the International Review of Women and Leadership. In addition, she contributed to the volume, Addressing Cultural Issues in Organizations: Beyond the Corporate Context. She is currently engaged in research that examines the conditions under which women rise to leadership positions in U.S. organizations. She is particularly interested in the social networks of female managers, with an emphasis on the risks and rewards of building relationships with influential others who differ by race, gender, culture and the like. Seminar: Group and System Dynamics: Top, Middles and Bottoms Session II Susan Schoolfield, MSS, MLSP, MBA Ms. Schoolfield is founder and president of Creative Healthcare Strategies, a healthcare and human service management consulting firm. She has over 20 years working with individuals, teams and organizations in organizational development, change management and performance improvement. She is a consultant and trainer to hospitals, healthcare and human service provider agencies, County and State Offices of Mental Health, Mental Retardation and Dr4ug and Alcohol, and Managed Care organizations, as well as to the Center for Medicaid and Medicare Services. She also provides executive coaching to executive directors and administrators and is certified in various career and organizational development methodologies including the Myers Briggs Type Inventory. Seminar: Measuring Organization Effectiveness and Performance Session III Ann Schmieg is currently the Director of Children and Youth with the United Way of Southeastern Pennsylvania, responsible for overseeing all of the organization’s children and youth programs and grant-making. She originally joined United Way in 2003 as Director of Capacity Building and New Ventures, where she authored United Way’s Promising Practices. Prior to joining the United Way, Ann worked as a Senior Consultant at the La Salle University Nonprofit Center providing training, technical assistance, and capacity building consulting services to small to mid-sized nonprofit organizations focusing her work on board development and strategic planning. Ann has served on numerous nonprofit boards and community groups including Merion Mercy Academy, Norwood-Fontbonne Academy, the YWCA of Philadelphia, and Camp Fire Boys and Girls. Currently she serves as Board Chair for the Commonwealth Youth choir. She is on the Advisory Board for the Nonprofit Executive Leadership Institute at Bryn Mawr College Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research. Ann holds a Master’s Degree in both Social Science and Law and Social Policy from the Graduate School of Social Work at Bryn Mawr College. She received a Master’s Degree in Business Administration, with a focus on marketing and a Bachelor’s of Science Degree in marketing and management from La Salle University. She is also an adjunct faculty member at St. Joseph’s University Erivan K. Haub School of Business. Seminar: Board Governance and Best Practices Session IV Karen Stephenson, Phd is a corporate anthropologist and lauded as a pioneer in the growing field of social-network business consultants. She is president of Netform, a company she founded in 1997 that maps and measures social capital in organizations. NetForm, Inc. was recognized in 2001 as one of the top 100 leading innovation companies by CIO magazine. In 2006, Bryn Mawr College named her the first Katherine Houghton Hepburn Fellow for her groundbreaking contributions to civic engagement. She is internationally recognized for her pioneering work in detecting, diagnosing and designing human networks to solve a variety of complex organizational, business, economic and social problems. Stephenson has been featured in the media and press, including The Economist, The Financial Times , Forbes , The Guardian , The New Yorker and The Wall Street Journal. She has taught at several universities including Erasmus University's Rotterdam School of Management, Harvard's Graduate School of Design, Imperial College's Graduate School of Management, MIT's Sloan School of Management and UCLA's Anderson School of Management. Stephenson received a Ph.D. at Harvard University, an M.A. at the University of Utah, and a B.A. at Austin College. Seminar: Informal and Formal Networks, Social Capital and Connectors Session III Ray Wells is the president of Wellbeing Systems, Inc. (WSI), of Abington, PA, a training and consulting firm that uses a strength-based approach for designing leadership, team and organization development programs for its clients. This approach, which focuses on accentuating and building on "who we are when we are at our best," has helped the firm capture the energy and professional passion of the people it serves. Over the past 21 years, WSI has worked with nearly 100 non-profit, business, and education clients in organizations ranging from just a dozen people to the Fortune 500, from the smallest private schools to the Ivy League, from single-office non-profit agencies to the largest corporate health systems. Ray also serves as Program Director for the Eastern Montgomery County Chamber of Commerce’s Leadership Montgomery County and as residential and international faculty for the Foundation for the Advancement of International Medical Education and Research (FAIMER). FAIMER Institutes serve medical school faculty from developing countries in South America, Africa and Asia who have the potential to play a key role in improving medical education in their schools. Ray earned his Master of Arts from Bowling Green State University (OH) in adult development and his Ph.D. in applied social-psychology from Temple University. Seminar: Managing Employees Session II Nancie Zane, PhD. Dr. Zane, is a social psychologist and a partner with Praxis Consulting Group, a firm that provides organizational development services to not-for-profit organizations, employee-owned businesses, and other for-profit companies. For over twenty years, Dr.Zane has worked with organizations and associations, both staff and boards, to help them realign their organizational mission, culture, and structure through innovative visioning and strategic planning processes. She also works to develop diverse leadership teams and establish effective staff relationships. She also coaches mid- and upper-level managers in Wharton’s Advanced Management Program as well as in a range of Praxis client systems. In addition, she designs and implements organizational assessments as well as formative evaluations within educational, human services, and criminal justice settings. Dr. Zane is on the faculty of the Dynamics of Organization Program at the University of Pennsylvania where she teaches courses in organizational diagnosis and assessment and non-profit leadership. She has designed and delivered courses on organizational assessment, group dynamics, women and leadership, and intergroup relations as a visiting lecturer at the University of Haifa and the Golda Meir Center in Haifa, Israel. Her publication, Organizational Reflections: Parallel Processes at Work in a Dual Consultation (with Ken Smith, Ph.D.) won a Macgregor Award in 2001 from the Journal of Applied Behavioral Sciences. Her other publications focus on the creation of corporate commitment to organizational diversity as well as re-thinking student discipline in the context of school restructuring. She is currently working on research related to organizational founders and the dynamics of succession planning. Seminar: Group and System Dynamics: Top, Middles and Bottoms Session II
Jeannine L. Lopez, MA, the Vice President of Operations at Project H.O.M.E. in Philadelphia, PA, oversees operation of the residential and homeless programs. These programs include over 400 units of supportive housing, street outreach services for the City of Philadelphia, winter initiatives, the Occupational Services Department providing supported employment and education services, and three social enterprise businesses that employ formerly homeless individuals: The Back Home Café and Catering, Our Daily Threads Thrift Shop, and the H.O.M.E. Page Cafe. In addition, Jeannine oversees the Human Resources and Property Management Departments. Jeannine has worked with Project H.O.M.E. for over eight years and with homeless individuals and families for approximately fifteen years ranging from residential programs to street outreach to counseling services. Since 2001, she has been an integral part of Project H.O.M.E.’s Senior/ Executive Management Team and successfully co-led the organization’s strategic planning efforts during a period of tremendous organizational growth. Jeannine holds a Masters Degree in Psychology and is an alumni of the Bryn Mawr College’s Nonprofit Executive Leadership Institute. She is currently pursuing her Doctoral Degree in Social Work and Social Research also at Bryn Mawr College Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research. Catherine Ormerod, MSS, MLSP, is the founding Director of the Nonprofit Executive Leadership Institute at Bryn Mawr College Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research. She has over 25 years experience working in the nonprofit and public policy arenas. She has served in senior leadership positions at WOMENS WAY 25 and Living Beyond Breast Cancer where she specialized in program and fund development as well as communication and advocacy. In addition, she ran a thriving nonprofit consulting business, working with national and regional nonprofit organizations. Prior to making the shift to the nonprofit sector, Ms. Ormerod was a reporter and public relations professional. In 1992 she served as Press Secretary for the Lynn Yeakel for US Senate Campaign. She was a lecturer in the social policy sequence at the University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy and Practice from 2002-2006. Currently she serves on the Board of Directors of the Center for Responsible Funding, the Board of Advisors of Laurel House in Montgomery County (PA) and was named to Community Grantmaking Committee of Bread & Roses Community Fund in Philadelphia, PA. She is a founder of the Montgomery County (PA) Women’s Conference, and holds a Masters in Social Services and Law and Social Policy from Bryn Mawr College Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research. Judith Katz, EdD. see biographical sketch above. Winnie Lanoix, PhD. Dr. Winnie Lanoix is a Senior Vice President and Management Consultant for Right Management Company. Dr. Lanoix has over 25 years experience in the field of human behavior seeking to enhance individual and organizational performance as a consultant, human resource professional, leadership coach and counseling psychologist. Dr. Lanoix’s areas of expertise include executive coaching and leadership development and organizational effectiveness. She has also spent over l0 years in various operations functions including sales, marketing, as well as served as executive director of an international company working with subsidiaries in 30 different countries. Dr. Lanoix has experience managing a multicultural and global staff working in several facilities and continents. Her past experience also includes over 10 years as Director of Organizational Development and Training Departments, and as Vice President of Executive Education. Dr. Lanoix provided consulting in the areas of executive coaching, leadership development, strategic visioning, building team effectiveness, competency assessments, change management, management evelopment, women’s leadership, mentoring and career development, as well as serving as a project manager for global programs. Robin Rodin, MEd, an Executive Coach with Right Management, is a strategic, results oriented leader with over 25 years of progressive and successful human resources experience that she brings to her Executive Coaching clients. Among her areas of expertise are talent management, succession planning, organizational culture change and effective partnering strategies. In the corporate world she was responsible for directing the development and implementation of leadership development strategies, processes and initiatives to attract and retain top talent and improve the communication among executive teams. She developed a mentoring program with the School District of Philadelphia. She has a Master’s in Education, Guidance and Counseling from West Chester University; is a graduate of Advanced Program in Organizational Development from Columbia University and is a frequent presenter at professional conferences. Dorothy Stubblebine, an Executive Coach with Right Management, has over 25 years of experience working in companies specializing in organizational change, human resource issues and organizational quality improvement. She has worked with nonprofit boards of directors and currently working with the New Jersey Chapter of the American Red Cross. Her areas of expertise include succession planning, facilitation of strategic plans and the Balanced Scorecard, leadership development, and human resource management. Stubblebine has been particularly effective working with leaders who need to change behavior is a short time frame, and who are focused on change management initiatives. Other areas of expertise include helping leaders be more aware of their impact their leadership style has on staff, and helping executives thrive in new positions and make job transitions. She is on the Business Advisory Board for Business College of Rowan University, a founder of the Camden Courier Post’s Business Advisory Board. In addition she travels across the country speaking on organizational and human resource issues. A graduate of Rowan University, she has completed Masters level work at Widener University. Patreece Thompson, MD. Dr. Thompson is the principal of Treece Consulting, LLC that provides customized trainings, presentations and coaching interventions to individuals, groups and teams to improve work relationships, communication and achieve organizational or departmental goals. Previously, she was the Director of Client Services with Career Concepts, Inc. for nine years delivering services to clients in diverse industries including: manufacturing, higher education, ealthcare, and insurance. She has created and delivered trainings in performance management, communicating through conflict, building high performance teams, motivation, and time management among others. She has also assisted departments with interventions as they go through change or restructuring. Dr. Thompson has coached leaders including vice presidents, physicians, health personnel and individuals in the non-profit sector. Dr. Thompson uses a variety of assessment and feedback tools including MBTI, Benchmarks, and Strategic Leadership (Management Research Group), Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument. She is a member of the following organizations: International Coaches Federation and Philadelphia Area Coaches Alliance, Association for Psychological Type, Positive Change Core (secretary), American College of Physician Executives, and the Pennsylvania Medical Society. Dr. Thompson is a graduate of Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and practiced psychiatry for ten years in the community mental health sector before transitioning into the corporate arena. |
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