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Nonprofit Executive Leadership Institute Faculty Listed Alphabetically Kristine Alvarez, MBA, is the Manager of Advisory Services at the Nonprofit Finance Fund. (NFF) She 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. 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. Juliet J. Goodfriend
Garvester (Gar) Kelley, MBA, MDiv., Vice President, Mid-Atlantic Region, Nonprofit Finance Fund (NFF) 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. Ann W. Martin, Ed.D. is a Senior Consultant with Praxis and a part-time faculty member at The Norwegian University of Science and Technology. She has taught and facilitated dialogue, conflict resolution, and organizational development using knowledge of these fields as a resource whether a client organization’s needs are for better communication, strategic planning, leadership development, or the productive use of conflict. The common approach in all of her work is to include participants in defining and shaping the changes needed for improvement. Ann was a senior extension faculty member at Cornell University’s School Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR) for 19 years, an experience that provided a grounding in labor-management cooperation and the systems approach to organizational development. In addition to conflict and organizational change work, she taught and led interest-based negotiation and problem-solving for most of those years. Ann’s clients include schools, both public and collegiate, manufacturing, and the service sector. A recent client is the Erie County Association of School Boards, where she led a participatory research project to propose avenues for collaboration to improve education for all students in the City of Buffalo and the 28 surrounding school districts. Other clients have been the Unified Court System of New York, Planned Parenthood of New York City, the Mead Paper Company and the UPIU, the Ryder Corporation, the New York City Public Schools, and the AAUP and Rutgers University. Ann has a BA from Middlebury College, an MAT from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, an MILR from the Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations, and an Ed.D. in Adult and Organizational Learning from Teachers College, Columbia University. 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. 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, the International Review of Women and Leadership, and in the volumes Addressing Cultural Issues in Organizations: Beyond the Corporate Context, The Handbook of Workplace Diversity, and most recently, Gender, Race, and Ethnicity in the Workplace. Dr. Proudford was recently named a Fulbright Senior Specialist Candidate. Ann Schmieg, MBA, MSS, MLSP, 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. 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. Ray Wells, Phd 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, Session II: Managerial Leadership: Delegating for Development
Dr. Zane is a member of the faculty of the Dynamics of Organization Program at the University of Pennsylvania where she co-teaches courses in organizational diagnosis and assessment and nonprofit 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 co-authored publication with Kenwyn Smith, Ph.D, Organizational Reflections: Parallel Processes at Work in a Dual Consultation 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 received a B.S. from Cornell University in criminal justice and a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania with a concentration in social psychology. Co-facilitated with Karen Proudford
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