Nonprofit Executive Leadership Institute Faculty

Session I
Session I Seminar Descriptions

Leadership Preferences and Myers Briggs

Judith Katz, EdD.

Dr. Judith Kapustin Katz is a licensed psychologist with more than 20 year’s 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 and outplacement counseling, change management, and coaching to enhance effectiveness. Dr. Katz is currently Educational Consultant at Temple University School of Medicine and a core faculty member with ELAM (Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine). Her experiences in career development also include: ten years in the outplacement industry, 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; Founder and Director of Options (for Women), a community based career management service. 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 development methodologies including the MBTI and Benchmarks 360 and in Cognitive Behavior Therapy.

The Campaign Model for Change

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.

Rhetoric and Public Speaking

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.

Linking Money to Mission

Garvester (Gar) Kelley, MBA, MDiv., Vice President, Mid-Atlantic Region, Nonprofit Finance Fund (NFF)
Garvester (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.

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.