John has a solid background in the telecommunications industry. He gained operational experience at COO at Onsite Access, Executive VP at E-Link Communications, AT&T as Regional VP; TCG as VP Engineering and Product Management; and Time Warner Telecom as VP/GM Northern California.
Having grown up in the telecom industry, he had an appreciation of telecom cost management: a company needs to be the low cost provider, not the low priced provider. Margins are essential to the success of any business or non profit organization.
Active in SF Bay Area Business Community John is on the Borad of Directors of the Association for Corporate Growth (ACG), where he helps bring private equity, investment banking and operating companies together for their mutual benefit. He also works with several Private Equity firms to help their portfolio companies improve profitability and value.
As Managing Director, John is able to marshal ERA Bay Area and U.S. resources to quickly address client needs. As a result, he has produced millions of dollars in savings for Bay Area clients.
John has an MBA in Management, Finance and Marketing.

Our collective knowledge and proprietary E-SCAN (Strategy-Costs-Alignment-Numbers) go to work and keep on working for you. Our clients call it their “Continuous Value Improvement Cycle.” We call it common sense that becomes common practice.

You will gain perspective from our Advisors, clarity from our technical Analysts, and access to relationships and resources for business growth through our extensive network of Advocates.

Mr. Gross has been actively involved in the DC metro area since 1974. Prior to joining ERA, he has held senior financial and operating positions with the International Association of Chiefs of Police, Cresap McCormick and Paget, Inc., MCI, AOL, DrFirst, and several other telecommunications and healthcare related entities. He has served as the Entrepreneur in Residence at the Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship and as an Adjunct Professor at the Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland. He has served on the Board of Directors of several companies, including InforMedix, a public healthcare technology company.

Mr. Gross earned his BA and MPA degrees from Syracuse University and received the Certified Internal Auditor and Certified Public Accountant designations earlier in his career.

As a Ph.D. in Industrial-Organizational Psychology from the Illinois Institute of Technology, award-winning professor, and internationally recognized speaker, his knowledge of human behavior in the workplace is extraordinary in the fields of hiring, management consulting, and leadership coaching.

When he isn’t bringing business results and happiness to the lives of leaders and their teams, he’s bringing happiness to his own life by playing with his two young children, chopping vegetables for his beautiful wife, making a mess in their New Jersey home, and finding piece of mind practicing yoga.

You could call us Industrial-Organizational Psychologists, Leadership Consultants, Statisticians, Researchers, Effectiveness Coaches, Organizational Assessors, Hiring Specialists, Motivational Speakers and on and on. It just makes more sense to say that we are the experts of crafting people solutions for lasting results.

We set leaders free. We help missions come to life.

Tom started to work with advocacy groups when he was a teenager, and later on the national level to make higher education accessible to people with disabilities.

After college he moved to the United States where he started working as an accessibility consultant and later started his own company.

While working with thousands of people in the United States, Tom has also worked with developing countries. One of his biggest achievements was training a group of blind people in Southeast Asia to become the first accessibility experts in their own countries.

Currently Tom is building a business program at the Hadley School for the Blind to help blind entrepreneurs to realize their dream of independence.

Anthony’s deep interest in the sector drew him to New York City’s Robin Hood Foundation, where served as Chief Financial Officer and Director of Management Assistance. There he helped channel financial resources, technical assistance and other services to community-based nonprofits. The satisfying experience of helping community entrepreneurs build institutions under their ideas led him to serve in a variety of management service organizations from LA’s Center for Nonprofit Management, to Oakland’s National Community Development Institute. Love for this type of service also led him to create his own nonprofit consulting firm, Mananson Consulting, in 1992.

As the former Associate Director of the Greenlining Institute, Anthony managed the finance function while creating corporate/community partnerships to implement a number of community-based economic development and technology projects.

Mr. Reese served as Associate Director to the National Community Development Institute (NCDI), an intermediary created to provide culturally-based capacity building services to communities of color. He helped build NCDI’s fiscal and administrative systems, and provided facilitation, training, coaching and implementation support to community boards and neighborhood collaboratives engaged in comprehensive community change initiatives.

Most recently Anthony served as the Principal Financial Analyst of the California chapter of The Nature Conservancy, where he was responsible for developing and monitoring a $30m annual budget, implementing automated financial systems, and providing advanced financial modeling and analytics to the chapter board and executive staff.

Prior to joining Rescigno’s, Ron spent 23 years in private high school education as both a teacher and administrator. He holds a BA in English from Lewis College and an MA in Educational Administration from Governors State University. Ron is responsible for new sales, research and copy-writing of materials for the annual fund, campaign material and various in-house marketing materials such as email marketing.

Ron and Sue Rescigno are very active in their community. They were recently honored by the Children’s Museum in Oak Lawn with Soaring Spirit awards because of their longstanding involvement in the museum. Sue also sat on the board of Hope Children’s Hospital in Oak Lawn for 10 years and served for two years on the Christ Hospital development committee. Ron has been the vice president of the Children’s Museum in Oak Lawn for the last [6] years and recently completed a nine-year tenure on the board of St. Linus Grammar School.

Marc Baizman has been involved with nonprofits and technology for the past ten years. He was the co-chair for the Young Nonprofit Professional’s Network – Boston chapter from 2010-2011 and the founder of the Boston Nonprofit Salesforce User Group in 2008. Up until the end of 2009, Marc was Technology Director at Root Cause, a nonprofit in Cambridge, MA that helps social innovators and educates social impact investors. As the first and only technology staff person, he was responsible for all things tech, from debugging network cables to disaster recovery planning. Before joining Root Cause, Marc was working at NPower as a Senior Project Manager in Consulting Services, specializing in helping nonprofits customize Salesforce.com and building Drupal-based websites. Marc has an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the Rochester Institute of Technology and a TESOL Certificate from Columbia Teacher’s College in New York City. He lives in Boston with his wonderful wife, Rachel, and their terrific cat, Hadley.

My Computer Guy was formed in 2009 when the economic downturn hit Marc’s nonprofit organization, and he couldn’t remain a full-time staff person. He already had a number of relationships with nonprofits in the greater New York and New England regions, and decided to switch to full-time consulting, specializing in cloud-based technologies like Google Apps, Salesforce.com, Box.com, and others. Since 2010, My Computer Guy has helped 28 different nonprofit organizations with their technology systems.

Claudette is an experienced Myers-Briggs Type Indicator practitioner and facilitates individual development and team building sessions using the instrument. Author of the book Embrace Your Brilliance: How to Align Yourself with Your Unique Potential and co-author of the book A Guide to Getting It: A Clear, Compelling Vision, her articles have been published in hundreds of online and print publications.

Prior to launching her coaching and consulting company MetaVoice, Inc. in 2000, Claudette worked in the public and private sectors, specializing in leadership and program development. She holds a Masters of Social Work from the University of Michigan, a professional coaching certification from the Coaches Training Institute, and has completed additional training in organizational development and relationship systems coaching.

I offer conflict coaching and training, and work with organizations to resolve ongoing conflicts. I have a three phase training process I use to help individuals and organizations learn how address conflict in a way that produces positive results. I also specialize in conflict, leadership and career assessments, and their application for resolving conflicts and identifying strengths in individuals and teams.

Comments like these about Michael Wilkinson are worth noting, especially when coming from Len Roberts, CEO RadioShack, and Brian Gallagher, CEO United Way Worldwide. Michael is the Founder and Managing Director of Leadership Strategies – The Facilitation Company, the largest facilitation training company in the U.S. He has authored several facilitation books, including the bestseller, The Secrets of Facilitation, and The Secrets of Facilitation 2nd Edition.

Demographic Perspectives helps non-profit and higher education organizations solve problems with a true data-driven process, stressing a full strategic outline from articulation of the problem and goals, to data gathering, to a post-project assessment of how well the strategy worked.

We train and mentor facilitators, leaders and executive teams that want to create and support the processes with which groups, organizations and communities can define and achieve their goals and realize their dreams. Group mentorship, as we have developed it, is an ongoing, facilitative accompaniment of an organizational or community team that wants to increase its effectiveness through a dynamic and integral process of group, personal and professional development. We creatively combine the most effective methods of face-to-face group mentoring and facilitation, with the most modern technologies of Internet, intranet and virtual online mentoring.

We have ample experience with many different organizational and ethnic cultures and appreciate the uniqueness of every client, approaching each one’s needs with a systemic and holistic perspective, backed by expertise in facilitation of organizational and community development and change. Our facilitators are accredited by and/or members of the International Association of Facilitators (IAF) and are active in its global leadership.

Amauta International can help your organization or community to prepare its own leaders and internal facilitators with the necessary competencies for effective intervention in:

- change management
- team building,
- process restructuring,
- crisis intervention,
- organizational cultural transformation,
- community building,
- conflict resolution,
- transformational leadership,
- competency development.

Finally, we provide continuity through effective follow-up monitoring sessions and virtual support (virtual conferences, WBT, bibliographic support, e-lists, etc.). Our approach of training and mentoring your own in-house talent, is not only a more effective way to facilitate organizational transformation, but also much more economical than contracting outside trainers and facilitators. Let us show you how a program of facilitator mentorship can increase the productivity and success of your organization.

Rick received his Ph.D. in instructional design from Syracuse University and held various management positions in several international organizations before co-founding Brownfield and Lent in 1991.

Bernard Mohr is cofounder of Innovation Partners International, a professional services firm helping organizations, networks and alliances deal with ever increasing complexity and the demands for accelerated change. As a designer, action researcher and thinking partner, Bernard supports clients within healthcare, manufacturing, retail, pharmaceuticals, education and government in creating more flexible and effective work systems. Recent books include Essentials of Appreciative Inquiry: A Roadmap for Creating Positive Futures (Pegasus Communications, 2002); The Appreciative Inquiry Summit, (Berrett-Koehler, 2003); and Appreciative Inquiry: Change at the Speed of Imagination, Pfeiffer 2011). His approach to organizational innovation draws on Design Thinking, Complexity Science and the Applied Behavioral Sciences.

Innovation Partners International expands your ability to create economic and social prosperity…. both now and within a shifting world. We co-create work systems that work well, are highly adaptive and are good to live in.

We achieve better results faster because our work engages relevant stakeholders in the design and innovation process , our work is strength based and it is integrated – addressing the IT, service delivery and space domains of your enterprise.

Neil Samuels’ twenty-three years of consulting and coaching experience span six continents and organizations ranging from Cruise Lines, Architecture, R&D, and Oil Exploration, to the US Geological Survey, the Illinois Counseling Association, and the Naperville School District. His work builds on a foundation of strengths and Appreciative Inquiry to engage entire organizations in fundamentally changing their conversations to bring about lasting change. He has worked successfully with leaders at all levels and is a respected coach, mentor, and innovative thinker. Neil has demonstrated value in helping senior leaders navigate complex, large-scale change.

Neil has an advanced degree in organization development from Pepperdine University where he served as adjunct faculty in the Graziadio School of Business and Management. He has published in the US and UK in The OD Practitioner, Managing Schools Today, and the AI Practitioner, and has presented his work at The Academy of Management and The International Conference on Appreciative Inquiry. Neil co-authored a book published in 2009 titled; ‘Brilliant: The Heathside Story: A Case Study of Whole System Transformation using Appreciative Inquiry in a School.”

Clients often say that what makes Profound Conversations, Inc. unique is the conversations we engage them in, the questions we pose, and the way we lead and facilitate inquiry – which in turn leads to significantly different, positive, and energizing outcomes.

Kirsten Bullock, CFRE, MBA is an author and nonprofit coach who works with entrepreneurial nonprofit leaders to help them involve more people in their organizations and raise the money they need. Since 1995, Kirsten has worked with health care organizations, social service providers, national and local ministries, and international membership associations. Kirsten holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Social Work and a Master’s of Business Administration.

Kirsten is currently serving as president of the Association for Fundraising Professionals Greater Louisville Chapter. She is an AFP Master Trainer, compiles Kirsten’s Fundraising Headlines Blog, and is the author of Simple Steps to Growing Your Donors and the Fundraising Jump Start Home Study System. When not working to equip and empower people in the nonprofit sector, Kirsten sculpts, is attempting to learn to speak Danish and enjoys living in the Highlands in Louisville, Kentucky with her husband Rob.

Bullock Consulting, Inc. was launched in 2008 with the goal of helping small and mid-sized nonprofits learn and adopt the strategies used by large organizations in a way that was authentic and achievable. This is accomplished primarily through coaching and training programs.

Claudette Rowley, MSW, CPCC is a coach, consultant and author – and expert in helping individuals and organizations resolve internal and external conflict. She consults and coaches internationally, helping professionals, corporations and non-profits resolve and prevent conflicts, and offers training on to manage conflict effectively.

Claudette is an experienced Myers-Briggs Type Indicator practitioner and facilitates individual development and team building sessions using the instrument. Author of the book Embrace Your Brilliance: How to Align Yourself with Your Unique Potential and co-author of the book A Guide to Getting It: A Clear, Compelling Vision, her articles have been published in hundreds of online and print publications.

Prior to launching her coaching and consulting company MetaVoice, Inc. in 2000, Claudette worked in the public and private sectors, specializing in leadership and program development. She holds a Masters of Social Work from the University of Michigan, a professional coaching certification from the Coaches Training Institute, and has completed additional training in organizational development and relationship systems coaching.

MetaVoice is a coaching and consulting company helping individuals and organizations resolve internal and external conflicts. When individuals and organizations understand the conflicts that hold them back, and chart a course for resolving them, they move into alignment for grow, evolution and more success.

I offer conflict coaching and training, and work with organizations to resolve ongoing conflicts. I have a three phase training process I use to help individuals and organizations learn how address conflict in a way that produces positive results. I also specialize in conflict, leadership and career assessments, and their application for resolving conflicts and identifying strengths in individuals and teams.

Build the skills of leaders at all levels to develop their employees by:
►Using metrics to assess and measure their talent.
►Acquiring real-world skills to provide non–confrontational, impactful and motivating feedback.
►Effectively managing employee performance, issues, disruptive behaviors and manage resulting performance
conversations.

Train all-employee audiences on self-assessment, giving, receiving and seeking out feedback. This is the compliment session to the leader’s program.

Modernize performance management (PM) practices, forms and processes. Create a simple process that works to increase the amount and quality of performance conversations between managers and employees. Keep the best parts of your PM process and minimize non-essential paperwork and low-value activities.

Program Delivery: Programs are offered across the globe, in-person, through the web and by phone. Train the trainer and program licensing are available to larger firms wanting to deliver in-house training. Learn more at http://www.employeeperformancesolutions.com/

Marc Baizman has been involved with nonprofits and technology for the past ten years. He was the co-chair for the Young Nonprofit Professional’s Network – Boston chapter from 2010-2011 and the founder of the Boston Nonprofit Salesforce User Group in 2008. Up until the end of 2009, Marc was Technology Director at Root Cause, a nonprofit in Cambridge, MA that helps social innovators and educates social impact investors. As the first and only technology staff person, he was responsible for all things tech, from debugging network cables to disaster recovery planning. Before joining Root Cause, Marc was working at NPower as a Senior Project Manager in Consulting Services, specializing in helping nonprofits customize Salesforce.com and building Drupal-based websites. Marc has an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the Rochester Institute of Technology and a TESOL Certificate from Columbia Teacher’s College in New York City. He lives in Boston with his wonderful wife, Rachel, and their terrific cat, Hadley.

My Computer Guy was formed in 2009 when the economic downturn hit Marc’s nonprofit organization, and he couldn’t remain a full-time staff person. He already had a number of relationships with nonprofits in the greater New York and New England regions, and decided to switch to full-time consulting, specializing in cloud-based technologies like Google Apps, Salesforce.com, Box.com, and others. Since 2010, My Computer Guy has helped 28 different nonprofit organizations with their technology systems.

Bob Greene has over 16 years experience serving as a trusted “thinking partner” who helps organizational leaders reframe issues and identify solutions. He works with emerging and established leaders to identify how to lead change; foster a team-oriented culture; address organizational causes of conflict; and develop their self-awareness, cultural competence, and effectiveness. With warmth and humor, Bob asks pertinent and provocative questions that help surface assumptions, clarify values, and identify concrete action steps. / Bob has worked with large and small clients locally and nationally in the nonprofit, government, and private sectors. He created the Nonprofit Leadership Institute at Montgomery College (Maryland) and served on the selection committee of the Washington Post Award for Excellence in Nonprofit Management. Bob has published articles and presented workshops on nonprofit issues, diversity and inclusion, organization development, and other topics.

Rick Lent has spent the last 25 years studying effective structures for different meetings and applying them in his work facilitating meetings around the world with non-profit, NGO, and community organizations as well as businesses of all sizes. He provides design and facilitation services, and also coaches leaders on how to improve their own meetings using his techniques. He is committed to helping leaders everywhere do a better, easier job of building new ideas and aligning the actions of the participants in their meetings – no matter how difficult the subject. Two publications will be released later this year on this work: Meeting for Results Tool Kit, and Naked Meetings:Using Unseen Structures to Achieve Results.

Meeting for Results was established as a dedicated service of Brownfield & Lent to help leaders of nonprofit and other organizations run more effective meetings. Our services include consulting, workshops and presentations. Our approach is described on www.meetingforresults.com. We also provide stories of meeting successes and challenges on the Meeting for Results blog. An e-book designed to help leaders run more effective meetings will be released later this spring: Meeting for Results Tool Kit: Make Your Meetings Work. By the end of this year Rick will also publish Naked Meetings: Using Unseen Structures to Achieve Results – A Handbook for Leaders.

Meeting for Results is based in Massachusetts. Rick Lent works with nonprofit organizations throughout the Northeast and elsewhere.