Gary was asked to create a recruiting and admissions office for a private high school where he taught because he was “good with people.” Hard work paid off and they were successful and enrollment grew.

A new president joined the school and he asked if Gary could build a development office because Gary was “good with people.” Again, hard work paid off, they were very successful and before he knew it Gary was hooked and on his way to becoming a development professional.

One thing Gary has learned for sure; being “good with people” is about the least important attribute of an effective development professional.

Since those early days Gary has held leadership roles in nonprofits ranging from department head to directorships to the executive level. Including serving as Executive Directer of the Central Arizona College Foundation and as Vice President for Institutional Advancement at St. Gregory’s University – a wonderful Catholic university in Oklahoma and founded GPB Associates LLC in 2007.

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:

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

Following a career in business administration and sales, Deborah earned her masters and doctorate degrees in anthropology from the University of California at Berkeley. To learn more about group alchemy and to receive a complimentary copy of Meeting Alchemy:™ Five Proven Steps to More Productive Meetings go to http://www.groupalchemy.net.

Our mission is to help groups create ways of working together that can change the world.
We are committed to a world where everyone can excel at what they do; contribute to something meaningful, grow as individuals and enjoy the sense of belonging that comes from working on something meaningful with a group of people who share their values.

Kim Clark’s expertise in the development of business plans and strategy implementation was acquired as she held marketing and sales positions within the corporate sector at Fortune 100 companies. During her tenure there, she learned to create and implement strategic plans; participate in branding campaigns for products that became market leaders; forge relationships with decision-makers and key strategic partners; build a strong customer base; and participate in the successful launch of several products that became market leaders. Kim has twice received awards for outstanding sales and leadership ability.

Additionally, Kim develops and conducts workshops in business plan writing, the fundamentals of strategic plan development and sales skills training.

Kim maintains a strong commitment to service and she has contributed her time and energy to several nonprofit executive boards, serving in director and officer roles.

Kim holds a B.A. in Psychology from Simmons College and she lives in Boston.

Kari also served as Executive Director of the President’s Council on Service and Civic Participation, a presidential commission to support and expand volunteer service throughout the country and around the world. She is an avid volunteer and currently serves as Chair of the Board of Mobilize.org, is on the board of Repair the World and an adviser to the new start-up, Fuse Corps. She now resides with her family in Houston, TX.

Bill’s successful trainings have included two year, six month, weekend, and daylong training groups that focused upon diversity issues, relationship and team building, conflict resolution skills, leadership development, and participation in decision-making and governance.

He has facilitated diverse groups facing issues ranging from racial tensions, decision making power, sexism, community and cultural traumas, AIDS, economic distress, socio-economic class, ageism, to relationship issues and conflicts.

He has successfully facilitated diversity and conflict facilitation and trainings to various organizations; small and large groups of board and staff in sensitive explorations of marginalization; work with groups of seniors with diverse consciousness states and conflict; a large consortium of domestic violence, mental health, legal services, and veteran groups in their burgeoning partnership; a city open forum on youth issues with youth activists, rap artists, police, re-entry strategists, city Mayor, and school principals and teachers; a large group of mental health experts exploring post earthquake trauma issues in China; and subtle connection and communication training to family members and medical staff serving patients in minimally communicative, comatose, and persistent vegetative states.

She also teaches, speaks, and writes regularly on data-driven decision-making for strategy, assessment, communications, and for managing change. She has been a regular guest speaker on utilizing survey and focus group research for community and stakeholder strategy at both the Harvard Business School and the Yale School of Management. She holds degrees in Demography and Population Studies from the University of Illinois and Brown University.

Demographic Perspectives works with each client to approach problems with a customized data-driven process, stressing a full strategic outline. Participants in Rena’s previous webinar on “Data-Driven Decision-Making for Nonprofits” will recognize this process: articulation of the problem and goals, data gathering and analysis, project communication and public outreach, development of planning steps, project implementation, post-project evaluation and assessment.

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.

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.

With full service offices in key cities from coast to coast and experienced staff dedicated to providing responsive, accurate, cost-effective service, NCR has the resources and expertise to handle your multi-state registration and compliance needs while providing the kind of personalized service usually only found in smaller service providers.

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.

Sue Rescigno spent the early years of her professional career in development at prestigious educational institutions such as Illinois Institute of Technology and St. Xavier University. During her tenure at IIT, she won an award from CASE for Sustained Performance in the Annual Fund. Sue’s degree is in Mass Communications from St. Xavier University and is a Certified Mailpiece Quality Control Specialist. She is also currently on the Postal and Government Affairs Committee of the Mailing and Fulfillment Association (MFSA).

Prior to joining Rescigno’s, Ron Rescigno 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 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.

Rescigno’s Marketing Connections is an American small business that provides direct and social media marketing services for non-profits and direct marketing agencies. From humble garage beginnings as Rescigno’s Rapid Mailing Service in 1992, when they worked from their dining room table addressing envelopes by hand, Rescigno’s is now based in Bridgeview, Il —where computers, postal software, high-speed printers, and tabbing, stamping, and folding machines have allowed them to expand their offerings and grow their customer base. Rescigno’s has been a certified mailing expert since 1992, and over the past 19 years have become the one-stop shop for all things marketing. Whether it’s consulting, social media solutions, or mailing campaigns, the team at Rescigno’s Marketing Connections works to solve direct marketing challenges and provide results. As “thought-leaders” of a business that specializes in personalized communications, they believe in maintaining personal relationships with their customers.