Profile
Years in leadership and executive roles at the Amherst H. Wilder Foundation, the Greater Boston YMCA and Massachusetts Half-Way Houses, Inc., have inspired a consulting practice. Informed by experience and motivated by a desire to be of practical service to executives, Boards and managers. I come with a deep appreciation for the role of program developer, service operator and strategic leader of health and human service programs. I do my best work when your organization needs change: a bold vision, a sharper strategy, better financial performance and better outcomes.
Four areas form the core of my service:
- Strategy-driven business planning
- Quality improvement
- Restructuring
- Increasing the executives impact on critical business objectives
Having served in leadership during times of tremendous growth and in no less than 3 previous economic downturns, make me a good match for organizations that need a seasoned executive to get through crisis, turn around, ramping up of new services, mergers and yes, even going out of business.
I have a solid working knowledge of program design, best practices, management, finance and policy issues in the following areas:
- Capacity Building: management support services including consulting, training, publishing, and leadership development
- Children’s Mental Health: outpatient & residential
- Child Care: home and center-based
- Civic Engagement: through new philanthropic models
- Community Services to the Elderly: home care, adult day, meals on wheels, homemaker
- Corrections: halfway houses and re-entry services
- Education Reform: instructional reforms, family services and establishing neighborhood schools as a hub of community life
- Employment Services: especially those focused on the people who are the hardest to engage and retain in the workforce
- Housing: affordable, permanent housing for single adults, families and the elderly
- Juvenile Justice: community-based treatment and evidence-based practices
- School-based Services: especially those services and programs serving children with behavioral issues
- Youth Development: Community-based services in very low-income neighborhoods
When an organization needs to get better results while reducing costs they’ll want a consultant who can:
- Addresses current challenges by harnessing the organizations strengths
- Knows and uses best practices
- Invigorates and engages board members, staff and donors
- Creates a clear strategy-driven, bottom-line operating plan for the future
I also serve on the Board of Directors and the development committee for the Citizens League and am an enthusiastic participant in one of the nation’s leading non-partisan, citizen-driven, policy development, membership organizations. I also serve on the Board of GTS. GTS is a designer and host of educational events and services for the public and nonprofit sector. And of course, like sensible people everywhere, I am a member of AAA.
