Strategic Planning and Implementatio
- Deep expertise in leading strategic planning process for national and local organizations
- Lead Sr. Executive who oversaw the city wide planning process for $106.4M in city services
- Increased engagement of People of Color by 40%
- Lead National Diversity Equity and Inclusion efforts that impacted over $1.6M students
Development and Grants Managemen
- Managed over $15 million in grants for local and national initiatives that provided equity to communities
- Raised over $8 million in local government grants
- Increased fee for services contributions for school district by over $2.7M
- Grew individual donor contributions by 44% through targeted marketing, strategic campaigns and research on donor base
Board Support and Developmen
- Increased Board Diversity composition by 50%
- Increased Board engagement by 30%
- Increased Board attendance to 98%
- Lead the development and adoption of Board Diversity, Equity and Inclusion statement, practices, and score card
Budget Managemen
- Extensive background in developing and monitoring program and organizational budgets
- Reduced total expenses 25% through continuous improvement initiatives and cost containment while operating more efficiently, strengthening programs and engaging employees
- Develop a services cost allocation model that lead to targeted marketing campaign that made over $600K
- 20% increase in contracts spent with Women and Minority owned vendors
- 32% increase of companies invests in with DEI policies & practices in place
Organizational Development and Capacity Building
- Increased retention of People of Color by 72%
- Increased mobility and movement of people of Color within the organization by 32%
- Increased staff inclusivity index by 20% in two years
- Aligned employees’ performance with organizational goals and fostered teambuilding, and improved communications, which lead to reducing turnover from 50% to 12%.
Impact
- Achieved capital improvement goals and led development of several programs including Leaders-in-Training Program and various outdoor sports, ranch and adult expedition programs.
- Piloted and expanded a profitable education program for youth at-risk, middle and high school students.
- Expanded children’s literacy program to 18 school districts in 4 states by developing a Spanish intervention literacy program
- Designed and launched training modules for all your services workers within the Austin Parks and Recreation Department, that currently trains over 500 staff yearly
