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Guide organizations from $800,000 to $5 million in revenue into needed strategic change while creating new revenue streams, using core professional background in counseling, education, ministry, and twenty years of business management experience.

• Played needed transition role, stabilizing programs and staff after a long-term Executive Director exited the organization• Initiated first of its kind, online parent training, increasing family attendance at introduction workshops by 48%, and increasing number of families trained by 58%• Increased adoption referrals from counties by 114%• Implemented entirely new website targeted to finding new families

• Led the largest independent non-profit in Marin serving seniors and persons with disabilities• Managed 12 transportation, multicultural, senior center, and nutritional programs, with a 93 person staff, including a commercial kitchen providing over 450 meals per day• Implemented critical upgrades to telephone, computer, and fundraising systems, while managing two 25,000 sq. foot facilities• Initiated contact with 20,000 senior households in Marin County , via the publication: Whistlestop Express, now found in the Pacific Sun• Completed first ever agency-wide strategic planning process• Led agency into profitability (exceeded $5 million in revenue) despite 7 previous years of deficits totaling $1.7 million

• Ended four years of crippling deficits increasing income 28% from 2002-04 at this regional in-home respite care organization assisting families with a disabled loved one, mostly children• Secured new contracts to increase revenue 300% over 5 years to $3 million – providing ongoing support to over 1,200 families in 7 counties• Created a new Spanish speaking in-home care program serving over 200 families• Engineered merger to create a statewide respite care organization• Supervised successful statewide political campaign as President of the California Respite Association that increased ongoing agency revenue by 8.7%• Rebuilt entire fiscal system to greatly increase accountability and efficiency• Increased respite and administrative staff from 136 to 406 employees• Developed a dispirited and bureaucratic administrative staff into an energized, skilled, multicultural, and entrepreneurial, team

• Held staff minister, senior minister, consultant, retreat leader, counselor, and teacher positions giving over 200 public speaking presentations, 50 workshops, 12 retreats, and 25 classes• Assisted 12 non-profit organizations with strategic planning, fundraising, resolution of management issues, leadership development, & organizational renewal programs• Created an ongoing spiritual practice support program entitled: Making Honey In the Heart, which assisted beginners to initiate and grow their daily spiritual practices, within a community of supportive peers• Served as Interim Senior Minister at Unity Palo Alto Church managing 20 person staff, increasing cash reserves from $25,000 to $250,000 in one year, and cutting expenses by 18%