As the President of K2 Consulting Group, a hands-on consulting firm specializing in fundraising, marketing, and board development for nonprofits, I have over 30 years of experience in helping forward-thinking leaders achieve their organization's philanthropic potential. My expertise is ideal for organizations facing big lifts, steep ramps, short timelines, and ambiguous ambitions. By employing individualized, creative approaches I help non profits identify untapped and under-explored opportunities for increasing philanthropic income and volunteer engagement surpassing their expectations. By seeing our client's potential from another point of view we enable them to achieve their goals and vision, including bringing start ups to market, engineering organizational turnarounds and creating then executing visions for growth. With our counsel, they attract high profile boards, orchestrate major capital and marketing campaigns and build strong staff teams. Serving in senior executive positions with 85MM+ organizations and a higher education institution, I have led all facets of external relations and advancement and have launched, provided counsel, and executed capital campaigns ranging from $10M to $65M for various sectors, including education, human services, performing arts and professional associations. I've built and strengthened boards with senior civic leaders and professionals, and fostered an environment of high impact governance. Raised with an awareness of social and economic justice, community and political involvement — philanthropy was a natural career choice for me. I credit my Pre-K through high school study of Spanish, strengthened by a year of university study abroad, to a dual-language proficiency as an adult. Complimenting my career, I have enjoyed traveling to 70 countries to explore other cultures and natural habitats.