Kay Sterner, Mais, Acc Email & Phone Number

Seattle, Wa, Us

Seattle, Washington, United States

I coach established and emerging leaders inside top US enterprizes to sharpen their leadership skills, take calculated risks, strengthen their boundaries, and create a manageable work-life balance.

Leadership coaching for emerging leaders inside top US corporations.

Seattle, Washington

Second half of life coach for professionals and seekers.Side note: My not so secret agenda is to help create better senior leaders, and elders, to serve our children.

Greater Seattle Area

I help academic and nonprofit clients raise money and get published. I do this by quickly discovering the heart of what is important, learning what the decision makers expect, and putting it all together in a way that greatly increased the odds for success. Here are the tools I use:Grant readiness analysis ProspectingProposal development and writingDevelopmental and copy editing for proposals, reports, articles, web, collateral Communications coaching, including preparation for site visits and public speakingReport and content writing for web and printFoundations, agencies, and other granting organizations I have worked with with include the MacArthur Foundation, Northwest Area Foundation, Smith Richardson Foundation, NEFE, USAID, IBM Center for the Business of Government, Department of State, Rotary Foundation, NSF, NIH, and City of Seattle. I've helped to raise over $15 million for various ventures.

Bellevue, Washington

Worked with a venture capital firm to develop replicable life coaching protocols for corporate wellbeing centers. Developed replicable courses on stress management, time management, mindfullness, relationships, communication, leadership, and mentorship. Developed a life coaching training to educate practitioners from other modalities on life coaching essentials.

Greater Seattle Area

Collaborated with primary Evans School stakeholders to identify policy- and management-related research and programmatic funding goals. Researched sponsored funding, philanthropic, and impact investment trends; ran targeted, goals-based searches using online tools to identify opportunities.Collaborated with primary Evans School stakeholders to develop, write, and edit proposals for cross-sector grant proposals; wrote and edited deliverables for successful proposals. Mapped the Evans School’s funding history to identify trends and inform future advancement strategies.Performed gap analyses to compare organizational giving trends with national giving trends to identify untapped donors.Co-authored reports and edit manuscripts for publications such as the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management and the Public Administration Review.Wrote and edited content for website, newsletters, and communications collateral, ensuring fresh content and brand consistent messaging.Provided communications coaching to prepare faculty for site visits from potential donors.

Content and copy edited cutting edge research articles in the fields of policy analysis and management. Worked with ESL authors to clarify and polish their publications.Consistently met demanding editorial deadlines, editing over 250 printed pages quarterly.

Co-wrote, created budgets, and managed application process for successful multi-million dollar training grants; led meetings to clarify objectives; developed communications and marketing strategies; created application policies and procedures; created course websites; managed budgets to ensure federal compliance; wrote federal reporting requirements.Strategically promoted the mission and vision of the Physiome Project to the international scientific community via the website, collateral, and courses, in service of speeding up the discovery of how biological systems work.Spearheaded the transformation of the Physiome Project's website, creating a platform for indexed mathematical models of the human body. Work included improving UI, editing and removing bloated and redundant code, and rewriting content for clarity.Ran targeted searches to identify federal and private funding opportunities for principal investigators.Managed personnel and inventory database development, including supervision of student employees; directed Intranet Committee to identify a content management system to provide open access to information and connect people and business procedures.Edited manuscripts for publication in top scientific journals.

Greater Seattle Area

Coordinated peer review process for the Annals of Biomedical Engineering, reporting to the Editor-in-Chief.Ensured accepted manuscripts for the Annals of Biomedical Engineering met publisher’s specifications before printing.Edited and prepared manuscripts for publication in peer reviewed scientific journals, including figures, tables, and complex equations.Cataloged publication and reference library, including maintaining a database of all titles, and digital and hard copy files.Prepared complex federal grant applications, including copy and developmental editing, budgets, writing content, creating figures and tables, and editing and formatting equations.

Co-founding editor of RIVET magazine, a Seattle-based arts and culture zine. At its peak, RIVET had 500 subscribers, a circulation of 2,000, 6,000 readers, and 300 unique web views.Managed website redesign from static html to dynamic, database-driven site, significantly increasing web traffic.Member of team-based rebranding effort, which dramatically improved the look and feel of the magazine and increased sales.Edited and wrote web and print content, ensuring brand-appropriate voice.

Seattle, Washington, United States

Along with co-founders, created the foundation for Shunpike's current business model. Shunpike’s mission is to strengthen the Seattle arts community by partnering with small and mid-sized arts groups to develop the business tools they need to succeed.Recruited high impact board member.Shunpike has supported thousands of artists since its inception and now boasts several paid staff positions.

Mais, Comparative Religion

Activities and Societies: Student government, research assistantComparative study of veiling practices in Islam and Christianity.

Certified Icf Coach, Coaching

Arabic

Activities and Societies: Intensive summer Arabic courseIntensive second-year Arabic Course.

Français, Ethnologie

Study abroad program for extensive French study.

B.A., Sociology & Women'S Studies

Activities and Societies: Women's Center, Amnesty InternationalActive in the Women's Center and wrote letters on behalf of Amnesty.

Exchange Student In Sociology, Sociology

Study abroad program.