Katherine Spinney Coaching LLC helps organizations fulfill their missions by strengthening leadership to better retain high-quality staff. Through coaching, training and mentoring, Katherine Spinney Coaching strengthens you to lead your team more successfully and serve your clients more effectively.* SBA Certified Woman-Owned Business* PQA External Assessor* AYD Certified Facilitator* ICF-Certified Coach* Keynote Speaker* Conference Presenter* Workshop Facilitator* Social Work Intern Supervisor

Intro to Social Work

* Internal and external facing responsibilities, ranging from program and development project management to administration and human capital. * Partner closely with the ED to chart Our Military Kids’ future growth and strategic response to an ever-changing demand for the organization’s services.• Structure and lead teams to deliver outstanding customer/donor work.• Build and maintain strong donor relationships.• Represent Our Military Kids in industry conferences, professional associations, and other public venues.• Develop thought leadership around specific topics/emerging practice areas.• Share in knowledge dissemination, reporting, and communications.• Identify best practices and improve internal systems with an eye toward future needs and budget realities.• Mentoring, coaching; visible, approachable sounding board/resource

• Ensured a 100% high school graduation and college matriculation rate for seniors while managing an in-house scholarship program that awards $40,000 yearly to 15 students currently attending 14 different colleges and universities.• Increased school year enrollment by 40% and summer enrollment by 38% while also facilitating 1000 hours of yearly community service by our students.• Maintained 80% ADA and greater than 95% retention rate.• Increased over 80% of students’ math and reading levels during the school year; maintained 86% of students’ reading levels over the summer. • Developed, implemented and oriented greater staff to agency-wide Child Protection Policy and department-wide Anti-Bullying Policy.• Write and manage multiple grants to cover 100% of programming costs.• Create, implement and evaluate department wide outcomes as well as individual staff and center goals.• Designed and implement monthly training sessions for the supervisors I oversee in order to coach, train and support them in their roles as supervisors.• Lead a cultural competency initiative to help the organization practice cultural competency with both staff and clients.• Created a program manual and created/updated all program policies to ensure we are operating ethically, legally and in the best interests of the students and families we serve.

• Collaborated with multiple partners to provide enrichment, donations, workshops, services, classes, information sessions, and education to over 450 clients per year.• Introduced project-based learning to the center and department. Worked with elementary students to implement a service-learning project that raised over $2000 for a local children’s hospital.• Maintained a 90% ADA and increased clients served by 20%. • Exceeded literacy increase goal by 20% for elementary school students and GPA increase by 40% for secondary students.

• Created, implemented and evaluated weekly lesson plans, assignments and exams for students at one of Korea's top educational institutions.• Introduced major areas of English instruction, including, but not limited to: listening, speaking, grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation, discussion, reading and writing.• Chosen as the representative of the foreign teacher staff; designed course curriculum, created schedules, coordinated weekly staff meetings, attended all-staff meetings and events.• Boys’ head basketball coach.

• • Developed curriculum and corresponding materials (lesson plans, worksheets, activities, assignments, homework, projects and exams) for students K-12.• Designed advanced writing and U.S. History courses for higher level students.• Managed teaching staff of both American and Korean employees.

• Designed, implemented and evaluated government/history classes in an urban high school.• Elected as first-year teachers’ team leader to facilitate meetings for all first-year teachers.• JV girls’ head basketball coach; varsity girls’ assistant coach, student government advisor.