Landen Zernickow Email & Phone Number

Portland, Or, Us

I assess, design, and deliver solutions to a wide range of clients at leader, team, and organization-wide levels: combining culture with structure, presence with performance, and truth with transformation. These solutions make lasting impact, in the form of whole-hearted effective leaders, trusting teams, and organizations whose human capital strategy accelerates results.

Portland, Oregon Area

I empowered organizations to prove and improve their impact by building capacity in evaluation, strategy, and leadership, coaching them along the way, and helping them to communicate the valuable implications and next steps.

Using Learning and Knowledge Management practices, I developed a series of research-based technical, cultural, and operational recommendations to improve coach experience and effectiveness for clients. I also established and implemented a Talent Management hiring and onboarding process that brought in 19 coaches from 8 countries.

Gresham, Oregon

I leveraged over $1.4 million in funding to align collaborative public-private partnerships and invest in STEM initiatives in East Multnomah County. Using organizational development strategies, I focused the partnership on equity in systems-change, developed and implemented collaborative strategic planning, implemented a distributed leadership model of collective impact, facilitated numerous workshops, fostered relationships with a Board of Directors and 150+ partner organizations, developed an evaluation strategy, conducted communications via website and social media, and supervised several staff members toward common goals.

San Francisco Bay Area

I led a high-growth, fast-paced nonprofit start-up team to implement student recruitment, professional skills training, year-long meaningful internships, and college access programming for high school students. Through organizational development, internal communications, and operations, I scaled the number of historically disadvantaged students served by 5-fold in 4 years, and developed the talent of 15 staff members across 3 regions remotely.

San Francisco Bay Area

I designed and implemented inaugural Alumni Program to support, track, and reengage students in transition to and through college, achieving a 95% college enrollment rate. I also spearheaded a national initiative in knowledge management of measurement systems for the identification, collection, storage, and analysis of alumni outcome data in Salesforce.com.

San Francisco Bay Area

I customized national curriculum to Bay Area context, then trained first class of 29 economically-disadvantaged high school seniors during their intensive 8-week summer program, then managed relationships with 10 corporate partners and supported their supervision of 19 high school interns, while facilitating weekly college and career coaching sessions to establish a personalized post-secondary plan per student. I also served as local Salesforce administrator and liaison to the evaluation team determining organizational ROI.

San Francisco Bay Area

I designed curriculum and conducted 25+ trainings and provided technical assistance for international au pair agencies in person and online, in Spanish and English, resulting in more applications and partnerships.

Monterey, Ca

I conducted gap and needs assessments of Latino entrepreneurs and MBA students in Monterey County leading to the organizational design and evaluation plan for an educational consultancy program. Then I was hired by Monterey Country Department of Economic Development to continue to develop this program.

Monterey, Ca

I provided customer service for Leadership and Education Development Institute for nonprofit leaders in Monterey County and analyzed 4-year trends in management assistance grant program, developing recommendations for improvement.

Washington, D.C.

I oversaw projects in 6 countries and a $200k+ budget, designing curriculum and conducting trainings for 80+ bank staff members in financial counseling skills. As a result, 30,000+ remittance recipients and immigrants gained knowledge and skills around financial literacy. I also published a financial literacy manual and curriculum, as well as 3 Dialogue on Democracy reports for policy-makers.

Greater St. Louis Area

I developed programming for students returning from abroad and students preparing for semesters through presentations and events, and I arranged outreach and relations with other international campus groups.

Masters, Public Administration, 3.97

Nonprofit management coursework: Managing Social Change Organizations, Program Evaluation, Principles of Training, Human Resources.

Certificate, Development Project Management Institute (Dpmi)

Acquired project management skills for project planning, specifically logical framework analysis and results-framework, facilitation.

B.A., Latin American Studies, Spanish, Portuguese, 3.92

Activities and Societies: President of Sigma Iota Rho, Research Assistant, Study Abroad Assistant of Overseas Programs, International.

Education record

Activities and Societies: Immersive university study abroad in Santiago, Chile

Sit Study Abroad: Brazil - Social Justice

Education record

Activities and Societies: Immersive study abroad in La Serena, Chile