Clifton StrengthsFinder My Top Five: Focus, Achiever, Significance, Activator, MaximizerI served as Associate Director of the Americas Committee for Treatment & Research in Multiple Sclerosis and Executive Director of the Environmental Design Research Association. I was the Director of Leadership Giving for the United Way of Dane County prospecting and cultivating donors capable of making gifts of $10K+. I managed the Professional Services workplace campaign supporting the pioneering work of Partners for Change, a collaboration among Dane County's largest law firms to raise awareness in and dollars for the Agenda for Change.I worked as the Director of Meetings for the World Allergy Organization, an international umbrella organization consisting of regional, national allergy, asthma & clinical immunology societies in 75 countries and was the Executive Director of the Oregon Area Chamber of Commerce in Wisconsin.For over ten years, I planned congresses and special events internationally organizing high security, leadership meetings in venues that included the embassies of Canada, Australia, Italy & Russia in Washington DC, the Sistine Chapel, Rome and the Dublin Castle, Ireland. I planned conferences in Brisbane, Australia; Nassau, The Bahamas; Rome, Italy; Calgary, Canada, Dublin, Ireland, Hong Kong, China, Cancun, Mexico and Hyderabad, India. Before coming to the US, I was a Deputy Project Director & Marketing Director for a US Agency for International Development funded project in the Philippines. I also provided credit union marketing consultancy in Tashkent, Bukhara, Namangan, and Samarqand, Uzbekistan funded by the Asian Development Bank.My earlier professional work included radio and television news reporting and, anchoring for festivals in Davao City, Philippines.