St. Coletta of Greater Washington is a world-renowned nonsectarian institution serving children, youth and adults with intellectual and multiple disabilities in Washington, DC, VA and MD. Along with our landmark school headquarters, designed and built by Michael Graves in 2006, St. Coletta operates community support hubs in Maryland and Virginia, and, under the Coletta Collections banner, runs a social enterprise where artisans with disabilities design and sell unique crafts and jewelry.

New England Village empowers youth and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities to pursue their dreams and live rich, purposeful lives. New England Village provides a spectrum of exemplary services including seventeen residential programs, day habilitation, employment supports, community based day services and a broad range of wellness activities.Select accomplishments:• Firmly and successfully established an interim mission shift to protect the health and safety of NEV residents, participants and staff from the COVID-19 virus as fully as humanly possible. Not a single person served by NEV was hospitalized for COVID-19.• Led a successful strategic planning process in a rapidly evolving environment• Advanced culture and rebuilt morale and trust by espousing a servant leadership organizational model and a commitment to everyday excellence• Positively engaged resident and participant families and caregivers• Established, nurtured and deepened relationships with strategic partners and stakeholders• Led activities and made investments which strengthened NEV’s ability to attract, retain and develop highly competent and professional staff• Diversified revenue streams and broadened philanthropic support, including maximizing pandemic-related revenue streams•Enhanced organizational systems and infrastructure, and identified and addressed critical safety, service quality and technology issues

Thrive empowers children and adults with developmental disabilities to lead rich, active and self-directed lives. Our exemplary family support, youth, social, recreational and residential services are renowned for their quality, innovation, and impact. Rapidly growing, we now serve 46 Massachusetts communities.Select accomplishments to date:• Led a successful strategic planning process• Successfully implemented a complete rebranding (including a name change)• Implemented a sustainable development program, raising more than $468,000 in Thrive's most recent fiscal year• Expanded number of communities served from 11 to 46• Expanded Thrive’s continuum of services• Established a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship• Advanced key relationships• Created Leadership Experience and Development (LEAD) initiative for young future community leaders with developmental disabilities

Dynamic nonprofit organization providing exemplary career, youth development, advocacy, residential, healthcare, wellness and abuse prevention services for youth and adults with disabilities.Major accomplishments:• Dramatically expanded Triangle’s continuum of services and launched nationally-recognized initiatives• Led the organization from the brink of bankruptcy to strong and sustainable financial health• Established a change in culture, creating a person-centered, entrepreneurial, innovative, outcomes-based environment• Significantly expanded centers of operation (from 4 to 14), number of individuals served annually (from 285 to over 4,000) and geographic reach (from 35 to 140 communities served)• Transformed Massachusetts’ largest sheltered workshop to the state leader in community based employment, placing 182 individuals in competitive employment in 2015• Completed mergers with three nonprofits to magnify mission impact, diversify services for constituents, significantly expand Triangle’s service area, and strengthen employment and training opportunities• Divested services and activities no longer effective or economically feasible while successfully supporting participants and staff through these transitions• Grew total annual revenue from $5 million to over $15 million; grew annual fundraising revenue from less than $200,000 to more than $1.8 million• Co-created Ablevision, an internationally syndicated newsmagazine television program produced entirely by people with disabilities• Oversaw the international Accessible Icon Project, changing public perception of people with disabilities worldwide• Strengthened Triangle’s Board of Directors by engaging and recruiting leaders and decision makers across a broad spectrum of sectors• Led multiple strategic planning processes• Recruited, developed and nurtured leaders• Consistently fostered visibility, accessibility and emotional connection with participants, staff and other constituents

Multi-service nonprofit organization providing career and support services for people with disabilities and other barriers to employment.• Led all operational and business activities• Ensured fiscal integrity of all programs and operations• Oversaw federal and state contracts and programs• Collaborated with workforce development and human service professionals to ensure best practices in career training and placement • Re-engineered and expanded donated goods collection, processing and distribution

A national workforce development nonprofit helping young people pursue and establish careers in the environmental field.• Managed all nationwide programmatic, operational and business activities• Actively oversaw operations in Boston, Cleveland, Tampa, Seattle and San Francisco• Encouraged and ensured the career development of young men and women in the growing environmental industry• Led dramatic growth in annual internship placements from 185 to 850• Transformed a disorganized and fiscally unstable organization to one that was healthy and thriving

A multi-disciplinary environmental consulting firm.• Directed all business and support service activities• Ensured fiscal integrity of all operations• Managed all financial activities

A multi-service for-profit corporation that operates Job Corps Centers and serves at-risk and adjudicated youth in a residential and vocational setting• Directed all business affairs • Managed contracts with the US Department of Labor• Oversaw all financial activities• Directed property management in compliance with General Services Administration regulations