Farestart is a James Beard award winning nonprofit organization. I lead FareStart’s consulting practice that cultivates collaboration, drives systems change and advances economic mobility in communities across the country by providing capacity building consulting to nonprofits and practice change advisory services to employers. We co-create pathways to employment and economic self-sufficiency with communities and individuals furthest from opportunity that are overcoming systemic barriers. This is achieved through people-centered program design, community-centered stakeholder alignment, ecosystem building, advocacy, employer practice change and coaching for entrepreneurship. FareStart Consulting has impacted over 270 nonprofit organizations and their employer partners to launch, adapt or grow job training programs in over 150 communities and 47 states and territories as well as 3 provinces of Canada and Scotland. •2021: Consulting practice was named among the top 100 business examples of corporate-ready social enterprises by Acumen, IKEA Social Entrepreneurship and Yunus Social Business. •2021-2022: Serve on REDF's National Resourcing Employment Social Enterprises Together (RESET) Coalition.

Our mission is to help nonprofits cultivate and support highly capable leaders who strive to serve others as they build better organizations, achieve their missions, and ultimately make the world a better place. We accomplish our purposes by sharing our 300+ years of collective nonprofit experience as board members and senior staff through affordable leadership coaching, organizational consulting, leadership training, and referrals to other quality resources in nonprofit leadership and management. Our areas of expertise include nonprofit leadership, management, planning, board development, fundraising, marketing, program design, DEI, social enterprise development, and other areas vital to success as a nonprofit.

Led Catalyst Kitchens as a social impact scaling initiative incubated within FareStart. In 2011, Catalyst Kitchens was established as a network of nonprofits leading a movement to end joblessness through foodservice job training & social enterprise. Scaled national effort from impacting a handful to nearly 400 nonprofits in 185 communities in 50 states and territories. Since its inception, Catalyst Kitchens has been comprised of two key components: consulting services and a membership network. As of February 2022, these two components now operate separately.• FareStart consulting services help develop, launch, and grow foodservice job training programs. The consulting practice has impacted over 270 nonprofit organizations and their employer partners to launch, adapt or grow job training programs in over 150 communities and 47 states and territories as well as 3 provinces of Canada and Scotland. • The Catalyst Kitchens membership network brings together like-minded nonprofit organizations to leverage their collective impact, garner resources and share best practices. I led a backbone team that supported over 250 member organizations who collectively trained over 30,000 individuals furthest from opportunity, connected over 16,000 individuals overcoming barriers with employment, provided 100 million community meals, and invested $355 M in social enterprise revenues back into communities. •2021-2022: Paved the way for the Catalyst Kitchens membership network to become an independent member-governed entity, while relaunching and expanding consulting practice under the FareStart brand.•2013-2022: Scaled the Catalyst Kitchens member network from 9 founding members to over 90. •2020: Oversaw granting of 1.7 M dollars to member organizations under Nick Kristof's Covid-19 Initiative.•2014-2015: Oversaw re-granting of 1.3 M dollars to member organizations.•2012: CK won the Social Impact Exchange’s Business Plan Competition

Management consultancy helping corporations, agencies, non-profits, INGOS and entrepreneurs with start-up, strategic cause marketing and growth initiatives.Clients included:MicrosoftCreature London The Kanga ProjectRural Women's Development AssociationEtta ProjectsEast African Community ServicesCommunity Empowerment NetworkBallard Pie Party for Marsha Rivkin Center for Ovarian Cancer

Bill Gates' owned Corbis is an industry-leading global media company.As a corporate officer and member of the senior leadership team, oversaw Corbis’ largest market – North America. Responsible for four offices (Seattle, Los Angeles, Chicago & New York), 3 Directors, a 150-person team and $65M in revenue. •Change Management: Co-Led a global reimaging of go-to-market strategy in partnership with Boston Consulting Group. Implemented in North America saving $16M.•Organizational Development: Restructured sales force, rebuilt teams, introduced coaching and redesigned commission plan.Product Innovation: Implemented new deal terms, business models, licensing opportunities and product lines to diversify revenue streams and introduce revenue share models.•Process Improvement: Improved interdepartmental collaboration between Sales, Finance and Legal dramatically reducing days outstanding for collections and streamlining the process for volume contract negotiations.•Mergers & Acquisitions: Led cross-functional team and integrated Veer acquisition into sales organization under tight deadline.•Public Relations: PR spokesperson for Corbis' Creativity for Social Justice Award with Art Director's Club New York.

Led new market development efforts in Europe: setting up and launching new offices through a combination of conversion of indirect channel partners, acquisition and start-up. Established Corbis as premier brand and market leader emerging European markets of Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Poland and Ukraine. Organizational Development & Recruiting: Built remote teams of 50+ in five offices worth $25M that consistently exceeded revenue expectations. Office general management: Responsible for inter-departmental vendor relationship management as most back-office support obtained through third party vendors in-country (legal, financial, labor, tech support, property leasing). •Mergers & Acquisitions: Led sales efforts to integrate zefa Gmbh across multiple European markets and expand the company’s geographic footprint. •Start-up & Operational Management: Planned and opened new entities in Italy, Netherlands and Poland. •Business Development: Grew annual image licensing revenues +7% and rights clearance revenues +16% during year of integration and start-up, >20% growth in first full year of operation.•Marketing & Public Relations: Initiated innovative PR, interactive marketing programs, client-events and contests leveraging crowd-sourcing, user-generated content, social media, thereby increasing client engagement and brand penetration.

Led worldwide sales and marketing channel consisting of a remote international interdisciplinary team with over 150 partners in 60 markets worldwide. Subsequently led transition of the business model to include geographic expansion efforts.•Sales Management & Business Development: Led turnaround of organization into most profitable division, worth $40M, generated 40% annual revenue growth (2x the corporate growth rate) with revenue of over $2.5M per sales head.• Strategic Partnerships: Built leadership and board-level relationships with partners globally including BRIC markets. Expanded Channel network by integrating new territories. Established new partnerships in underperforming markets. • Relationship Account Management: Introduced approach for major (key) accounts in emerging market territories and provided dedicated outside sales support, training, marketing tools. •Product Innovation: Partnered with internal and external stakeholders to introduce new, profitable content and technology-based products to the Channel e.g. video, Rights Clearance Services, API and e-commerce. Introduced aligned incentive programs for staff and partners.•Process Improvement: Streamlined workflows, representative and reseller contracts, simplified revenue reporting and negotiated interdepartmental support and service level agreements.• Strategic Planning: Authored 5 year global strategic plan to expand Corbis’ geographic footprint. Gained executive sponsorship and resources.•Change Management: Transformed business model from managing international representatives and distributors to include geographic expansion in which direct sales operations were established in the largest emerging markets. • Start-up and Operations Management: Established and incubated new offices/direct sales operations in Canada and Spain. Launched EMEA contact center.

Built organization of 40+ in two regional offices comprised of sales, customer service, operations and research teams in North and Midwest US regions.•Managed transition from analog to digital delivery of content and creative services.•Generated average annual revenue growth of 15% with highest sales team productivity worldwide.•Launched, promoted and led global brand-building multilingual 24x7 customer service program. •Established regional office in Chicago for 2nd largest national market from ground level.•Co-authored North American price and licensing guidelines manual.•Negotiated volume contracts with Fortune 500 companies. •Partnered with Finance to streamline credit establishment workflow, cross-trained staff and implemented new process.•Led functional managers meetings at corporate headquarters: promoted inter-departmental communication and drove cost reduction measures across departments.•Promoted One-Million-Dollar Bettmann Image Donation Program for non-profit & INGO & cause marketing usage of classic historical images.