Tom Hansen Email & Phone Number

Fort Collins, Colorado based; National Engagements

• www.thrivehound.comFor companies, non-profits, churches: we start with a 3-day offsite strategic planning intensive, walking your leadership team through 25+ proven perspective and planning tools. They build one by one.
• Operate out of a clearly defined understanding of your organization's purpose
• Clearly know your primary customer - who you primarily serve, why and how
• Understand their values, their sense of their deepest needs and wants
• Know your organizations key success drivers towards those ends - greatest leverage
• Understand your current realities against these factors

Nationwide

www.intervarsity.orgActive leadership roles on the regional or state leadership team - typically serve for 6-9 months while a position is between leaders or the leader is on sabbatical. Leading and supervising staff teams who are leading staff and student leaders. InterVarsity has chapters on over 700 campuses across the U.S. Leading teams in setting.

Western States

Connecting major donors to the vision, heart, and results of InterVarsity's NextGen Campaign 2012-17, which resourced the five year Strategic Plan. Growing philanthropic ways of living and leading in heart, mind and soul. The NextGen campaign focused on planting 150 new InterVarsity chapters in universities and colleges across the country to a total of.

Alaska

• Responded to VP’s appeal to move to Anchorage to open the new Alaska Young Life region. Arrived to a small, scattered base of existing Young Life. Grew every aspect of the organization in Alaska by over 300% in a state.
• One of the highest suicide, alcohol/drug abuse, drop out, sexual & physical abuse rates in the country
• Tough state to raise funds; Alaska is 50th in charitable giving for high-income households
• Alaska’s long-term residents: Highly independent, slow-to-trust, skeptical of “outsiders”
• Land mass of Alaska larger than Texas, California & Montana combined; few roads
• Highly multi-cultural (93+ languages); high percentage of low-income OUTSTANDING RESULTS

Supervised 12 paid staff that led 180 volunteers who worked with thousands of students. Our Regional Leadership Team created and implemented a strategic plan for building a leadership development process through multiple levels of the organization and comprehensive training that would grow Young Life into every middle and high school in Western Washington..

Chair of the Fireside Committee, responsible for organizing gatherings of Rotary members to build relationships and encourage networking.

• Hired to start brand-new Young Life in two school districts where none had existed. Established all necessary funding and created necessary programs in 2 school districts including 3 high schools and 4 middle schools.
• Established an annual campaign of personal solicitation, annual funding events, and fundraising volunteers
• Personally cultivated, solicited and maintained a portfolio of 180 donors; personally cultivated top 10%
• Led financial oversight including budgeting, forecasting and all fundraising activities
• Founded and grew the local Advisory Board tasked to assist with fundraising and community outreach
• Administered a Masters level class over several years to 10 staff that included a major section in fundraising strategies

Mdiv, Leadership & Ministry

Took classes while full-time with Young Life: field classes, summer Institute classes in Colorado Springs and Holland, MI, Seattle campus.

Education record

Bachelor’S Degree, Economics, Philosophy

Activities and Societies: Young Life leader, Choir of the West, Residential Life - RA, Tacoma First Covenant Church, Arete Society My.