Experience

CMB Consulting

• Business Consulting and Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Principal

  • Jan 2021 - Present

  CMB Consulting offers nonprofit management guidance in the visual and performing arts, education, advocacy, and healthcare. As principal and founder, responsibilities include: •Strategic innovation: Work closely with leadership to align organizational capacity with need, determine priority projects, set goals, and establish metrics for success. Make recommendations on infrastructure and staffing to more effectively realize organizational aspirations. •Fundraising: Provide a full range of fundraising counsel for major individual donors, capital campaigns, institutional giving, annual fund, and membership drives. •Board development: Provide guidance on governance best practices, recruitment, and leadership development. Assess strengths and needs to ensure leadership effectiveness, organizational alignment, and financial sustainability. •Transition support: During times of organizational transition, serve as Interim Executive Director or as Interim Director of Institutional Advancement. •Program & mission assessment: Analyze program effectiveness and discover new avenues for enhanced philanthropy and impact.



New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care

• United States
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director

  • Jan 2016 - Sep 2020

  Combining expertise in nonprofit management and dedication to Zen practice and education, she wholeheartedly engaged to support the aspiration of transforming the culture of care through contemplative practice, meeting illness, aging and death with wisdom and compassion. • Collaborated with the Leadership Team and the Board of Trustees, to create the organization’s first Strategic Plan. • Envisioned, secured funding and led a pioneering research project grounding the efficacy of a contemplative approach to care. • Worked from the research results and led the development and application of Contemplative Based Resilience Training for staff, administrators, clients and residents in healthcare facilities, creating a holistic approach to influencing the culture of care. • Developed the Board of Trustees, bringing in new members and facilitating leadership, established Board giving practices and created an Executive Committee that enhanced governance. • Led the effort to transition this thirteen-year old Dharma organization toward best practices for a nonprofit. • Increased individual giving by 40%, established an Institutional Giving program and secured over $400,000 in grants, established a Sustaining Member program that generates $120,000 annually



National Academy Museum & School

• United States

• Director

  • 2008 - 2015

  Selected to re-envision and lead this 190 year-old, legacy rich arts and education institution dedicated to the promotion of American art and architecture utilizing a museum, an art school, and an honorary association of peer-elected members. • Initiated and implemented via constitutional change, best practices for more effective governance. • Built Board of Governors to reflect needed expertise and standards of giving. • Led an award winning facilities renovation of all public spaces in three buildings, to include new galleries for the museum as well as faculty and student galleries in the school. Project completed on time and on budget. • Led effort to streamline and broaden school curriculum and established a young artists scholarship program • Created architecture programming that included exhibitions as well as panel discussions and lectures. • Served as the Academy’s lead fundraiser and spokesperson and secured their first seven figure gift



American Craft Council

• United States
• Arts & Crafts
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Executive Director

  • 2002 - 2007

  Led $7 million public education organization with 25 employees that publishes American Craft magazine, produces seven high quality, juried craft shows throughout the country, hosts national conferences, and manages a scholarly library of 14,000 volumes. • Established Council’s first development office and raised $1.3 million in first two years of program. • Re-launched American Craft magazine, broadening editorial scope to consider the intersection of craft, art, design, fashion and architecture to enhance newsstand presence, increase subscribers, and expand advertising sales. • Convened the Council’s first national conference on craft in 20 years and produced a historic conference publication. and created salons hosting leaders in craft and design for discussion on the changing field • Launched a School-to-Market program with select colleges and universities giving students an opportunity to present their work in a commercial venue. • Re-branded Council craft shows, attracting new exhibitors and increasing public attendance. • Built senior management team, hiring an editor-in-chief and publisher, as well as directors of shows, education, development, marketing and communications.



Convent of theSacred Heart

• New York City Metropolitan Area

• Director Of Institutional Advancement

  • 1998 - 2002

  Private, independent girls’ school. Part of international Sacred Heart network. Managed staff of seven for capital campaign, annual fund, alumnae giving, communications and public relations. Served on senior administrative team. Facilitated board committees. • Launched $24 million capital campaign and achieved 40% of goal in 18 months. • Increased annual giving from $500,000 to $1.1 million. • Revamped communications including magazine, annual report and award-winning case statement. • Initiated successful public relations campaign that resulted in a feature story in The New York Times



Carrollton School of the Sacred Heart

• United States
• Primary and Secondary Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director Of Development

  • 1994 - 1997

  Part of the international network of Sacred Heart Schools. Created fund raising infrastructure. Established alumnae giving program. Concluded capital campaign and established donor stewardship program. Trained and motivated annual giving volunteers. Managed special events. Facilitated board committees. Part of the international network of Sacred Heart Schools. Created fund raising infrastructure. Established alumnae giving program. Concluded capital campaign and established donor stewardship program. Trained and motivated annual giving volunteers. Managed special events. Facilitated board committees.



New World Symphony

• United States
• Performing Arts
• 1 - 100 Employee

• VP Marketing and Public Relations

  • 1993 - 1995

  Managed marketing, public relations and audience development for this teaching orchestra while performing in Miami and touring nationally and abroad. Managed public relations for Founding Artistic Director, Michael Tilson Thomas. Managed marketing, public relations and audience development for this teaching orchestra while performing in Miami and touring nationally and abroad. Managed public relations for Founding Artistic Director, Michael Tilson Thomas.