Virtual Lunch & Learn

Creating Content, Finding Joy, & Telling Your Story Using What You Already Have.

We live in a time where social media marketing is key to business growth. A time where “impressions”, “likes”, and subscribers can make or break our next event. Many of us may not feel that we are adequately prepared to use these platforms in a way that sells.

I believe that many businesses lack one simple thing: Authenticity in Storytelling.

Besides that, we are also living in a scarcity mindset.

This 90 Minute workshop will focus in on the idea that we truly do have everything we need to craft the stories that foster connection and hopefully a genuine transaction. Sanovia, a trauma-informed arts based practitioner and founder of Pack Light, LLC, will speak on how we transform our minds from not having enough, to creating from exactly where we are using the stories we already have. This session will close with a Q & A session and you will leave with tangible & valuable resources on how to create amazing low cost and effective content.

Learning Objectives

1. What if I told you that LIMITS only Exist in Your Mind?
2. Become Idea Centered & Give Space for Failure in their Execution
3. Only Do What Brings You Joy.
4. All Victories won’t Matter Until Small Victories Do
5. Show Up Authentically (Start from Where You Currently Take up Space)

About Our Facilitator

Sanovia Garrett: As a Creative Entrepreneur, Performance Artist, and resident instigator, sparker, innergizer of JOY, Sanovia’s goal is to transform the world from the inside out using a trauma-informed arts based practice. Sanovia is a Muncie Central class of 2010 graduate as well as a first generation college graduate of Ball State University’s 2014 Communication Studies (leadership minor) class. She graduated with her Masters in Urban Studies (Community Arts) from Eastern University in 2018 and is now pursing a full time life as a creative as well as working as an enrollment counselor for the same University.

Many of Sanovia’s activities are centered on arts ( e.g., movement therapy, creative coaching, music performances, poetry, podcasting, and joy-based events curator).

Her first ep, ‘You Have Everything You Need’ (YHEYN) which released on January 26th, 2020 was mostly recorded in her bedroom. The phrase YHEYN has been the guiding light she has used to help inspire her creativity throughout the last two years. Her business Pack Light, LLC was founded in January of 2019, largely in conjunction with that same phrase.

Sanovia is currently living in the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania area.

Virtual Workshop 2-Part Series

Session #1:
Wednesday, December 22
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM

Session #2:
Thursday, December 23
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM

Workplace stress and burnout are a threat to every organization, and neuroscientists agree that we cannot do our best decision-making when our brains are in crisis mode. Understanding the root causes of stress AND the data-driven ways of managing stress in healthy, sustainable ways benefits your people and your organization immediately and for the long term. In this highly interactive session, we do a quick triage of participants’ current stress factors, and use this real-time information to discuss best practices for addressing both acute and chronic stressors. Participants will leave with a personalized plan for stress interventions and ongoing stress management practices that they can use in their personal and professional lives, as well as information to take back to their teams for improved workplace environments and experiences.

Learning Objectives

1. What is the difference between acute and chronic stress?
2. How can leaders identify stress in themselves and their teams?
3. What are the benefits of a formal stress management strategy?
4. What are ways individuals can manage stress in the moment?
5. How can organizations create cultures that mitigate the impacts of stress?

This program is ideal for: anyone who is human, works with humans, or has aspirations of becoming human. 🙂

About Our Facilitator

Sarah Ratekin is the founder and Chief Happiness Officer of Happiness Is Courage Inc. where she channels her passion for creating incredible employee experiences to help clients solve difficult engagement challenges. She leverages her skills in translating the science of happiness and well-being into actionable plans, for radically positive results. Sarah is an enthusiastic positivity activist who believes we can change the world for the better by being positive, grateful and kind. and a pragmatic businesswoman who understands the ROI of positive employee experiences.

She has spoken at conferences across North America, facilitated numerous workshops on workplace excellence, and worked with groups from 2 to 200+ to discover and embrace their personal strengths, ambitions and relationship goals.

She and her spouse Kris, both certified Laughter Yoga leaders, also travel extensively bringing the joy and power of laughter and positivity with organizations of all sizes and industries. In their downtime, they enjoy exploring the outdoors (usually by kayak), dancing and general merry adventuring. Sarah and her family currently reside in Indiana.

Virtual coffee talk

Organizations are scrambling to write a new playbook to make sense of the emerging business landscape. Leaders report high levels of employee anxiety, fatigue, and mistrust as businesses explore opening offices safely, are already back in the office, or balance a hybrid remote and on-site environment. Familiar, go-to practices that help us build trust, and deliver results with focus, accountability, and care are under scrutiny today. Specifically, making sense and trust in today’s climate is awkward and clumsy. Leaders are having trouble in helping people hold hope, stay accountable to daily work, and drive business results.

Learning Objectives

1. Practice exercises that help build hope in each conversation and interaction
2. Explore how their strengths can also create difficulty for them
3. Take away one idea on how to use love as a foundation to leadership practices
4. Consider ideas to build a conversational toolkit to make all conversations safe, equitable and inclusive

About Our Facilitator

Sunitha Narayanan brings creativity, play, gentle humor, and focus with 25+ years of experience in leadership and executive coaching to elevate leadership impact by helping leaders and their teams harness strengths by raising awareness around blind spots, untapped talent, and cognitive diversity.
With deep and intuitive listening Sunitha helps clients uncover where they are in their growth process, to hear where they are out of balance as well as how a client’s vision, values and purpose drive their engagement and alignment to personal and organizational goals. The feedback from clients when clients work with Sunitha is that she offers a safe yet challenging space to experiment without censure; to use failure as creative inspiration; a space to build a culture that promotes psychological safety so that each voice is honored.

Sunitha brings a deep and extensive background in a variety of behavioral and leadership assessment tools to analyze data from stakeholders with exceptional ability and documented success in establishing trust and intimacy of coaching relationships. She is published in industry journals on leadership topics such as authenticity, performance management, team building, and productive conversations. Her personal belief is that exemplary and unstoppable work happens with and through people. And she is on a mission to hold wholehearted space so that clients can listen to their authentic voice first, then connect that to that of a colleague or a team.

Virtual Workshop 2-Part Series

Session #1:
Wednesday, January 26
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM

Session #2:
Thursday, January 27
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM

Within your team or organizational culture, you are always going to get a combination of two things: what you intentionally create and what you choose to allow.

The call for every leader is to be radically committed to creating a culture that creates the conditions for individual thriving and shared success. The challenge is to be radically committed to seeing what they’re tolerating or ignoring that creates the conditions for individual struggles and collective underperforming.

In this session, let’s define the kind of culture you have. Then we will dig in to name the core values showing up in a positive way—the characteristic ways you create alignment, momentum, and purpose for your team or organization. Next, we will explore the shadow side of your culture. What’s tolerated, ignored, or not able to be safely talked about that is derailing the health and performance of your team?

Ultimately, reality is your friend. If you know what’s working—and what’s not—you can be radically in control of taking intentional steps to promote the best and minimize the worst. While the culture is co-created by everyone, leaders have outsized responsibility and influence. The question is, what are you going to do with it?

Learning Objectives

1. Clearly define culture
2. Assess your current culture
3. Identify strengths/alignment within the culture
4. Identify weaknesses/misalignment within the culture
5. Come up with a strategic plan for investing in a healthy, thriving culture

This program is ideal for: Executives/Leaders/Managers

About Our Facilitator

Adam Bouse is a Performance Coach at 15Five. With more than a dozen years of frontline management and leadership experience prior to entering the field of coaching, he is focused on helping individuals grow, teams thrive, and organizations maximize performance. He holds an M.A. in Organizational Leadership, is a certified emotional intelligence (EQ) coach, and has experience working with all organizational levels, from the frontlines through the C-suite. Adam’s coaching specialties include EQ, resonant leadership, difficult conversations, change management, manager development, goal setting, and empathy.

Virtual coffee talk

Do you want to be inclusive, but don’t know exactly what that entails? This session will address best practices in fostering inclusive environments, both at a team and corporate level. There will be a heavy focus on LGBTQ+ inclusivity, but this will also encompass welcoming all types of diverse teammates you may hire or have in your workplace. Help your team feel like they belong and can be themselves under your leadership.

Learning Objectives

1. Reflect on your own identity and assumptions
2. Identify 3 ways to welcome teammates who are different than you
3. Learn about best practices in inclusivity, especially within LGBTQ+ spaces, such as usage of pronouns and nonbinary identity.
4. Explore the idea of Employee Resource Groups and how to initiate those conversations
5. Identify points of entry to help people feel welcome, from onboarding, to communication channels, to team introductions and check-ins.

This program is ideal for: first time supervisors, managers of any type, but truly anyone.

About Our Facilitator

Laura Holt is a queer career coach who completed an SHRM mentorship program that focused on diversity and inclusion and was a corporate technical recruiter for 1.5 years on an HR team. She is the co-lead of Out@Galvanize, and founder of the Pride Employee Resource Group at her last workplace as well. Laura is a career coach who has been presenting in public forums for over ten years on multiple different topics. She participated in Toastmasters in Phoenix, Arizona, where she received her formal training in public speaking and improvisation tactics. She has worked in large corporate environments, nonprofits, and smaller startups. She speaks Spanish fluently and has traveled to over 15+ countries since she was 14. Her passion is giving leaders the confidence they need to succeed, as well as help jobseekers believe in their path forward and achieve their goals. She started her own business, Eight Legged Moves in 2021, and looks forward to what 2022 holds.

Virtual Workshop 2-Part Series

Session #1:
Wednesday, February 23
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM

Session #2:
Thursday, February 24
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM

Wellness is not just something you talk about, it’s something you do! During this session, we will define what wellness is generally, but also what it looks like for you personally! We will talk about ways to create lasting habits, ways to make small, but impactful changes, as well as ways to move your body intentionally throughout the day. Incorporating wellness into your daily routine is simple! It isn’t going to take a complete overall of your day but instead is all about focusing on the small ways you can be more intentional.

Learning Objectives

1. Definition of wellness & how it relates to yourself
2. Establishing wellness practices in your life
3. Actionable Steps to stay consistent in wellness practices

This program is ideal for: Anyone and everyone looking to make small, but important improvements to their day!

About Our Facilitator

Shaina Partlow is a certified health coach who virtually coaches busy millennial women to become experts on their own bodies to live their healthiest life. Shaina received her Health Coaching certificate from the Institute for Integrative Nutrition.

She graduated from Brigham Young University with a bachelor’s degree in English Literature. She went on to receive her master’s degree from Ball State University in Student Affairs Administration in Higher Education. After working as a Career Coach at Purdue University, Shaina realized that many of the students she was working with also needed help in other areas of their lives. She decided to get certified as a Health Coach to help people better understand how health is interrelated to all areas of their lives.

Shaina coaches her clients in areas of nutrition, physical activity, relationships, career, and joy to name a few. Her clients learn how to be body literate – how to listen and understand what their body wants while still enjoying life! Shaina believes that health involves moving your body, eating foods you enjoy, and being with the people you love.

Shaina lives in South Carolina with her husband and her sassy labradoodle Sage.

Virtual coffee talk

This 90 minute session takes participants through a mindset analysis and challenges the current thoughts and perceptions they have towards everyday moments. With a negativity bias, we often default to the worst case scenario. But with a mindset shift and understanding how and when the brain chooses to change view, we can learn to look at the world with a more positive light.

Learning Objectives

1. The science behind positive and negative psychology
2. How to become more aware of present situations and emotional responses
3. Ways to look at life with a lens of gratitude and true joy
4. Connections between the community and commonalities you may not see otherwise
5. Tangible takeaways to apply to your own life and to inspire others

This program is ideal for: Business Owners, Managers, Community Leaders

About Our Facilitator

Kyleigh Mazer is a Southern Indiana native who is excited to serve businesses across Indiana with the ActionCOACH brand. She enjoys helping people build a business they are proud of and a life they love. Having grown up in her family’s business, she was bitten early on by the entrepreneurial bug and has continued that passion since. Kyleigh holds two degrees from Ball State University with an undergraduate degree in Entrepreneurial Management, Marketing, and Leadership, and her MBA, and had a side gig as Charlie Cardinal during her time at school.

Directly out of college, Kyleigh jumped into the hustle of a startup located in Indy where she gained new insight and experience serving clients of the growing company. She has also served as a Business Advisor with the Indiana Small Business Development Center. Kyleigh holds certifications as a facilitator & coach with Gallup CliftonStrengths, FourSight Innovation, LEGO® Serious Play®, and the Entrepreneurial Mindset Profile.

Outside of work, Kyleigh enjoys spending time at the lake, reading, jogging, and playing board games with her friends and family. Any chance to learn, pet a dog, or eat ice cream is right up her alley.

Virtual Workshop 2-Part Series

Session #1:
Wednesday, March 23
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM

Session #2:
Thursday, March 24
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM

Whether you are a leader, manager, or frontline employee, you can benefit from increased creativity. This is increasingly important as jobs become automated and organizations are called upon to adapt and pivot in a rapidly changing environment. Understanding what creativity is and how to foster it will help you whether you are leading a company, seeking to enhance your career, or want to expand your personal life. Join me, as we follow the lead of The Magic Schoolbus’ Ms. Frizzle and explore the power of taking chances, making mistakes, and getting messy!

Learning Objectives

1. What is creativity?
2. What are the benefits of creativity?
3. How can leaders support creativity?
4. How can individuals nurture their own creativity?

This program is ideal for: executives, managers, employees, and anyone who wants to increase their creativity.

About Our Facilitator

Morgan O’Donnell grew up exploring the Appalachian mountains before joining the Army where she was trained as a Russian linguist for military intelligence. Besides serving in the military, she has worked in a variety of interesting jobs, including taxi driver, office manager for psychologists, teaching fellow, public services librarian, and graduate advisor to name a few. In her last traditional job she worked with university leaders to coordinate and oversee graduate recruitment. Morgan has spent many years advising and assisting people from new Toastmasters members to students to nonprofit leaders. Creatively, her first passion was writing where she published poetry and essays in different journals as well as launching her own online poetry and art journal and a small chapbook press. More recently, Morgan has focused her creative energies on metal embossing, sculpture, and mixed media experiments.

In-Person Workshop

In these unprecedented times, most of the moves in our leadership playbooks have been tossed out the window. So, what now? What next? There has been a growing awareness around the condition of “languishing,” and in this session participants will explore how languishing shows up in themselves, their team, and their workplace. Then, participants will gain strategies for how to move themselves, their teams, and their workplaces through languishing and toward the more optimal state of “flourishing.” This kind of leadership requires most of us to shake up old routines and mindsets and create a new way forward.

Learning Objectives

1. What are “languishing” and “flourishing” and how do they show up in ourselves, our teams, and our workplaces?
2. What are strategies to get ourselves and our teams OUT of languishing?
3. What does flourishing look like for our individual teams, and how do we help them achieve that?
4. How languishing and flourishing are connected to Emotional Intelligence, and why that matters

This program is ideal for: any leader/person in a supervisory position, regardless of experience or industry

About Our Facilitator

Erika Petrelli has been in people-development for more than 25 years, currently as The Leadership Program’s Senior Vice President of Leadership Development (& self-declared Minister of Mischief). She worked at the helm of Leadership’s central programming for more than a decade, overseeing its largest expansion, and now trains key leadership skills to professionals across the country—as a keynote speaker and featured presenter at conferences, a trainer and coach within organizations, and a leadership-whisperer to individuals. She also blogs regularly and wrote an interactive journal, On Wings & Whimsy: Finding the Extraordinary Within the Ordinary, available on Amazon. Whether from a conference stage, behind a pen, or in one-on-one conversation, the legacy Erika strives to create daily is to be the runway upon which others take flight.

IN-Person Lunch & Learn

This session will cover a variety of contemporary trends employers should be watching for in the near future. These are trends that can help make their recruiting and retention efforts more successful and keep employees engaged. Some of these trends include:

• Training managers and employees in non-technical skills (decision-making, goal-setting, communication, people skills)
• Creating more flexible work environments (remote and hybrid work)
• Understanding the newer generation of workers
• Fostering more employee engagement
• Prioritizing employee wellness and mental health
• Ditching the long performance appraisal process
• Bringing more diversity, equity and inclusion into the workplace
• Allowing employees to be “human” at work
• Giving employees opportunities to grow and develop

Learning Objectives

1. Why you should create purposeful strategies for engagement and retention
2. Why it is important to be aware of and care about employees’ needs
3. Why you should want to develop your employees’ skills

This program is ideal for: Private businesses and nonprofits, business owners, upper and middle management

About Our Facilitator

Cindi Kiner is a business consultant with several years of experience in all areas of human resource management. Since forming The HR Connection in 2006, she has helped companies in various industries with strategic planning, talent management, employee and management training, policy development, and benefit plan analysis and administration. Additionally, she is an adjunct professor for Ball State University and Ivy Tech Community College.

As Director of Administration for a general contractor and commercial real estate development/property management company, Cindi performed all of the human resource functions for 200+ employees. Her previous corporate experience includes office management, network administration and insurance sales. Cindi’s varied responsibilities and background, from the front line to the board room, have given her the opportunity to see how businesses operate from the inside, and have helped to develop her overall business acumen.

Cindi received her Master of Business Administration from Indiana Wesleyan University. She currently serves as First Vice President to the Board of Directors for the New Castle-Henry County Chamber of Commerce. She and her husband are part of the ministry staff and serve in an educational capacity for their church in New Castle, Indiana.

In-Person Workshop

You’ve done the strength assessments; you’ve done the SWOT analysis, and you’ve participated in the office retreats. It’s all been great, but you can’t help but feel that some pieces just aren’t fitting together, all the blocks don’t seem to be forming a whole shape. Maybe it’s time to reconstruct how we approach self-assessment and goal setting. Maybe it’s time to start building ourselves up one brick at a time. In this highly interactive workshop, we will engage with LEGO® Serious Play®, a powerful and innovative consulting tool that’s being used in teams and businesses around the world. This methodology utilizes flow theory and neurological aspects of play to get past our filters and reveal things about our strengths and talents that we never knew we knew. If you’ve ever felt like goal setting or strength development was arbitrary or without outcomes, it may be time to play with LEGO® again in one of the most introvert/extrovert-friendly programs ever developed.

Learning Objectives

1. Construct a visual, narrative representation of their strengths, goals, and opportunities
2. Have a clearer picture of their immediate and long-term professional goals
3. Identify a specific contribution that they can make to their career growth or current role
4. Craft a “next steps” statement before departing the workshop

This program is ideal for: anyone trying to create a well-designed life and career. Educators or team leaders may also find great value in learning more about this tool.

About Our Facilitator

Dillon Waggoner is a career coach at Ball State University, where he facilitates workshops and one-on-one sessions to help students identify and develop strengths and skills. Since completing his masters degree in 2017, he has sought to bring play and game elements into learning and professional development. He and the BSU Career Center team have created escape rooms to teach workplace problem solving and strive to add highly interactive elements into all of center’s career development efforts. Dillon become a certified facilitator in LEGO® Serious Play® methodology in 2020.

IN-Person Lunch & Learn

With so many places pushing information out, it’s hard sometimes to know what’s real and what’s fiction. As local journalists, we can help provide tools that will help anyone with access to the internet be sure that the information they are not only reading, but sometimes more importantly sharing comes from trusted and reliable sources. We’ll talk about journalism ethics, what real reporters are required to do prior to sharing a story, and why much of the information you see on social media platforms often isn’t news at all. We’ll answer questions about how we do what we do, and do some myth-busting about who we are and the work we do.

Learning Objectives

1. How to be a smart consumer of online information
2. What you should know about certain “news” outlets so you can arm yourself with good information.
3. What ethics journalists must follow to do their work the right way.

This program is ideal for: anyone

About Our Facilitator

Lisa Renze (advisor) and staff of the Ball State Daily News are national award-winning journalists who are committed to the 100-year-old tradition of student media and community journalism that began at the university a century ago. We follow a code of ethics, have many built-in checks and balances we engage when doing our work and believe in the power of responsible, ethical journalism.

In-Person Workshop

This session will use the “Quilt” to have participants, possibly from the same company, spend time writing down their thoughts related to the future development of their company given the various challenges companies face. This could also be done for parents doing family planning and for individuals developing a personal strategic plan to better themselves personally or professionally. Each participant will spend some time either with ‘team or family members’ or solo writing down a wide range of ideas related to ‘the plan’. Time will be spent working through these and then each participant will ‘move’ these ideas into a central area of the Quilt. Once there they’ll decide the key changes needed to get the results they want, which would be nice to add if possible and if they truly have the resources yet a third layer can be added to their future plan.

Learning Objectives

1. Gives an individual, a company owner/manager and/or a team to spend time truly thinking about the future and the elements to remain competitive and/or make progress
2. Conversation is a key part of this once the Quilt is completed and team members begin sharing their Quilts.
3. The teams or family members will move key items to a team Quilt which will serve as a guide for future planning and development
4. It’s possible there will be more than one Quilt for a team. Planning may need to be done for personnel needs, personal needs, competition and new product development
5. The session concludes with scissors cutting around the outside of the Quilt and focusing on the ‘final strategic plan’.

This program is ideal for: businesses engaged in a competitive marketplace and the employees involved in the decision-making process. It would also work well for smaller business owners to take a ‘coffee’ break and take time to think about the future direction of their enterprise. Family members have done this session in the past and found out some interesting things about their children along with their spouses. Managers who face various competitive challenges would benefit from taking time to unleash their thoughts on the Quilt but then have to take stock in all their ideas and narrow it down to the list that is realistic and can be accomplished given any budget/employee/location restrictions.

About Our Facilitator

Dr. Joe Misiewicz, is the Emeritus Chair of the Department of Telecommunications at Ball State, and in addition to many other accomplishments, served as the President and CEO of the Indiana Broadcasters Association.

IN-Person Lunch & Learn

Everyone experiences some degree of stress and in this ever changing and uncertain time, it is ever more important to have tools in our toolbox to aid us in processing the stressors affecting each of us today. Your breath plays an important role in helping to regulate how we respond to the stressor. We are all told to “just breathe” however, many of us really do not know how to breathe any different. This workshop will help you start to identify/notice when you start to become stressed and when breathing techniques would be beneficial.

Relax and come breathe with me.

Learning Objectives

1. Why and how breath plays an important role in working through stress.
2. How to begin to become aware of the changes in our body and mind when stress.
3. Practical breath techniques for any moment of rising stress.

This program is ideal for:anyone that experiences stress.

About Our Facilitator

Nichole Linebaugh is passionate about safety and health. She has been working in the occupational safety and health field for just over 10 years and currently holding the Associate Safety Professional (ASP) designation with the Bureau of Certified Safety Professionals and working at FCC (Indiana) in Portland, IN. Nichole is also a yoga practitioner and a 500-hour yoga teacher. She is always continuing to learn and grow in health and wellness and works with private yoga clients and building her business Nurturing Rose Yoga. She helps to guide individuals find the right tools to work through everyday stress and anxiety. With working in the safety and health field, Nichole continues to apply yoga techniques and principles to work through everyday stress and stress at work.

Nichole is currently living in Union City, IN with her family and loves to spend time with them and be out in nature.

Is supervision for me?

The transition from frontline employee to supervisor is a big leap.

This program is designed to help participants better understand the roles and responsibilities of supervision. In this interactive course, we will explore the fundamentals of frontline supervision. Participants will examine core elements of supervision such as building trust, managing conflict, and communicating effectively.

At the end of the program both participants and employers will be ready to answer the question “Is supervision for me?”

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All Aboard: Board Leadership in Motion is a three-hour workshop ideal for individuals who have a desire to serve on a not-for-profit board but want to learn more about what serving as a board member entails, and how to find the potential board opportunity that suits their interests and skill sets.

This session is a partnership with the Heart of Indiana United Way and is sponsored in-part by: Stallings Wealth Management.

Participant Takeaways

• An understanding of the roles and responsibilities of a not-for-profit board member
• How to determine board opportunities that match interests, skills, & desired level of commitment
• Guidance on how to be an effective board member
• Insight on how to find potential board member opportunities
• Descriptions of board member opportunities currently available in the area

Who Should Attend?

All Aboard is ideal for individuals who have a desire to serve on a not-for-profit board but want to learn more about what serving as a board member entails and how to find the potential board opportunity that suits their interests and skill sets.

Tuition:

Thanks to our generous sponsors, All Aboard is available for free.

About Our Facilitator:

Our presenter is Dave Sternberg, Senior Partner of the Indianapolis and Ft. Lauderdale based firm of Loring, Sternberg & Associates, provides fundraising and governance consulting services to nonprofits.

Dave Sternberg has been a nonprofit professional since obtaining a bachelor’s degree from The Ohio State University. Today, he is a member of the faculty at the Lilly School of Philanthropy’s Fund Raising School, a BoardSource senior governance consultant, and an independent consultant with Loring, Sternberg and Associates.

For The Fund Raising School, Dave teaches “Developing Annual Sustainability, Principles and Technique of Fundraising” and “Developing Major Gifts,” as well as numerous customized training programs nationally and internationally. As a BoardSource consultant, Dave provides counsel on such topics as strategic planning and fundraising. His clients describe him as a gifted strategist, adept at assessing and identifying solutions for organizational and board challenges, and brutally honest.

He is the only person in America to hold a position with both Board Source and the Fund Raising School.