Leadership Scope & Impact

Organizational Leadership & Team Complexity

  • 20+ years of progressive leadership across nonprofit, community, education, and organizational environments.

  • 7+ years as COO & Vice President, with responsibility for organizational operations, personnel, governance implementation, policy, compliance, contracts, vendors, and strategic execution.

  • Built Shalom Austin's Disability & Inclusion function from an identified service gap into an established strategic resource supporting four organizational agencies and multiple enterprise-wide priorities.

  • Currently provide organization-wide leadership across a multi-agency nonprofit environment, advising executive leaders and collaborating across departments.

  • Leadership through employees, managers, seasonal personnel, volunteers, AmeriCorps members, interns, and cross-functional teams.

  • Experience building and developing a function rather than simply inheriting an established department.

Financial & Resource Stewardship

  • Directed a $2.8M infrastructure-renovation project as COO/VP.

  • Managed an annual internal budget of $1.7M while advising on external organizational budgets ranging from $113K to $5.2M. Combined budget influence totaled approximately $9.17M, including planning, prioritization, monitoring, compliance, and resource allocation.

  • Experience with budget development, allocation, monitoring, prioritization, and resource alignment.

  • Experience balancing mission priorities, operational constraints, stakeholder needs, and available resources.

Program Design, Growth & Impact

I specialize in the upstream work of program leadership: identifying needs, imagining possibilities, designing systems, aligning resources, building partnerships, establishing measures of success, and continuously improving the model.

  • Built and launched programs in response to identified community and organizational needs.

  • Designed programs from needs identification → concept → planning → resource allocation → implementation → evaluation → refinement.

  • Directed workforce-development programming with measurable outcomes including 71% graduation, 100% employment placement within 30 days, and 80% retention at 120 days.

  • Supported 39% growth in youth program participation over two years while increasing completion from 80.5% to 96%.

  • Launched inclusive youth programming achieving 99% participant/family satisfaction in inaugural series and 82% repeat registration for fall.

  • Developed responsive employment-readiness curriculum and program infrastructure.

  • Experience evaluating programs and modifying design based on participation, satisfaction, outcomes, and stakeholder feedback.

Systems, Strategy & Organizational Development

  • Built a newly established organizational function from an identified service gap into a strategic organizational pillar.

  • Developed policies, processes, frameworks, training, and operational infrastructure to support organizational priorities.

  • Led continuous-improvement efforts across programs and organizational systems.

  • Translated strategic priorities into actionable initiatives, measures, and implementation plans.

  • Experience diagnosing systems that are not working effectively and redesigning them for greater clarity, accessibility, efficiency, and impact.

Stakeholder & Governance Leadership

Much of my leadership work occurs in environments where success depends on aligning people with different responsibilities, priorities, expertise, and sources of authority.

Experience partnering with and advising executive leadership teams, nonprofit boards and committees, elected officials, government agencies, legal counsel, educators, employers, community organizations, funders, donors, volunteers, families, and youth-serving professionals.

Professional Development, Education & Public Speaking

I am at my best when I can translate complex ideas, engage an audience, and move people from understanding to action.

  • Designed and delivered professional development for 200+ professionals last year.

  • Present to audiences of 80+ camp professionals and 120+ educators annually.

  • Developed training on accessibility, disability inclusion, ADA considerations, inclusive practices, and organizational implementation.

  • Designed customized leadership-development workshops, retreats, and executive-learning experiences.

  • Experience translating complex concepts into practical tools for executives, staff, volunteers, educators, and community audiences.

  • BFA Musical Theatre + MEd Special Education — combining formal training in performance, communication, education, and leadership.

Recent speaking and training engagements include: 

  • Destination…Life special education conference, Presenter (13 Austin-area school districts and families, March 2026)

  • Summer Camp Orientation, Guest Trainer (May 2026)

  • Shapes in the Clouds fundraiser, Featured Speaker (May 2026)

  • Multiple kickoff and community engagement events surrounding large-scale international programming, Featured Speaker (fall and winter 2026)

  • West Austin Chamber of Commerce Leading Ladies, Featured Speaker (scheduled November 2026)

  • Educator Inservice for Austin-Area Religious School Educators, Guest Trainer (scheduled November 2026)

  • Early Childhood Program Preschool Staff and Faculty Inservice, Guest Trainer (scheduled December 2026)

Systems, Data, & Responsible Innovation

Experienced in designing and optimizing data-driven operational systems across nonprofit, healthcare, disability, and community-serving environments. Leverage enterprise platforms, CRM and EHR systems, Microsoft 365, project management tools, reporting databases, and emerging AI technologies to improve service delivery, strengthen compliance, support decision-making, and scale organizational effectiveness. Committed to the ethical and responsible use of technology, including contributing foundational guidance that informed executive-level AI governance and policy development while promoting thoughtful adoption of emerging technologies.

Whether developing a new function, launching a program, strengthening operations, or advancing organizational priorities, my work centers on transforming identified needs into sustainable systems, services, and organizational capacity.

Impact by the Numbers

  • 20+ years leadership experience

  • 7+ years as COO & Vice President

  • $9.17M largest cumulative budget influence

  • $2.8M largest infrastructure project directed

  • 4 organizational agencies served through Disability & Inclusion leadership

  • 40+ strategic and community partners

  • 250+ professionals trained annually

  • 39% growth in program participation over two years

  • 100% employment placement for RAISE workforce-development graduates within 30 days

  • 80% employment retention at 120 days