A consultancy I pioneered to locate, leverage, and scale high impact social ventures. (US, Canada, Africa, France)
What follows is a sample of my engagements (click on titles to learn more):...
Strategic Advisory to IMANA (Islamic Medical Association of North America)
Providing strategic consultancy services to the 50-year-old network association of 5000 Muslim physicians and healthcare professionals in the United States, including strategic planning, organizational vision/mission renewal, leadership training of staff and board, new org structure & bylaws, and development & fundraising plan and planning for next level of performance. ...
Design, manufacture, and commercialization of high social impact renewable energy products for emerging markets. (Accra, Ghana)
Selected Accomplishments:
- Provided strategic direction resulting in launch of Point Innovate in Ghana.
- Strategy, leadership and program assessment and advisory.
Water solution implementers & social business creation in Central African Republic
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER – 2014 TO PRESENT CHIEF OPERATIONS OFFICER - 2010 TO 2014 SENIOR CONSULTANT (DEVELOPMENT & FUNDRAISING) - 2009 TO 2010
Selected Accomplishments:
- Incubated the Central African Republic’s first well drilling business. Brokered / Managed over $US 20 M of water projects in CAR.
- Built / Managed the country’s only enterprise-based water sustainability business, servicing 1000 water points at over 90% pump functionality rates.
Matt Damon’s water charity created to provide funding to water solution provider NGOs in Africa. (Zionsville, Indiana)
Selected Accomplishments:
- $4.75 Million raised, $3 Million in partner matches, for a total of $7.75 Million in water projects in Africa.
- Partnered for roughly 500 water projects in 7 different African countries benefiting hundreds of thousands of people.
- Oversaw the ($1.75 Million) Millennium Village in Toya, Mali with Earth Institute’s Millennium Promise.
A Canadian organization focused on African development through the creation of a fair-trade medicinal plant industry. (Montréal, Qc.)
Selected Accomplishments:
- Member of the BDA Foundation board that included the Rt. Hon. Joe Clark, former Prime Minister of Canada, and M. Réjean Frenette, Canadian Ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Congo.
- Won first prize at the SME Innovation Competition for the BDA Foundation’s “Triple Bottom Line” innovative business model.
- Launched the first-ever African medicinal plant agri-business training program in partnership with the Institut Supérieure Agro-Vétérinaire and the University of Kinshasa in DRC.
A USAID funded global graduate Masters Degree in International Development. (Global)
Selected Accomplishments:
- Teaching courses for NGO managers seeking graduate degrees from literally around the world, at sites located in Italy, France, Chile, South Africa, Kenya, Ghana, Canada, United States, and Rwanda.
- Mentor international student’s thesis projects on various global NGO challenges
The largest nonprofit research and training center in the United States. (Indianapolis, Indiana)
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, LAKE INSTITUTE VISITING FACULTY, THE SCHOOL OF PHILANTHROPY ADJUNCT FACULTY, SCHOOL OF PUBLIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL AFFAIRS, INDIANA UNIVERSITY PURDUE UNIVERSITY AT INDIANAPOLIS (IUPUI)
Selected Accomplishments:
- Earned PhD in Philanthropic Studies.
- Oversight of strategic plan for the Institute and the US$ 8 Million endowment.
- Manager of Institute’s Board of Advisors, National Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, and Indiana University Lake Scholar program. Speak and lead training sessions on philanthropy nationally and internationally.
- Quoted in the Wall Street Journal, Cairn’s Chicago Business, and Albany NY Business Weekly.