2008 ELPNO Faculty Team
Below is the 2008 program's extraordinary team of nonprofit sector thought leaders and renowned academics. Drawn from the southeast and throughout the United States, they scrupulously prepared highly interactive and informative sessions in their respective areas of expertise, as well as serve as panelist and/or session facilitators.
Dr. John Bare
John is Vice President for Strategic Planning and Evaluation with the Arthur M. Blank Foundation. Prior to joining the Blank Foundation, he served as Director of Planning and Evaluation at the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, writer and Editor for the Education Statistics Services Institute of the American Institutes for Research, and as a columnist with the Chapel Hill, N.C., Herald-Sun.
He holds doctorate and master's degrees in mass communication research from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. John is a board member of Grantmakers for Effective Organizations and an advisory board member of the Evaluation Roundtable.
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Dr. John Bryson
John is Professor of Planning and Public Affairs, and Associate Dean for Research and Centers, at the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota. John holds both a doctorate and master's degree in urban regional planning and an M.A. degree in public policy and administration from the University of Wisconsin. He also has a bachelor's degree in economics from Cornell University.
His teaching, research and public service interests include: strategic management for public and nonprofit organizations, public leadership, design of participation processes, organizational theory, design, behavior, development and change, and project planning theory and practice.
The author of numerous books and articles, he has received the Distinguished Research Award given by the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration and the American Society for Public Administration. He is also a Fellow for the National Academy of Public Administration.
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Ann Cramer
Ann is Director for IBM Corporate Citizenship and Corporate Affairs for North America. She graduated from Salem College in Winston-Salem, N.C. with a degree in mathematics. Ann currently serves on the United Way of America's National Corporate Leaders Council, the Center for Corporate Citizenship Advisory Council at Boston College, and she chairs the Council on Foundations Corporate Committee. She also chairs the Governor's Workforce Development Task Force and Communities in Schools Georgia, serves on the Woodruff Art Center and Atlanta Symphony Orchestra boards, and is past chair of the Georgia Partnership for Excellence in Education, Voices for Georgia's Children, the United Way of Metropolitan Atlanta, Leadership Atlanta, the Alliance Theater, Georgia Shakespeare Festival and past president of the Junior League of Atlanta.
Ann was awarded the Legacy of Leadership Award from Leadership Atlanta, the Shining Star Award for the Atlanta Women's Foundation, the first Narrowing the Digital Divide Award, the Andrew Young Public Policy and Faith Award, the Urban League's 2000 Distinguished Community Service Award, the Lifetime Achievement in the Arts, Outstanding Achievement in Child Advocacy, and she received the 1988 11-Alive Community Service Award and 1983 Georgia Volunteer of the Year Award.
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Dr. Helene Gayle
Helene is currently President and CEO of CARE, Inc., a premier, international humanitarian poverty-fighting organization. Prior to that, she was a senior executive with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, overseeing an HIV, TB and Reproductive Health Programs portfolio of approximately $1.5 billion dollars in grants. Prior to that, Helene served for nearly 20 years at the national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, where she was Director of CDC's National Center for HIV, STD and TB Prevention.
Helene has received dozens of awards, published numerous articles on public health, and serves on more than 10 boards of directors of nonprofit organizations and universities. She received her B.A. from Barnard College-Columbia University, her M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania and her M.P.H. from the John's Hopkins University. She also worked for 2 years with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and has taught courses at Emory University's School of Medicine and the University of Washington School of Public Health.
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Dr. Janet Greenlee
Janet is Associate Professor in the School of Business Administration at the University of Dayton. She is a CPA, and earned her doctorate degree in accounting from West Virginia University, an M.B.A. from the University of California at Los Angeles, a master of social work from West Virginia University and a bachelor's degree from Ohio State University.
Prior to joining the University of Dayton, she was an Associate Professor at Pennsylvania State University at Harrisburg. She has held various positions with for-profit and nonprofit organizations, including Director, Russian Resettlement Program and Staff Analyst with Arthur Andersen and Co. Her primary research interest is in the area of nonprofit organizations, specifically the impact of information and fraud on the sector. Her teaching areas include: financial accounting, fraud examination and accounting information systems.
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Virginia Hodgkinson
Virginia is Adjunct Professor of public policy at Georgetown University. Previously she was Director and Founder of the Center of Public and Nonprofit Leadership and the Center of Democracy and Civil Society at Georgetown University. She also served as founding Vice President of Research at Independent Sector and was a founder and Director of the National Center for Charitable Statistics.
She serves and has served on numerous boards and advisory committees of nonprofit organizations and foundations, and is author and co-author of numerous articles and research reports.
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Deon Locklin
Deon is Director of the Public Performance and Management Group and Adjunct Faculty member in Georgia State University's Department of Public Administration and Urban Studies. She brings extensive experience delivering technical assistance, executive coaching, instruction and applied research within the public sector. During her 15 years with GSU, she has created and managed numerous development programs for emerging leaders in nonprofit organizations and state agencies. In her current role, Deon focuses on building organizational and leadership capacity within the public sector.
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Trinita Logue
Trinita is the founding President and CEO of the Illinois Facilities Fund (IFF), a nonprofit community development financial institution with assets in excess of $100 million dollars, that provides real estate finance, development and consulting to nonprofits in Illinois, Missouri, Iowa and Wisconsin.
She serves as a director of First Nonprofit Trust Companies, a member of Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management Public and Nonprofit Advisory Committee, a director and member of the executive committee of the Donors Forum of Chicago, a member of the Attorney General’s Charitable Advisory Committee, a member of the Governor’s Early Learning Council and a member of The Chicago Network.
In past roles, Trinita was Assistant Director, Chicago Community Trust, Director of the City of Chicago’s North Loop Theater District Project, and Executive Director, Arts Council of Jacksonville, Fla.
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Dr. Mike Mescon
Mike is Dean Emeritus of Georgia State University's College of Business Administration, where he held the Bernard B. and Eugenia A. Ramsey Chair of Private Enterprise, the first such chair established in the world. He also helped start the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies.
Mike received an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from the College of Charleston and an Honorary Doctorate of Private Enterprise from The Citadel, where he also holds a visiting Chaired Professorship. He received his Ph.D. from New York University and his M.Ed. and A.B. from the University of Miami.
Mike is the author of over 300 articles and books, including Business Today-the most successful introductory business textbook in the United States. He addresses hundreds of organizations, including both profit and nonprofit, and government groups and trade associations on a variety of management related topics. He is world renowned for his belief in private enterprise as people's best opportunity for personal fulfillment and success, and has established chairs of private enterprise around the world.
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Dr. Harvey K. Newman
Harvey is Professor and Director of Education Programs, Nonprofit Studies Program, Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University. He organized the Nonprofit Studies Program in 1975. His research interests include: economic development organizations and faith-based nonprofits. He has served on a variety of boards of nonprofit organizations.
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John O’Kane
John is Senior Vice President and Campaign Director at Coxe Curry & Associates. In over 35 years of working with the nonprofit sector, he has had experience with personnel management, organizational development, training, consulting and fund raising, including serving as Vice President of Human Resources with United Way of Metropolitan Atlanta, and Executive Director of the Mental Health Association of Metropolitan Atlanta.
He is a frequent lecturer, trainer, consultant and writer on topics related to nonprofit management and fundraising. He is distinguished professor and a member of the Nonprofit Program Advisory Committee at the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University. John serves on numerous nonprofit boards. He earned his M.A. degree from Washington University and B.S. degree from Marian College.
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Sam Pettway
Sam is founding Director of BoardWalk Consulting, a firm committed to "building strong foundations for nonprofits." Since 1977, he has advised leadership teams, from start-ups to mature multinationals, both for-profit and nonprofit, including national associations, regional foundations and local nonprofits of many kinds.
Prior to founding BoardWalk, Sam spent 25 years in board recruitment and executive search, principally with two global consulting firms: Spencer Stuart-the world leader in board recruitment, and Egon Zehnder International, for which he opened and built the Atlanta office. Sam has served as a board member of the American Running Association, the Atlanta Police Foundation, the American Marketing Association Foundation, the Georgia Center for Nonprofits, Theatrical Outfit, and Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Virginia. A US Navy veteran, Sam holds a B.A. degree from the University of Virginia and an M.B.A. degree from the Harvard Business School.
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Dr. Edward L. Queen
Edward directs leadership education and teaches applied and professional ethics at the Emory University Center for Ethics. A former Lilly Endowment program officer and senior research scholar at the I. U. Center on Philanthropy, Edward is the lead author and Editor of "Serving those in Need: Managing Faith-based Service Organizations," and Editor of Philanthropy in the World's Traditions.
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Dr. Janet Rechtman
Janet is founder of Rechtman Consulting Group, a consultancy that specializes in helping nonprofit and community-based leaders embrace the challenges of internal and external collaboration.
With a background in advertising and marketing, Janet has more than 25 years of experience providing training and technical assistance in the areas of strategic planning and implementation, empowerment evaluation and marketing and internal communications. The Southeastern Association of Facilitators named her "Facilitator of the Year" for 2004.
Janet has a B.A. from Emory University in Atlanta, an M.S. from York University in Toronto, Ontario and her Ph.D. from the Leadership and Change Program at Antioch University, Yellow Springs, Ohio (where her research focused on the role of the nonprofit executive director). She was recently invited to join the faculty of the Fanning Institute at the University of Georgia. As a volunteer, she currently is Chair of the Board of the Foxfire Fund, and is a member of the YWCA Academy of Women Achievers and Leadership Atlanta.
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Dr. Peter Topping
Peter is Associate Professor in organization and management at the Roberto C. Goizueta Business School at Emory University. His teaching interests include: leadership, organizational change, organizational behavior, human resource development, cross cultural management, collaborative negotiations and strategic, computer-driven business simulations.
He has served as both a human resource development consultant and designer of customized executive development programs for a broad range of client companies, including The Home Depot, Coca-Cola, InterContinental Hotels Group, the Mayo Clinic, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Emory Health Sciences and the Medical University of South Carolina. As a guest lecturer, management consultant and executive coach, his clients have included CARE International, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, the DeKalb County Public Schools (Atlanta) and the Tennessee Valley Authority.
He has authored many articles and his most recent book is Managerial Leadership (2002). Peter has served on numerous nonprofit boards and conducted many strategy retreats for boards and executive staff over the past 25 years.
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Dr. Dennis R. Young
Dennis is Bernard B. and Eugenia A. Ramsey Professor of Private Enterprise and Director of the Nonprofit Studies Program at the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University. He also is President of the National Center on Nonprofit Enterprise and founding Editor of the journal-Nonprofit Management and Leadership. His research interests include the management and economics of nonprofit organizations.
His recent books include The Music of Management: Applying Organization Theory (2004), Wise Economic Decision-Making in Uncertain Times: Using Nonprofit Resources Effectively (2006) and Financing Nonprofits: Putting Theory into Practice (2006).