| The Center relies on a core group of expert instructors to teach our seminars and Certificate Program sessions.
Nonprofit Leadership Certificate Program Instructors:
Nonprofit Management Cerfiticate Program Instructors:
Public Seminar Instructors:
William A. Albright, CPA
Mr. Albright has more than 30 years experience and is currently Principal with Albright, Hill & Sumpter, PC. He earned his BBA from the University of Texas at Arlington (1976) and has national firm accounting experience (1979 – 1980). He is the Former Nonprofit Director with Davis Clark & Company CPAs.
He is a long-time volunteer instructor/speaker and holds various directorships. He has experience as a United Way Stewardship volunteer and currently services as the President of the Dallas Fort Worth International Chaplaincy.
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Nadine Bell
Nadine Bell, the President of The Burrell Group, is an organizational effectiveness consultant and coach specializing in conflict transformation, change management, and strategic and action planning. For over twenty years Nadine has facilitated operations to collaboratively plan projects, expand creative problem solving, enhance productivity and positively impact the bottom line.
Her customized interventions are built around participatory processes that create strategic alliances, develop consensus, build trust, and maintain effective communications. Nadine works with stakeholders to develop a shared vision and commitment to operating principles that both prevent problems and provide the means to resolve conflict. She assists management in creating excellence in its leadership by developing skills to manage change and transitions, plan strategically, and deal with difficult behaviors and situations. Her clients include Fortune 500 companies and businesses in the engineering, manufacturing, finance, legal, health care, service, and transportation arenas as well as educational institutions, municipalities, not-for-profits and the United Nations.
An award winning speaker, seminar leader and keynoter, Nadine is a Past Chair of the International Association of Facilitators. She earned her Bachelors and Masters Degrees from the University of Michigan.
An experienced facilitator, trained mediator and mentor trainer of the Technology of Participation Group Facilitation Methods, Nadine is the only facilitator to hold the Certified Professional Facilitator, Certified Master Facilitator and Certified ToP Facilitator designations and she assess facilitator candidates for all three certifications globally.
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Tracy Brown
Tracy Brown is the author of "71 Ways to Demonstrate Commitment to Diversity," "Breaking the Barrier of Bias" and “Diagnosis: Diversity.” Since 1991 she has worked with clients that range from well-known Fortune 50 companies to community-based non-profit organizations.
She is a member of the elite network of consultants certified to deliver the Reina Model on Trust & Betrayal in the Workplace. (Fewer than 75 external consultants worldwide are certified to diagnose and design interventions using the assessment instruments and tools related to this model.) Tracy is also an authorized distributor of the Giraffe & Elephant Fable video and other Roosevelt Thomas Products.
Tracy is a graduate of Ottawa University who pursued advanced studies at Northern Illinois University and completed the Executive Program at Stanford University. She climbed the corporate ladder and became a respected Human Resources executive before building a successful business.
In addition to appearances on local radio and television programs, she has been interviewed or featured in Money Magazine, Texas Business Monthly, HR Magazine, Heart & Soul, Florida Today and many other publications or broadcast media outlets. Tracy has served on the Board for more than a dozen community-based organizations and professional associations. She is a member of the Advisory Board for the Linkage Summit on Leading Diversity. And, in 2007 and 2008 she will serve as the national President for the National Association for African Americans in Human Resources (www.naaahr.org).
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Carol Clyde, Ph.D.
Carol joined Southern Methodist University as the Director of Leadership and Community Involvement in July of 2003. Carol was previously the Director of Internships and an Assistant Professor at Lynn University in Boca Raton, Florida. Carol has worked in higher education as an instructor, developing community service programs, directing internship initiatives, and served for a year as an AmeriCorps member.
In the nonprofit sector, Carol has been involved as a volunteer with a number of agencies and worked as a staff member for more than five years in the field of Domestic Violence. She is an instructor with the SMU School of Education and Human Development, teaching courses in Leadership Theory and Civic Leadership. Carol works as a facilitator for the Key Leader program of Kiwanis International, where she works with high school students in developing their leadership skills.
She attended college at Radford University and did graduate work at The College of William and Mary and Florida Atlantic University. Carol's hometown is Cave Creek, Arizona.
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Nancy B. Dent, Ph.D.
Nancy is the Executive Director of the Foundation for EXXcellence in Women’s Health, an organization dedicated to improving women’s health care through the development of innovations in education, research and technology. In her current role, she is charged with all aspects of establishing a new women’s health care foundation.
Prior to joining the foundation, which is based in Dallas, Nancy served as an independent fundraising consultant for the San Antonio Symphony Orchestra. Her background in resource development for institutions of higher learning includes stints as the Director of Development for the School of Medicine at the UT Health Science Center at San Antonio. She also served as Executive Director for the El Paso Community College Foundation, and spent six years as a development officer for New Mexico State University in Las Cruces.
She holds an MA and a doctorate from that university, where she researched and wrote her dissertation in the area of women and philanthropy. Her undergraduate degree is from SMU.
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Kim Davey Eisner
Kim Eisner has been active in the nonprofit management sector for 24 years. She has worked as a Board member, a staff member, and an executive coach as well as an outside consultant.
As an independent consultant, Kim has assisted north Texas and national organizations with governance strategies, board structure and composition, strategic planning, marketing, financial planning, volunteer development, legal document review and revision, and advice on submissions to the IRS.
As a Board member, she has been directly involved in financial planning and budgeting, nominations, long range planning, fundraising, site selection, employee issues, and employee evaluation revisions. Her past business experience from marketing and sales to business owner brings diverse skills and perspectives.
Kim Eisner is a Marketing graduate of the University of Arkansas and an MBA graduate of SMU. She instructed an MBA class at SMU on management consulting (The Business Clinic) and has attended seminars on Nonprofit Legal Issues at the Texas School of Law and seminars/workshops on nonprofit governance, management and collaboration.
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Ida Hassler
Ida Hassler has been a part of youth-serving agencies and boards in the Dallas area for over 30 years. She has served on the board of Girls’ Adventure Trails, the Creative Learning Center, and Tejas Girl Scout Council, and chaired the board of Our Friends’ Place.
She has been a volunteer for the Center for Nonprofit Management for over ten years, doing board trainings, fund development workshops, and organizational and fund development audits. She also serves as the National Chapter Financial Management Committee Chairman for her college sorority, responsible for the supervision and mentoring of chapter finances in 146 collegiate chapters, and for the installation of computer-based accounting systems in these chapters throughout the country.
Ida was a Girl Scout Day Camp Director for 14 years, and later supervised the Council’s 18 day camps. She is a nationally certified adult education instructor, curriculum writer and Master Trainer, and a Red Cross First Aid/CPR/AED instructor.
In her spare time Ida is a licensed, instrument-rated pilot and SCUBA diver, and enjoys gardening, sewing and traveling. She and her husband, Ed, have 3 children, 2 daughters and a son, and 6 grandchildren.
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Richie Heidenreich
Richie Heidenreich has been employed for the past 19 years as an Internal Revenue Agent in Exempt Organizations. He began teaching the To Be or Not to Be class at the Center for Nonprofit Management in 1995. His current position is in Revenue of Operations (ROO). Richie is a graduate of Cameron University in Lawton, OK.
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Kristen Howell, LCSW
Kristin is the Director of Clinical and Professional Services at Genesis Women’s Shelter. She has worked with adult victims of domestic violence in both the shelter setting, as well as in the long term counseling center.
She graduated from Baylor University with a Bachelor’s in Social Work and the University of North Carolina with a Master’s in Social Work.
Kristen is active in the Junior League and with First United Methodist Church, Downtown. She is married to Bill Howell, an attorney with Baker Botts, and has two young daughters.
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Cynthia T. Johnson, L.M.S.W.-A.P., CFRE
An independent consultant to private and public institutions, Ms. Johnson is coordinator of Courage & Renewal - North Texas and senior facilitator for the national Center for Courage and Renewal. A long time advocate for children and adults who care for children, she has provided executive leadership to numerous non-profit organizations and community wide initiatives in Tarrant County including Gill Children's Services, Child Study Center and Tarrant County Youth Collaboration.
Cynthia’s areas of emphasis are assisting individuals and groups in making connections between their inner lives and their vocations, community development, leadership development, cross cultural collaboration and fund development.
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Sharon Neal
Sharon Neal has more than twenty years of experience on both sides of the funding desk as a fundraiser and as a grant maker. She has worked as the chief development officer for organizations such as Shelton School, Boys & Girls Clubs of America’s Southwest Region office, The Science Place, Dallas Historical Society and most recently at The Women’s Museum where she had the primary responsibility for raising funds to renovate and open the facility.
As a grant maker she has served as the head of community relations for 7-Eleven, Inc. formerly known as The Southland Corporation, TXU and its family of companies and currently she serves as the director of community relations for Capital One for Texas and Louisiana.
She holds a master’s degree in French from Indiana University; is a CFRE and earned a Certificate in Community Relations from Boston College Carroll School of Management.
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Tom Pearce
President of iLead Consulting & Training, Mr. Pearce is a world class developer of executive talent. As the Vice President of HR and Administration for ARCO China, he supervised 25 people and managed a budget of $8 million. He slashed $2 million from his budget and developed others so effectively that he gained recognition at the highest levels of ARCO. Over the years, his training expertise and his eye for executive talent have earned him invitations to Indonesia, London, Norway, Nigeria, and Dubai to help with their development efforts.
As a trainer, Mr. Pearce has worked with Blockbuster, Mobil, Nortel, British Petroleum, and the Environmental Protection Agency to help each of those organizations develop more versatile leaders. Mr. Pearce is an award winning speaker, and trainer. His firm was recently recognized by Executive Excellence Magazine as one of the top Leadership Development firms in the country.
He has an MBA from Duke University in North Carolina and an undergraduate degree in Communications from William and Mary. In 2004, Mr. Pearce was nominated as the “Volunteer of the Year,” for the City of McKinney for his participation in a variety of community causes.
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Carole V. Rylander, CFRE
With more than 21 years of service in the sector, Ms. Rylander offers customized solutions to challenges experienced by not-for-profit organizations. She makes use of multiple techniques such as hands-on consulting, facilitation, executive coaching and training services to empower board and staff leadership and to create synergy among operational areas. She draws upon any one or a combination of strategies to assist leadership in moving their organization to a new level of productivity and efficiency, thereby achieving greater success in fulfilling their mission.
Ms. Rylander has significant experience with feasibility studies and capital campaigns, major gifts, annual giving, strategic planning, board development and governance, governance and development audits, development planning, program and constituent communications and grantseeking.
Ms. Rylander is a frequent speaker whose highly rated workshops and trainings benefit board and staff leadership as well as corporate executives seeking to be engaged in the not-for-profit sector. Presentation topics include: Strategies for Successful Trustee Leadership, Before Joining a Board…, Fundraising…It’s Not About the Money, Leading Your Leadership to Major Gift Success, Four Keys to Fundraising Success, Managing the Development Office, and The Case Statement Workshop, among others.
She is a past president of the Dallas Chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals, and has held accreditation as a Certified Fund Raising Executive (CFRE) since 1990. Ms. Rylander is a member of the International Association of Facilitators and is a Qualified Trainer with the Institute of Cultural Affairs.
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Susan Saunders, MPA
Susan Saunders, MPA, principal of SGS Solutions, provides consulting services to private family foundations, non-profit organizations and for-profit corporations. Her work focuses on strategic planning, governance and funds development, programs and marketing communications and neutral facilitation. Prior to creating her own firm,
Ms. Saunders served as the Grants Administrator for a large family foundation in Texas. Ms. Saunders started a nonprofit organization leading its operations for the first six years. She served as senior executive for a large international economic development firm based in Washington, D.C. Ms. Saunders consulted on large multi-country projects in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Near East, primarily in the health field. Through her work with public and private sector partners around the world, she led multi-disciplinary teams to complete complex assignments.
Early in her career, Ms. Saunders assisted with the start up of a consulting business in Washington, D.C. She initiated and managed the international division that comprised eighty percent of the firm's business in less than six years. Her first job out of college was in Dhaka, Bangladesh, with an international nongovernmental organization where she was placed in a management capacity after five months of work.
Ms. Saunders is a member of the Association of Fundraising Professionals and the International Association of Facilitators. She serves on the Board of the Association of Philanthropic Counsel. She volunteers as faculty for the Dallas Center for Nonprofit Management. Ms. Saunders earned her B.A. from Mills College in Oakland, California. She received a Masters degree in Public Administration (M.P.A.) from American University in Washington, D.C.
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Michelle Wilde
Michelle Wilde is President of TechNPO Consulting, a consulting firm that helps nonprofits to plan and implement online fundraising, eMarketing and website solutions. Michelle helps organizations to implement the best solution to meet their diverse needs and to expand their fundraising and marketing reach by utilizing internet technologies and best practices.
Michelle has more than 15 years experience in nonprofit, including tenure as a volunteer, on board of directors and as a staff member. Prior to a Director position in nonprofit, Michelle spent 21 years in the high tech industry in a variety of positions in business operations, marketing and consulting.
Michelle is a certified ePhilanthropy Master Trainer from the ePhilanthropy Foundation and has received a Certificate in Nonprofit Management from the Center for Nonprofit Management.
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Nancy C. Wonders
Nancy Wonders Dearing is a Transformational Change coach and consultant whose specialty is bold, innovative and invigorating conversations. She has served as a guide and partner with her clients in their efforts to effect positive and innovative change in their lives and their work environments. She works one on one with organizational executives and their leadership teams in both business and the non-profit sector. Her clients include independent schools, non-profits, and organizations in accounting, manufacturing, health care, consulting, and technology sectors.
Nancy obtained her MS in Counseling Psychology from the University of North Texas and her BBA in Accounting from the University of Wisconsin. Additional education includes facilitator training in the following methodologies: Collaborative Strength Based Planned Change, Strozzi Institute’s Embodied Leadership Coaching Program, Dialogue and Dynamic Dialogue and Visions Training, (a personal approach to multiculturalism). Her work is influenced by the work of David Whyte the corporate poet, Robert Kegan (Harvard University) and Lisa Lahey (Minds at Work) and their innovative adult development and change processes and Parker Palmer, author or Let Your Life Speak and founder of the Courage to Lead organization. Her solid results with “stuck conversations” have been influenced by the work of The Public Conversations Project of Cambridge, MA.
Representative accomplishments include: facilitating The Hockaday School through significant organizational change via a unique Visioning process based on bold and innovative conversations within the school community and creating and teaching a 21st Century Leadership course for University of Texas at Dallas (UTD).
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Sheryl Reid Wylie, CFRE
Sheryl Reid Wylie is the principal of The Wylie Group, a professional consulting firm serving nonprofit organizations in funds development and planning, campaign feasibility studies, campaign management, grant writing and special event assessments. Prior to establishing The Wylie Group in 2002, Ms. Wylie was the Development Director of Bryan’s House, a nationally acclaimed pediatric AIDS program, for over thirteen years.
Ms. Wylie has held accreditation as a Certified Fund Raising Executive (CFRE) for over nine years. She has a board range of experience in all areas of development including capital and endowment campaigns, major gifts, annual fund drives, grantsmanship, special events, corporate giving, direct mail, planned giving, development office management and development software.
Ms. Wylie has served the Dallas philanthropic community in a professional and volunteer capacity for many years. Prior to moving to Dallas in 1978, Ms. Wylie worked for five years in trust departments of banks in New York City and Philadelphia. Ms. Wylie received a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Illinois in Education, a paralegal certificate in estate and trust law from the Institute for Paralegal Training in Philadelphia, and a marketing certificate from Southern Methodist University.
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Kim Young
With almost 30 years experience in marketing, public affairs and media relations in the for-profit and not-for-profit sectors, Kim Young has gained professional perspective and strategic insight from all sides of the desk. Her work as an award-winning communicator is complemented by Kim’s passion for, and hands-on work with evolving technologies that help enable dialogue, build relationships and grow partnerships.
In 2004, Kim started the forest & the trees, to help organizations implement the communications framework necessary to build the partnerships with customers, donors, members and community that are essential today for growth and sustainability.
Kim was an award-winning journalist for statewide and national publications, including Ad Age and ADWEEK, and she has held senior local, statewide, regional and national marketing and communication positions in the commercial airline, economic development, financial services and professional services sectors. She has worked for companies such as Deloitte & Touche and Bank of America, as well as non-profits such as PBS and the BBC, the Texas Commission for the Arts, the Texas Association of Convention and Visitors Bureaus, the Greater Dallas Chamber of Commerce, the Lone Star Emmy Chapter and Empower African Children.
Kim has been an instructor for the Nonprofit Management Certificate program administered by the Dallas Center for Nonprofit Management and Brookhaven College since the program began in 2004. Kim completed Stanford University’s Center for Social Innovation’s Nonprofit Management Institute in 2006.
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