23 Skill-Building Sessions over the 5-1/2 days will be facilitated by Best Practices Leaders – including Nonprofit Management professors from top universities and leadership and communication gurus from around the United States. The following Best Practices Leaders have already committed to facilitate skill-building sessions in upcoming ECPNLs.

Alan R. Andreasen- is Professor of Marketing at the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University and Executive Director of the Social Marketing Institute. Dr. Andreasen is a specialist in consumer behavior and a world leader in the application of marketing to nonprofit organizations, social marketing, and the market problems of disadvantaged consumers. He is the author or editor of seventeen books and numerous monographs.
Alan will be teaching the following session:

Chuck Bean - Executive Director for The Nonprofit Roundtable of Greater Washington.
Chuck will be teaching the following session:

 

Christine Letts - Associate Dean for Executive Education and the Rita E. Hauser Lecturer in the Practice of Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
Christine will be teaching the following sessions: 

Anthony J. Mayo - a Lecturer in the Organizational Behavior unit and is the Director of the Leadership Initiative at Harvard Business School.  The Leadership Initiative is an interdisciplinary center that strives to serve as a catalyst for cutting-edge research and course development on leadership.  He is the co-author of In Their Time; The Greatest Business Leaders of the 20th Century, which was released in October 2005 by HBS Press and is the culmination of several years of study on context-based leadership.  He is also the co-author of Paths to Power: How Insiders and Outsiders Shaped American Business Leadership (released in January 2007 by
HBS Press).

Anthony will be teaching the following sessions:

Lynda S. Ramirez-Blust, CPA and PMP - Lynda S. Ramirez-Blust is owner of LSRB Consulting LLC and is committed to building the financial management, accounting, and governance acumen and capacity of nonprofit board members, management teams, staff, and volunteers. She accomplishes this through the development and delivery of training to groups of nonprofit leaders, facilitation of finance team retreats, and direct assistance on finance and accounting related matters including audit preparation, budgeting, and keeping the books. Lynda has over 13 years of experience working with nonprofit organizations in various capacities including board member, treasurer, CFO, external auditor, consultant,
and volunteer.

Lynda will be teaching the following sessions:

William Ryan- William Ryan is the Director of the Nonprofit Governance and Accountability Project, a joint project of Harvard Law School and The Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Harvard University.
William will be teaching the following sessions:

Michael J. Worth - Professor of Nonprofit Management in the School of Public Policy and Public Administration at The George Washington University. He teaches graduate courses on Governing and Managing Nonprofit Organizations, Managing Fund Raising and Philanthropy, Nonprofit Enterprise, and Managing Nonprofit Boards.

Michael will be teaching the following session:

Ingrid Busch - Ingrid Busch brings an extensive background in strategic and tactical marketing executions for her role as corporate liaison for MarketSphere Consulting.

Ingrid will be teaching the following session:

Tangie Newborn - Executive Director and CEO for the Alliance for Nonprofit Management.