Conference Speakers
At the Joint Annual Conference you will hear from nationally renowned leaders from across these sectors. They will share their perspectives on how we can learn from and collaborate with each other to best take on the challenges facing our organizations and our communities.
A sampling of our confirmed featured speakers follows. As we add presenters, we’ll update the speaker biographies’ page, which will have the complete listing of all conference speakers and presenters. So check back often, subscribe to our rss feed and follow us on twitter at MCNandMCF for updates.
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Featured Speakers
Susan Gross is cofounder of Management Assistance Group. She has helped hundreds of groups adjust to change and growth, build strong structures and management, achieve focus, increase impact on the issues they care most about, and gain staying power.
She authored Seven Turning Points: Leading Through Pivotal Transitions in Organizational Life, in which she discusses the points in a nonprofit’s life when it must make broad, fundamental changes in the way it’s structured, managed and led.
Tim Delaney became president and CEO of the National Council of Nonprofits, the network of more than 20,000 members linked together through state nonprofit associations, in July 2008.
He brings unique insights from a career that has included serving as a partner at a large law firm; as Arizona’s solicitor general and chief deputy attorney general; as founder of the Center for Leadership, Ethics and Public Service; and from extensive work with nonprofits in a variety of capacities.
Steve Gunderson is president and CEO of the Council on Foundations, a Washington, D.C.-based association of 2,000 grantmaking foundations and corporations.
He previously worked as senior consultant and managing director of the Washington office of The Greystone Group, a strategic management and communications consulting firm, where his expertise included public policy and serving in a management capacity for clients such as the Republican Main Street Partnership and The Mary Fisher AIDS Fund.
