Board Leadership Training Series Faculty

Jason Alexander is a senior partner at Capacity for Change, LLC, which provides management consulting to nonprofits. As both a consultant and facilitator, he emphasizes strategies and ideas that improve performance, strengthen decision-making, foster collaboration, and promote accountability. He has served as a management, planning and development consultant for nonprofits, state and local government agencies, consortia, foundations, and grassroots organizations. He has an MA in Public Policy and Urban Affairs from the University of Delaware and a BA from the College of the Holy Cross.

David Grant, President and CEO of the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, joined Dodge in 1998. From 1994 to 1998 he was a national consultant to schools and leader of workshops on topics of curriculum and program design, professional development, assessment practices and school culture. In 1983, David along with his wife, Nancy Boyd Grant, co-founded The Mountain School of Milton Academy, a semester-long, residential environmental studies program in Vermont for high school juniors. He was co-director of the school for 11 years. David holds an MA in American Studies from the University of Michigan and graduated from Princeton University with an A.B. in English.

Laura Otten, Ph.D. has been the director of The Nonprofit Center at La Salle University's School of Business since 2001. She began her affiliation with The Nonprofit Center shortly after it was formed in the early 1980s, working as a consultant and trainer, primarily in the areas of Board development, strategic planning and program evaluation, and she continues to play these roles in addition to providing direction and leadership to The Nonprofit Center's educational, consulting, and leadership development programs. She is a national expert in numerous aspects of nonprofit management and governance. She earned her MA and Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania and her BA from Sarah Lawrence College.

Kathy Reilly is the Finance Director for the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends.  Prior to working at Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, Ms. Reilly held the position of Finance Director at Big Sisters of Philadelphia, Inc. and MEND (a nonprofit housing agency in New Jersey). She was the Education Coordinator for the Lutheran Settlement House Women’s Program. She is a published author, a frequent presenter of financial topics, and engages in numerous volunteer activities.  Ms. Reilly received her MBA from the Executive MBA program at Temple University, her M.Ed. from Eastern Washington University, and her BA from SUNY at Buffalo.

Allison Trimarco is the founder of Consulting for Nonprofits, which works with nonprofit organizations of all types to increase their management capacity. Her practice focuses on fundraising, communications, strategic planning, and Board development projects. Prior to beginning her consulting practice, she worked for a wide range of nonprofit organizations, including libraries, public television, theatre, and the financial services industry. She earned her MA in Arts Management at Carnegie Mellon University and her BA in Theatre at Smith College.