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Nancy Alexander’s Qualifications

Education • Certifications • Local & national Nonprofit leadership • Speaking • Writing

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Education

  • BA (Sociology), MBA, Yale University

  • MA (Women’s Studies), Southern Connecticut State University

  • PhD studies (Religious Studies), Lancaster University, U.K.

  • Coaching certification, Columbia University

 

Certifications

  • The 25th lifetime-tenured Certified Master Facilitator™ (the highest credential in the facilitation field) in the world

  • Columbia University-certified executive and organizational coach

  • First coach in the U.S. to earn the Diploma in Systemic Team Coaching from the Academy of Executive Coaching, U.K.

  • Member of the Bregman Partners coaching team, led by Peter Bregman, a Marshall Goldsmith 100 Coach and Thinkers 50 #1 executive coach in the world

  • BoardSource-certified nonprofit board consultant

  • Theory of Change facilitator

  • Coaching tools:
    -EQ-i 2.0 and EQ-i 360-Emotional Intelligence Inventory
    -NBI-measure of thinking preferences
    -Team Connect 360-team diagnostic tool

  • Trained mediator

  • Community Leadership Program for civic and nonprofit leaders

  • Educare Unlearning Institute:
    -Living on Purpose
    -Unlearning Paths to Presence
    -Applying the Enneagram

  • ArtEquity: National Board Training in equity for arts boards members

  • OpEd Project Public Voices Fellow

 

Local & National Nonprofit Leadership

  • Vice-chair, Long Wharf Theatre board; Strategy Committee chair; Equity, Diversion, and Inclusion committee co-chair

  • Vice-chair, Dwight Hall at Yale; led the organization’s first strategic plan

  • First vice-chair of the Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation board, with founder and chair Beverly Willis

  • Chair, Community Fund for Women and Girls of Greater New Haven board; Grants Committee chair. Led the fund through a major expansion of its mission, resources, and impact and the transformation of its grant-making process and criteria.

  • Co-chair, record-breaking $76 million campaign for Emma Willard School

 

“If our sister organizations had had a Nancy they would have gotten their plans done. Everyone needs a Nancy.”
-Director of Development

Speaking

  • Presentations on philanthropy, social change, equity/diversity/inclusion, and women and the sacred at international and national conventions and summits including the American Institute of Architects, Blackbaud Conference on Philanthropy, and Audacia Global Forum on Girls Education

  • Foundation, association, and university panels, seminars, and speeches, including the Foundation for the Carolinas, Association of Independent Schools of Greater Washington, Yale School of Architecture, University of Connecticut, and Emma Willard School

  • Extensive radio, newspaper, magazine, and book interviews and podcasts

 
 
 

Writing

  • American Institute of Architects Guides for Equitable Practice, co-author, 2018-2019

  • “Here’s How I Found One Woman Missing from History,” Women’s eNews, 2015

  • “‘Being Spacious in Myself’: Establishing and Holding the Coaching Space,” 2014

  • “The Ultimate within the midst of life”: Theorizing Women’s Sacred Space, MA Thesis, 2008

  • “Micro-lending.” Encyclopedia of Gender and Society. Sage Publications, 2008

 

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