WID Wellness and WID Wisdom Present
Deconstructing Development:
Career Assessment and Job Searching in the Virtual Realm
Wednesday, May 6, 2020
3:00 p.m.
Member: Free
Non-Member: $15
Co-Hosted By:
Yolanda F. Johnson and Jill Slattery
Featured Guest:
Carmel Napolitano
Deconstructing Development is a special series, developed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, to bring the fundraising community direct access to experts in areas important to achieving professional success. Each segment includes an introduction, followed by a 30-minute Q & A interview, allowing the WID community to write in with questions for our experts.
We'll explore how to use the opportunity of this quiet time to assess your career and then continue a successful job search process despite the pandemic.
Featured Guest
Carmel Napolitano - Vice President, New York Office, Lindauer Global
Carmel is a client-focused executive search/talent acquisition professional focusing on the non-profit and philanthropic sectors. Her search completion rate is above average with candidates staying an average of 6 plus years.
She seeks to guide and advise the philanthropic, nonprofit, and public sectors in recruiting senior level positions working to place executives across the nonprofit spectrum including higher education, advocacy, arts & culture, international NGOs, and donor advised funds. Having over 15 years of experience in executive search, her successful placements include CEO/President/Executive Director/Senior Advancement level searches with leading international, national, and New York area associations and nonprofits.
Co-Hosts
Yolanda F. Johnson - President, YFJ Consulting, LLC and President, Women In Development, NY
With more than two decades of experience in the non-profit sector Yolanda F. Johnson has successfully led fundraising operations for a wide range of nonprofit organizations, launching creative event, sponsorship and marketing initiatives that produced new streams of both contributed and earned income. Her fundraising expertise includes securing foundation, corporate, and government funding and cultivating a diverse major gifts portfolio. Yolanda is the President of Women In Development (WID), NY and the President of YFJ Consulting, LLC, which provides fundraising strategy and special event expertise for non-profit community. Yolanda has had an outstanding career as a performing artist, as a composer, as a producer, as an educator, and she has used her background as a performer to become a sought-after fundraising expert. Yolanda was also recently appointed to the Chronicle of Philanthropy Advisory Committee of national leaders in the non-profit sector. Tying together her life as a successful performing artist and a non-profit leader, she developed All the World's A Stage, a special workshop using performance practice for getting what one wants out of fundraising, philanthropy and life. She presents All the World's A Stage to audiences across the country.
Jill Slattery - Director of Principal Gifts for the Americas, London School of Economics Foundation and Member, Women In Development, NY Board of Directors
With 25 years of experience in higher education fundraising Jill Slattery has contributed to major and principal gift programs at Columbia University, the University of Pennsylvania, and the London School of Economics and Political Science. She is a graduate of Hamilton College and the Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs. In addition to her dedication to the development profession Jill enjoys time spent with family, friends, and travel.
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