Brian Clapier
Casey Family Programs
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Brian Clapier is the Senior Director for Data Advocacy at Casey Family Programs. Brian works with child welfare systems to build capacity to use data to drive prioritization and decision-making. The Data team analyzes data to track progress and drive change in child welfare outcomes. He leads as well as oversees system-wide data collection, data reporting, and analytic processes. Previously, Brian served as a Policy Fellow with Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago. He was also the Associate Commissioner for Research and Analysis at New York’s ACS and as a Deputy Commissioner at the Philadelphia Department of Human Services. In this role, he developed and oversaw organizational strategic initiatives as well as system-level data reporting and continuous quality improvement processes. [bclapier@casey.org] |
Organizational Agility Advisors
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Jeff Lawrence has served as an advisor to senior executives across multiple sectors for over 25 years. In addition to his experience in the corporate and non-profit sectors, Jeff has taught leadership at Harvard University, Oxford University, the University of Warwick, and Northeastern University. Jeff’s experience in the fields of personal, organizational, and business development help him bring a broad range of capabilities to his advisory work. He is considered a unique talent for his ability to help clients generate new insights and options in the face of even the most vexing situations. [jeff@orgagilityadvisors.com] |
Social Impact Studio
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Jessica Mason is Founder & CEO of The Social Impact Studio, a consulting firm that partners with mission-driven organizations to spur social innovation that creates more equitable, just, and prosperous communities. Jessica uses human-centered design to help organizations confront audacious challenges, build world-class programs, and achieve greater impact. Prior to founding The Social Impact Studio, Jessica worked at the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University where she directed a portfolio of early childhood innovation labs in Latin America and served as the technical expert on innovation methods. [jessica@socialimpact.studio] |
CSSP
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Kristen Weber is the Director of Equity, Inclusion, and Justice at the Center for the Study of Social Policy. In this position, she coordinates a qualitative “institutional analysis” process to consider policies and practices that contribute to racial disparities. She also works on an initiative to support the healthy sexual and identity development of youth in foster care and on teams that monitor federal consent decrees. [kristen.weber@cssp.org] |
Marianne Hughes
Interaction Institute
for Social Change
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Marianne Hughes was the founding executive director of the Interaction Institute for Social Change (IISC) and led the organization for nearly twenty years. She is now working with IISC as a senior consultant while also maintaining an independent consulting practice. Marianne brings to this work a combination of her years of experience as IISC’s executive director; expertise in the design and facilitation of systems change, network building, leadership development, public policy advocacy, and community organizing; a devotion to social justice; and deep faith in the human capacity for goodness to further the work of global transformation. [marianne7117@gmail.com] |
3 Birds Coaching
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Shana is a leadership coach and former nonprofit executive with 20 years of experience driving results in community-based change initiatives. As the Chief Program Officer of PACE Center for Girls from 2014-2017, she led a network of 19 trauma-informed schools for middle and high school girls at risk of entering the juvenile justice system. Previously, she served as Senior Manager at the Harlem Children’s Zone (HCZ), overseeing key cornerstones of their cradle-to-career pipeline – first leading HCZ’s comprehensive early childhood programs, and then heading up their elementary, middle, and high school programs serving more than 4,000 children. She is also an Annie E. Casey Foundation Children and Families Fellow trained in Results-Based Leadership, a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach through the Coaches Training Institute, a certified yoga instructor and yoga therapist, and holds a M.S. in Nonprofit Management from the New School. [shana@3birdscoaching.com] |
New America
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Marina was recently a Public Interest Technology fellow at New America where she is focused on improving the child welfare system. She was most recently the Chief Technology Officer of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, where she built the first agency digital service team, bringing in top technical talent for tours of duty within the agency to help transform how the United States serves and honors its veterans. Prior to working in government, Martin ran the business process re-engineering firm the Type-A Way and wrote the book Business Efficiency for Dummies. [marina@marinamartin.com] |
Spark Learning
for Organizations
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April is the Principal Consultant at Spark Learning for Organizations a Visiting Research Scholar at Brandeis University's Heller School for Social Policy and Management. Dr. Allen has more than a decade of experience using data to drive policy and practice improvements in human service systems, including work as a Data-Driven Practice Advisor at Casey Family Programs and Director of Policy and Planning for the Vermont Department of Children and Families. [april@spark-learn.com] |
Soar Strategies
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Janine is the Principal Coach at Soar Strategies. Soar Strategies is a consulting and coaching firm committed to helping leaders and groups in the social good and corporate sectors to share their strengths, create goals, and achieve their professional as well as personal goals through a collaborative process. Janine was previously held senior leadership roles in the nonprofit sector and was previously the executive director of a public health nonprofit based in Chicago. [janine@soar-strategies.com] |
Leadership Coach
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Jen has been a leadership coach since 2012, and is driven by the desire to help people maximize their impact as leaders; envision and realize career transitions/growth; and identify and work through personal and professional roadblocks. Jen has coached leaders and career-changers at all levels and in many parts of the world, and came to coaching after a long, satisfying career in the NYC nonprofit and philanthropic sectors, where she created strong organizational cultures, facilitating conversations and collaborations, and making sure staff and clients were thriving and learning. [jenschenkel@gmail.com] |
Don'Angelo Bivens
Certified Executive Coach
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Don’Angelo Bivens, MS, PCC is a certified executive coach, speaker and leadership facilitator that has assisted thousands of leaders—from business owners and entrepreneurs to directors and CEOs—to achieve uncommon results. He works with high-performing individuals across geographic regions including North America, Europe, and Australia. For nearly 20 years, Don’Angelo has served as a talent leader, an external consultant, coach, speaker and leadership facilitator. With expertise in organizational psychology and coaching, he has a profound understanding of the thoughts and conversations that drive human behavior and our innate ability to produce results that are of great importance to them. His work requires that leaders and organizations reexamine the conversations that have driven their performance and recalibrate their mindset and actions to be aligned with their aspirations. |
Fostering Change Network
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Fostering Change Network’s expertise in child welfare begins with Founder and CEO Shalita O’Neale, a highly trusted and nationally recognized professional both inside and outside of both social work and foster care circles. In addition to her own experience in the foster care system, Shalita possesses over 13 years’ experience working and advocating for youth and alumni of the foster care system. Shalita is originally from Baltimore, Maryland where she entered kinship care after the death of her mother at age 2, then bounced back and forth between family members before officially entering Maryland’s foster care system at the age of 13. Shalita founded Fostering Change Network, LLC (FCN) in 2012 as a way to use her 13 years’ experience in child welfare training, program development and advocacy to connect young professionals with foster care histories, like herself, through local and national professional networking events such as the Alumni Powerhouse Networking Conferences (APNC) that have taken place in Maryland, California and New York City since 2015. |