MANAGEMENT & ORGANIZATION DEVELOPMENT EXPERIENCE:

Executive Director, Community Land Trust Association of West Marin (CLAM), January 2003 – present.

·         Leads and manages all aspects of nonprofit community land trust for affordable housing in Point Reyes, a rural area near San Francisco (part-time position).

Principal, Levine Consulting, 1988 - present.

·      Designed and guided collaborative change efforts in a variety of non-profit, public-, and private-sector organizations that have resulted in agreements among stakeholders of differing perspectives & interests, as well as improved performance, increased efficiency and effectiveness, and transfer of skills enabling clients to undertake further collaborative change efforts on their own.

·      Planned and facilitated meetings and conferences of all types and sizes, enabling participants to map out their desired futures, solve problems, and resolve differences.

·     Coached leaders and managers on how to effectively involve people at all levels of an organization in order to create changes and achieve results that actually get implemented.

·      Developed and conducted training in leadership, meeting facilitation, team effectiveness, collaborative problem solving, conflict resolution, managing change, and non-profit board development.

Senior Consultant, Partner, Managing Director, Project Manager, Interaction Associates, Inc., 1983 - 1988.

·     Provided consulting and training services as described above.

·     Served in management of the company during time of major change.

·      Designed and served as project manager for production of Mastering Meetings for Results, a training program on meeting facilitation, including extensive manual and video.

PRIOR RELATED WORK EXPERIENCE:

Program Coordinator, SolarWork Institute, Office of Appropriate Technology, Governor's Office of Planning and Research, State of California, 1980 - 1982.

·         Facilitated collaborative planning to establish solar energy installer training programs throughout California, involving solar energy business owners, community colleges, community-based organizations, and local government agencies.

Director of Operations, Planning Director, County Program Officer, Central Valley Opportunity Center, Inc., 1978 - 1980.

·         Developed and managed government and foundation-funded programs of over $3 million/year for non-profit agency providing services for farmworkers and their families.  Program areas included: employment and training, childcare, housing rehabilitation, and home weatherization.

PUBLICATIONS:

Strategic Planning in Western Grassroots Conservation Groups: Lessons from the Field, Training Resources for the Environmental Community, 2005. Available at www.trec.org.

Facilitative Teamwork 3: Leadership  (training program and over 200-page manual), co-authored with Mary Gelinas, produced by Gelinas-James, 1990.

The Emperor's New Clothes -- Toward a Dialogue about Telling the Truth in Organizations (presentation and paper), Organization Development Network Conferences (National and Bay Area), 1987.

Mastering Meetings for Results (training program and over 175-page manual), Interaction Associates, Inc., 1986.

Invisible Links to Leadership -- Integrating Individual and Organizational Meaning (presentation and paper) co-authored with Mary Gelinas, Organization Development Network Conferences (National and Bay Area), 1986.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:

Organization Development Network

Alliance for Nonprofit Management

LANGUAGES:

Fluent in Spanish, basic French

EDUCATION:

Master of Sciences, Human Resources and Organizational Development, University of San Francisco, 1983.

Bachelor of Arts, Political Science, Barnard College, Columbia University, 1972, cum laude.  Includes one semester completed at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1971.

Extensive advanced professional training.