Paul E. Dinter, Ph.D. brings a strong background in programming around human services in higher education, homeless services and supportive housing operations. Working for non-profit social service and public media concerns, as well as bringing health care management issues to the table, he has written successful foundation and public health service grant proposals as well as multi-media presentations.
Trained in textual interpretation, Dr. Dinter moved into the field of public service bringing ambitious program ideas to life and managing the personnel required to deliver services to inner-city residents, homeless and incarcerated women. He has designed service programs for supportive housing populations and put policies and procedures in place to sustain formerly homeless people in stable housing. In each of these different fields, he has organized service providers, established links with peer organizations, run meetings, facilitated focus groups, and brought quality assurance issues to the fore.
He is the author of several noted books, journal articles, and op-ed pieces in both the NY Times and LA Times and been a popular lecturer in areas of his personal interest as well as copy editor for several best-selling authors. As a founder and first Board Chair of Community Impact at Columbia University, he helped pioneer student service learning when few colleges and universities understood its importance for fostering either students’ intellectual growth or their commitment to society’s greater good, building a Board that has shepherded the organization for over 20 years. E-mail:pauld@dinterconsulting.com.
Dr. Gail Dinter-Gottlieb has served as the President and Vice-Chancellor of Acadia University, Executive Director of the American Society of the University of Haifa, Dean of Arts and Science at Pace University, and Dean of Natural and Social Sciences at Buffalo State College. She has a diploma from the Harvard Management Development Program, and attended the Seminar for New Presidents at Harvard.
While at Acadia, Gail brought the University to the status of the highest ranked primarily undergraduate university in Canada, successfully directed and completed the largest Capitol Campaign in the University’s history, built a Learning Commons and Biology buildings, and developed a new Strategic Plan for the University. In 2005, she was chosen as a recipient of the Top 50 Atlantic CEOs by Atlantic Business magazine.
At the American Society of the University of Haifa, a non-profit fund-raising organization, she was responsible for rebuilding the National Board of Directors and the Advisory Board in Boston. She created a donor base, a strategic plan, a new logo and visual materials..
Working with Dinter Consulting, LLC Gail has conducted a successful search for the Executive Director of the Maisha Foundation, LLC, written grants for federal and New York City funding for child care, youth services, and housing, and prepared a case study for a new football stadium for a multi-campus University.
Gail posts articles on business, education, and non-profit management twice weekly on our Dinter Consulting page on Facebook, and at dinterconsult on Twitter, and blogs at dinterconsulting.wordpress.com.
E-mail: gail@dinterconsulting.com.
An energetic and accomplished Senior Financial Executive with proven record for strategic planning, creative analysis, and team leadership, Louis Girolami brings expertise in developing accurate management and reporting around revenue projections and expense control. Adept at financial and strategic analysis and decision-making, he is versed in identifying and articulating business opportunities and delivering effective solutions to complex problems. His core competencies include financial/control management, management reporting, budget/project development, financial/strategic analysis, financial forecasting, cost analysis, global project management, customer relations, staff motivation and development, and audit.
With over 30 years of diverse finance experience,.he recently recreated and analyzed ten years of financial information for a major international insurance company which resulted in a $9 million favorable impact to income. In the process, he provided senior management with recommendations to improve controls and processes.
Louis has served as Vice President of Finance for SAP America where he acted as a financial representative on strategic organizational initiatives and provided full financial support for the software sales line of business. His responsibilities included improved process efficiency and unit productivity of internal support areas, integrate supply chains of acquired companies ensuring uniformity of processes and success of acquisition, planned, developed and implemented actual to budget reporting processes and key performance indicators. He successfully revamped operational processes and controls resulting in excess of a 1% increase in margins.
In addition, Louis has served as Vice President, Controller and Divisional CFO for several lines of business for JP Morgan where his responsibilities included regulatory reporting, financial statement preparation, presentation to boards of directors, handling of regulatory and external audit examinations, developed liquidity projections and staff management. Earlier, he served as a manager in the audit department of KPMG Peat Marwick and was an Adjunct Faculty member teaching Strategic Management in an Executive MBA Program. Email: lou@dinterconsulting.com.
Yael Gottlieb brings knowledge of international philanthropy and human rights advocacy to the practice. As Human Rights Watch's Director of Global Development Strategy, she is engaged in developing the capacity of the organization’s research and advocacy in India and South Africa. Yael has extensive experience living in South Asia, including time spent as a Rotary International Youth Exchange student in India, and as a William Jefferson Clinton Fellow for Service in India through the American India Foundation. Her work resulted in the launch of a New Delhi-based presence for Human Rights Watch in 2010.
As a Clinton Fellow, Yael worked with Action India, an organization that advocates on behalf of women in urban slums. She developed a strategic plan for the organization, successfully securing grants for its Hapur village program for Muslim women and for it mahila panchayats, or grassroots women's courts.
Her work for nonprofit organizations includes the American India Foundation, Mira Nair's Maisha Foundation for East African filmmakers, for which she recently conducted an impact assessment, volunteering for the American Jewish World Service in El Salvador, and service with the Museum of Jewish Heritage, where she was a Lipper Fellow.
Yael holds a Masters in Public Administration focusing on international nonprofit management and public policy from the Wagner School for Public Service at New York University from which she also obtained her BA in Anthropology, specializing in Middle Eastern and South Asian studies. Email: yael@dinterconsulting.com.
Since serving as Vice President for Student Affairs at Drexel University, Dr. Diana Hackney has been a President and CEO of a non-profit organization, which, during these difficult economic times, generated a strategic plan for the organization's growth, tripled its budget in 5 years, increased grants, staff, donor base, visibility of the brand name, and clients served to 95% of the state's potential. Her fundraising included annual giving, major gifts, internal and external events, moves management, and endowments.
Previously she worked at the University of Massachusetts and University of Charleston, where she developed premier regional student affairs offices, increased revenue over 100% within 2 years in several areas such as auxiliaries, oversaw the conceptual planning and construction of residences halls and student centers, and energized the student body and student government to increase campus participation in student activities, improve retention and generate an alumni/ae base for future fundraising.
A doctoral graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, she also holds a diploma from the Harvard Graduate School of Education in Edcuational Management. She received her M.Ed. from James Madison Univeristy and her B. A. from Madison College in Virginia.
Recently, she successfully lead a new non-profit organization in Rhode Island through its conception and start-up and, within 6 months, had it planning its expansion into other states.
Dr. Hackney specializes in strategic planning, creating and implementing effective processes, fund raising, organization start ups, higher education auxiliaries operations, and Student Affairs. E-mail: diana@dinterconsulting.com.
Ray LaManna specializes in helping organizations maintain and improve employee relations, and provides training and coaching in all aspects of human resources manage ment. Presently a professor of management at the Zicklin School of Business at Baruch College, City University of New York, Ray has served as a member of the graduate faculty of the School of Public Health at New York Medical College, teaching organiza tional theory, human resources, change management and employee relations. Previously, he held the chair of the Business Administration Department at Berkeley College.
Professionally, he served as Director of Human Resources at the Parish of Trinity Church on Wall Street and at Integrated Resources Inc., a diversified financial services firm, where he was responsible for all employee relations, recruitment and compensation functions. In addition, he has held HR positions at both Wells Fargo Bank and JP Morgan Chase.
Ray holds advanced degrees in theology, psychology and adult education and is presently a doctoral candidate in the Adult and Continuing Education program at Teachers College/Columbia University. Active in the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) as national chairperson of its Management Practices committee, he has extensive experience as a guest speaker on HR and management issues and holds certification as a Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR). E-mail: ray@dinterconsulting.com.
As Executive Director at SAP, Dr. Maurizio created and implemented SAP's three-pronged global education strategy: 1) providing a workforce with an emphasis on lowering the total cost of ownership to customers and partners ; 2) developing and delivering innovative curriculum for future business and IT leaders, and 3) engaging in corporate social responsibility through offering education and/or training opportunities in less developed regions both domestically and globally.
She also a key leadership role in the company's Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiative:and collaborated with other senior executives to develop CSR policies and procedures; and developed a value model to demonstrate how the program enhanced SAP's CSR initiative.
Working with Senior Management and a third-party vendor a marketing strategy was developed through the creation of a marketing playbook to educate and train internal personnel about how to present the program externally. Created collateral for SAP sales representatives to use as a value-added tool in their sales efforts. As global director, Dr. Maurizio successfully recruited, hired, trained, and led a team of regional (EMEA, APJ, Americas) directors to implement the program globally. To ensure success of this initiative, it was essential to work collaboratively with the regional directors and their country managers to ensure that the strategic direction of the program remained consistent from country to country and at the same time adhered to all local regulatory requirements. E-mail: amelia@dinterconsulting.com.
'Stash' has a unique combination of experiences that include private business as well as post-secondary education. Her additional experiences as an entrepreneur give her the ability to look at problems as unique challenges for the application of creative thinking. Her education includes multiple graduate degrees and PhD coursework. The disciplines she has studied include kinesiology, cognitive process and movement, information science and user interfaces. Her research includes user interface devices for the frail elderly and video feedback as a movement aquisition facilitator.
'Stash' describes herself as a 'Problem Solver in Street Clothes'. If you would like to discover opportunities for efficiency by analyzing the way you work today or have an 'idea' in your head that you would like to try and develop and determine its viability, you are on the 'street where she lives'. She loves to figure out what makes things work the way they do. This lends itself to process articulation and improvement with an eye on efficiency. She has spent more than 30 years in records management with emphasis on process improvement. Her experiences include information system implementation, process and workflow articulation, turn-around management and continuous quality improvement.
One of the areas of significant experience for Stash is serving as the liaison between functional users and technical staff in IT settings with system implementations as well as day-to-day operations. She has the ability to understand business needs and effectively 'translate' them in ways that make it easier for technical staff to envision the desired outcomes that need to be accomplished. Some call this 'business needs communication'.
She serves as president of a small sporting goods company (Stash Sports) she established in 1981. Today that business provides major league baseball teams and players with patented hand protection as well as custom hand protection solutions. She is the holder of four (4) U.S. Patents. E-mail: stash@dinterconsulting.com.