Ann Donner

Ann Donner Consulting

Too often, strong ideas emerge within organizations that go unexplored because of the demands of day-to-day operations.  Ann Donner works with her clients to bring those concepts to fruition.  A skilled strategist and facilitator, she has more than 20 years of experience of managing complex projects and strategic initiatives for a diverse mix of public, civic, health care, education, social service, and business organizations.

Recent Projects:

 Interim Management

• Interim Administrative Director for the Executive Leadership for Educators for the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) to establish an innovative training program for senior state and district educators with faculty from HGSE, Harvard Business School and the Kennedy School of Government funded by a $5 million Wallace Foundation grant.

 Program Development

• Through SkillWorks, provide technical assistance to three innovative workforce development partnerships: the Health Care Training Institute, Community Health Worker Initiative and Partners in Automotive Career Education

 Project Management

• Project management and program planning for HopeFound in the development and construction of a 32-bed women's Treatment Center and expanded administrative operations at the Lemuel Shattuck Hospital which opened in March of 2007.
• Owner's representative in the development of an expansion plan for the Young Achievers Science and Mathematics School , a city-wide Pilot School in Boston, in collaboration with the community development corporation Urban Edge.

Public Policy and Facilitation

• On behalf of the Massachusetts Workforce Board Association, project management and program planning for the Health Care Workforce Strategy Roundtable, bringing together legislative, workforce, education and health care industry leaders to chart a new course for health care workforce development in the Commonwealth.
• Support the ABC Urban Ring Institutional and Business Committee for A Better City a coalition of Boston's medical, educational, cultural and business communities, working to improve public transportation in a fifteen-mile long corridor ringing Greater Boston.
• Facilitator for the Massachusetts Transportation Investment Coalition, a diverse collaboration of organizations representing business, industry, planning, labor, municipal and enviromental interests working together to increase transportation infrastructure investment.

Consulting areas: Advocacy/ Public Policy; Board Development/ Governance; Business Planning; Capacity Building; Collaboration/ Strategic Alliances; Facilitation; Interim Executive Services; Interim Manager/ Program Director Services; Leadership Development/ Executive Coaching; Organizational Development; Program Development/ Evaluation; Project Management; Strategic Planning

Focus areas: Community Development/ Improvement; Economic Development; Education; Health Care; Transportation

Phone: 617-527-4337

Fax:

457 Waltham Street
West Newton, MA 02465

http://www.anndonner.com

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