A Milwaukee native, Mindy Lubar Price is the President & CEO of Leading Transitions LLC - a firm specializing in providing technical assistance in the areas of executive transition management, succession planning and organizational capacity building to the nonprofit sector. Mindy has an extensive background in leadership roles in nonprofit organizations and associations and facilitates executive transitions locally and across the nation. She has also authored articles, been in the news and lectured nationally on issues related to executive transitions. Mindy coordinated the Milwaukee Leadership Transition Survey and subsequently created and directed the Wisconsin Executive Transition Initiative (ETI) housed at the Greater Milwaukee Foundation. Mindy's current clients have a broad range of service areas including: academia, healthcare, social services, advocacy & public policy, arts and the environment. One of her primary areas of consultation involves working with boards of directors and senior level staff on maximizing growth potential during times of transition and change in an organization's life cycle. Prior to launching Leading Transitions, Mindy was Director of Philanthropy for Aurora Sinai Medical Center where she resurrected a dormant philanthropy program by establishing a strong network of relationships with internal and external constituencies. Before joining Sinai, Mindy was the Director of Member Relations and Executive Search at The Alliance for Children and Families - an international not-for-profit membership trade association. During her tenure at The Alliance, Mindy developed and managed a national executive recruitment service and authored The Nonprofit Guide to Executive Search. Mindy traveled extensively to a wide variety of nonprofits to assess their individual needs and opportunities and recommended plans to assist them. Prior to her position at The Alliance, she was the Community Relations Coordinator for United Cerebral Palsy of Southeastern Wisconsin. Mindy is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an alumna of Future Milwaukee. In 2003 Mindy was named one of 24 "Women of Influence" by The Business Journal , she was featured in the Milwaukee Magazine September 2002 cover story, "35 Faces of the Future" highlighting a "new generation of Milwaukee leaders" and was most recently featured in Milwaukee Magazine's 2006 Charitable Events Guide in its lead story " Training Tomorrow's Leaders." She presently serves on several community advisory committees and gives of her time to many local organizations.
Graduate, Annual Community Leadership Academy - by nomination