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President's and CEO's Biography

Mindy Lubar Price
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 non-profit sector.   Mindy has an extensive background in leadership roles in non-profit 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 is directing 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 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 non-profits 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.

Curriculum Vitae

• Leading Transitions LLC
  President & CEO
  Milwaukee, Wisconsin
  2002 - present

Executive Transition Initiative
  Program Director
  Milwaukee, Wisconsin
  2005 - Present

• Aurora Sinai Medical Center
  Director of Philanthropy
  Milwaukee, Wisconsin
  1999 - 2002

Member, Philanthropy Strategic Planning Committee, Aurora Health Care (AHC)
Member, Grants Management Group, AHC
Member, Innovation Strategies Team, AHC
Member, Task Force on Domestic Violence, AHC
Member, Planning Committees for Programs of UW-Medical School, AHC
Member, Senior Leadership Team, Aurora Sinai Medical Center (ASMC)
Staff Chair, Steering Committee of Wisconsin Parkinson's Institute Board of Directors, ASMC
Co-Founder, Healing Center for sexual assault survivors, ASMC
Liaison, Masonic Diagnostic Center Board, ASMC
Co-Chair, Employee Partnership Campaign, ASMC
Member, Spiritual Care and Health Council, ASMC
Staff Representative, History on the Hospitals Committee, ASMC

• The Alliance for Children and Families
  formerly Family Service America, Inc.
  Director, Member Relations and Executive Search
  Member Relations Coordinator
  Public Inquiry Specialist
  Milwaukee, Wisconsin
  1995 - 1999

  • Developed and managed international executive recruitment service within organization
  • Author, The Nonprofit Guide to Executive Search
  • Created and implemented member relations and retention programs
  • Integrated new member service philosophies and practices into all aspects of organization
  • Tracked national trends in non-profit management and built related consultation database
  • Initiated and facilitated innovative partnerships with other national associations

• United Cerebral Palsy of Southeastern Wisconsin
  Milwaukee, Wisconsin
  1994 - 1995

  • Developed communication and fund development strategies through supervision of volunteer-driven, televised telethons, telephone campaigns and special events

• Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin
  Milwaukee, Wisconsin
  1993 - 1994

  • Monitored quality control measures and clinical staff performance; directed patient care

• Brigham and Women's Hospital - Harvard Medical School
  Boston, Massachusetts
  1991 - 1993


Academic Achievement

University of Wisconsin
Madison, Wisconsin
B.A., Sociology

Future Milwaukee
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Graduate, annual community leadership academy - by nomination

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