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About Full Glass
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Nationally recognized as a nonprofit turnaround expert, Laura
Deaton is the founder of Full Glass, a consulting service focused
on building capacity for nonprofit and philanthropic organizations throughout the United States. For over twenty years, Laura has
worked extensively in the nonprofit sector; she also had previous
careers
in healthcare, public relations, and law.
For the last decade, Laura has leveraged her for-profit business skills and
her
nonprofit leadership expertise to help struggling nonprofits successfully
manage major transitions. In just the last five years,
she has guided and led a youth
mentoring program from complete
program closure to a successful
five-county merger, crafted a new
vision and redesigned programs for a local women's organization,
put a struggling symphony orchestra in the black after years of major deficits, and created the infrastructure to allow a new healthcare
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Described as a “one-person, nonprofit SWAT team,” she’s a skilled leader and spokesperson,
with a keen
understanding of the need to run nonprofit organizations
as businesses with goals,
benchmarks and full
accountability and transparency. Laura also has a
strong hands-on
financial, human resource and
operational management approach that creates immediate
and
measurable outcomes for her clients.
As a seasoned strategist and recruiter, she works closely
with Boards of Directors to build strong business
models
that create
the platform for sustainable
success, and then helps recruit and hire the
right long-term
leader to take the organization to its
next level.
A sought-after guest on television and
radio shows, Laura has also been quoted in local and
national
publications including USA Today, the NonProfit Times and the Chronicle of
Philanthropy, where she was the subject of a feature story about her turnaround of a
local Big
Brothers Big Sisters organization in the San Francisco bay area. As a
passionate advocate
for
the growth of the nonprofit sector, she’s also an accomplished
speaker, with recent
speaking
engagements at Institutes and Conferences for the
Association of Fundraising
Professionals,
Blackbaud Corporation, and local community
foundations.
Laura also teaches graduate classes in Nonprofit Management,
and provides ongoing
executive
coaching
to several nonprofit leaders throughout the country. She is a member of the Society for
Nonprofit Organizations and the Association for
Research on
Nonprofit
Organizations
and Voluntary action.
Full Glass provides transition support, nonprofit executive search, executive and board coaching,
and
management
consulting to nonprofit and
philanthropic organizations.
Laura can be reached
directly at
(888)784-3433 or via
email at Laura.Deaton@FullGlassConsulting.com.
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