Wendy's service specialties include Organizational Development and Planning, Program Design, and Research Policy and Analysis.

Wendy has 25 years of experience in community and organizational development, public policy, fundraising, and management. She has guided a wide range of organizational development and planning efforts for nonprofit, public, and philanthropic organizations, and she has completed complex evaluation, research, and policy projects.

She is a skilled strategic planner, able to bring strong analytic and participatory facilitation methods to results-oriented planning processes that fully engage diverse stakeholders. Environmental analysis, scenario building, visioning, and strategy development are typical components of the planning processes employed with such organizations as the Annie E. Casey Foundation, Center for Economic Progress, Jewish Child and Family Service, Naperville Public Library, and the National Runaway Switchboard. Facilitation strategies were helpful in building consensus among groups with divergent interests in work with the Bourbonnais Elementary School District and with the Metro South Mental Health Task Force.  Wendy is using participatory evaluation methods to structure a self-analysis and feedback process in the Grand Victoria Foundation’s Workforce Demonstration Project, which is aimed at moving low-wage, low-skill workers into living wage jobs. She has worked in partnership with the Illinois Department of Human Services in projects developing immigrant policy and organizational capacity building for new and emergent immigrant and refugee organizations.

Wendy has held positions with the Chicago Institute on Urban Poverty of the Heartland Alliance, the University of Illinois’s International Business Development Program, and the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees. She has managed electoral campaigns and is an experienced fundraiser. Wendy holds a Masters of Urban Planning and Policy from the University of Illinois at Chicago and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. She is a member of the Alliance for Non Profit Management, Association of Nonprofit Consultant, Donors Forum of Chicago, and National Association of Female Executives. She is the founder and former president of Friends of Whitney Young High School and served on the Local School Council. She is currently a board member of the Chicago Cultural Alliance, an association of museums and cultural centers.