Meet Dorel Shanon
Principal of Dorel Shanon Consulting, Dorel partners with non-profits to help them fully realize their visions and fulfill their missions. Dorel believes that organizations are most effective when they build upon their strengths and successes. She supports her clients by mining those strengths, developing leaders at all levels of an organization (Board members, executives and line staff), working with teams to realize their potentials, and helping her clients envision and bring to life vibrant and successful futures. Dorel Shanon’s experience as a non-profit consultant is grounded in her years as a frontline staff member, manager, senior executive and Board member. She has assumed numerous volunteer leadership roles in non-profits, most recently as Board Chair for Women’s Medical Fund in Philadelphia.
Dorel Shanon Consulting has partnered with The Philadelphia Department of Human Services, Drexel University College of Medicine, Living Beyond Breast Cancer, Planned Parenthood Pennsylvania, Community Legal Services of Philadelphia, and The Pew Charitable Trusts.
Among the recognitions she has received, Dorel is especially proud of being honored by Living Beyond Breast Cancer for her consulting support to the organization, and of her Golden APPLE Award from the National Association of Planned Parenthood Leaders in Education (for outstanding leadership in the field of sexual health education).
Education:
Dorel Shanon has post-graduate training from the University of Pennsylvania’s Organizational Dynamics Masters Program, and Temple University’s Adult and Organizational Development Masters Program (Philadelphia PA). She is certified by the Center for Human Systems Practitioners Program (Baltimore, MD) and was awarded a Bachelor of Arts Degree from the University of Pennsylvania.
Testimonials:
“It is astounding what Dorel accomplished in her three years as our Board Chair! She combined her professional skills with her volunteer passion and energy. She taught board members how to be board members - how to relate to staff, how to represent the organization in the world, how to ask for money - both through board training and also through powerful modeling. She developed a meaningful committee structure and vibrant committees of committed volunteers who understand their responsibilities. She led the board through a strategic plan and then kept the organization focused on implementing the plan. With her tremendous flexibility and open-mindedness, she led us to veer from our plan when appropriate. She is an incredibly careful listener and a very creative thinker, which add up to being a brilliant problem-solver. In short, Dorel was an executive director's dream.”
Susan Schewel, Executive Director
Women’s Medical Fund, Philadelphia PA
“I have been through a few strategic planning sessions in my time and I have to tell you that Saturday was the best day I have ever spent in strategic planning! You have brought to us a living process that goes beyond the paper and gives us a sense of what our future “feels” like without abandoning necessary business principles. Thank you so much for your guidance throughout this process and for letting us own it.”
Former Director of Human Resources
Women Against Abuse, Philadelphia PA
“Dorel has been an invaluable resource to Living Beyond Breast Cancer over the last ten years. I have relied on her expertise to navigate LBBC from a small organization with a handful of employees to a mid-size organization with twenty staff and a budget of $3.5 million. She has trained my staff individually on skills from supervision, receiving and giving feedback and conflict resolution and has lead the entire staff in retreats to help build a stronger more unified team. She has guided the Board through strategic planning, developed board self-evaluations and worked with my Board chair on how to evaluate the CEO. For many years she has been my coach, supporting me through a myriad of issues and playing a key role in my ability to lead and grow LBBC to a nationally recognized organization.
Dorel has a mix of attributes that make her unique and well qualified for many tasks. She is intelligent, an attentive listener, compassionate, clear, honest and committed to excellence. It is always a pleasure to work with her and she has taught me so many valuable lessons over the years.”
Jean Sachs, CEO/President
Living Beyond Breast Cancer
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