Caryn Bosson is the principal of Caryn Bosson Consulting, supporting individuals, teams and nonprofit organizations to achieve their greatest impact. Caryn brings skills and wisdom gained from three decades of successful nonprofit management. Her specialities include executive leadership and coaching, strategic planning, fund development, communications, leadership and organizational development.

Caryn also serves as part-time Executive Director of The CREW, which since 1991 has provided employment and leadership experience to local youth as they participate in vital conservation work. Caryn’s background includes nearly a decade of senior leadership roles at TreePeople, a 44-year-old urban forestry pioneer in Los Angeles. Prior to that, she founded and led as Executive Director for ten years the innovative Ojai Valley Youth Foundation, which she grew into a statewide model for involving young people as partners in strengthening their communities.

Caryn believes in strength-based, shared leadership as the essential way to grow stronger communities and organizations, and in the power we all have to envision and shape a better future. She has been named an Ojai Living Treasure, a Woman of the Ojai, and received the Carla Bard Community Service Award. Caryn has served on several boards in Ojai, where she is an active community volunteer. She has a BA in Literature from UCSB's College of Creative Studies, and a MS in Organizational Leadership from Manhattan College.

Norbert Tan is a certified executive coach and consultant who works with boards, senior leaders, and their teams to optimize peak performance and advance their organizations. As a thought partner, his approach is actively collaborating with clients to maximize results and sustain life-changing behavior.

Norbert also helps organizations build capacity to maximize their missions and community impact, whether he is guiding strategic planning, helping boost philanthropic revenue, or fine-tuning operations. Norbert has facilitated numerous board and staff strategic retreats, moderated expert panels and political candidates’ forums, and emceed special events.

Norbert’s recent consulting clients include the Asian Pacific Policy & Planning Council, Cabrillo Economic Development Corporation, California Lutheran University, Channel Islands Chamber Orchestra, and the Ventura Botanical Gardens. He serves and advises on a variety of non-profit boards, including the Ventura County Ballet, Ventura County Leadership Academy, and Rubicon Theatre.

Norbert brings over 25-years of leadership and management experience from diverse fields, and recently served as the Associate Vice Chancellor for Institutional Advancement at Antioch University, Executive Director for the Ventura College Foundation, and the Managing Director of Rubicon Theatre Company. He has been directly involved in raising over $30M over his career with regional non-profit organizations. Norbert earned his MBA in in Nonprofit Management from The Anderson School at UCLA and his BS from the Haas School at UC Berkeley.

Doug Green teaches nonprofit management, social marketing, and strategic P.R. in the MBA and MPPA programs at California Lutheran University. Doug consults for nonprofit organizations as a Senior Consultant with La Piana Consulting, a national nonprofit consulting firm specializing in strategy, strategic restructuring, and business planning. Doug led the nonprofit agency AIDS Care in the 1990s and served at the Director of the Center for Nonprofit Management at the Ventura County Community Foundation between 2001 and 2004. He has created nonprofit consulting programs for the Nonprofit Support Center of Santa Barbara County and the Ventura County Community Foundation. Doug resides in Santa Paula.

Debbie Brokaw Jackson has extensive experience in all aspects of nonprofit and business administration. She served as Executive Director of a youth-serving nonprofit in Oregon for eighteen years, and is currently Vice President and Chair of the Board of Brokaw Ranch Company, a local family business.

 Since 2007, as an organizational consultant, she has been assisting nonprofits and family businesses negotiate through periods of transition. The services she provides to nonprofits include board and staff development, strategic planning, interim director services, and coaching. Family businesses benefit from her knowledge of their unique challenges. She works with owners and the greater family to help them manage succession from one generation to another, and ensure continued business success. Selected clients include:

• Leavens Ranches
• Farm Bureau of Ventura County
• Oregon Boating Foundation
• City of Thousand Oaks/ Alliance for the Arts
• House Farm Workers!
• San Miguel Produce

Debbie earned her bachelor’s degree at the University of California at Davis. She received additional training in Leadership, Effective Organizations, Facilitation, and Community Collaborations through the Ford Family Foundation. She also completed the training and examinations required to be a Certified Myers Briggs Practitioner.

Debbie currently serves on the boards of the Santa Paula Art Museum and the Fillmore Pumpers Association. She was on the faculty of the Ventura County Community Foundation, providing instruction in organizational development and leadership.

Becca Merrell, CFRE has more than 25 years of successful fund development and nonprofit management experience. As regional director for the Central Coast Region of NETZEL GRIGSBY ASSOCIATES, INC., Becca has partnered with a wide-variety of nonprofit organizations, guiding them to achieve their goals.

Among those who have benefited from her expertise are health care organizations, educational institutions, youth and human service organizations, religious organizations, and the arts. Her extensive knowledge has been valuable to nonprofits in creating and implementing dynamic fundraising programs, including capital campaigns, annual campaigns and development strategies.

Becca is a member of the faculty of the Center for Nonprofit Leadership at California Lutheran University. Active in the Association of Fundraising Professionals, Becca is a member of the San Luis Obispo Chapter and is a past president of the Santa Barbara/Ventura Counties Chapter, where she was selected as Fundraiser of the Year in 2008.

Becca earned her bachelors degree in sociology from California State University, Northridge, graduating summa cum laude.

Steve Willmont serves as a vice president with NETZEL GRIGSBY ASSOCIATES, INC., Steve directs major capital campaigns, feasibility studies and organizational development for a wide spectrum of nonprofit organizations, primarily in Ventura, Santa Barbara, and San Luis Obispo counties.

Steve brings the experience of over 30 years of professional nonprofit management to his clients. He has led successful capital campaigns, board development programs, annual fundraising campaigns, volunteer and staff development training, and planned giving programs.

Prior to joining the firm, Steve served as President & CEO of California YMCA Youth & Government where he worked extensively with the California legislature to increase support for the Y's program, including the passage of a bill adding the Y as a tax form donation recipient. Under his leadership, the program grew to over 90 YMCAs in the state, serving over 3,500 students. He has also served as executive director and program director at multiple YMCA branches. Steve also has extensive expertise as an instructor and presenter. He served as director of training events for the YMCA of the USA and regional programs.

Steve has been an active member of Optimist International in both northern and southern California, serving as District Lt. Governor and Club President. He is a Lifetime Optimist Member and has been honored as Optimist of the Year.

Steve graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in physics from Occidental College in Los Angeles.