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Leadership Series Trainer
Michael Shadow is an internationally acknowledged trainer/coach in persuasive communication. He heads the Seattle-based firm of Shadow and Associates, which specializes in public speaking and media preparation for public and private sector leaders. In addition to his private coaching, Michael has designed and facilitated over 500 major seminars for executives and public officials. His clients include environmental activists, judges and attorneys, educators, lobbyists, and political and business leaders in Europe, Africa, South America, Canada and the United States.
Michael is a Lecturer at the University of Washington's Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs where he facilitates a ten-hour skills workshop in oral communication, teaches a summer quarter class in Political Communication and is the lead faculty for the course in Effective Communication in the Executive Master of Public Administration program.
Michael is also an adjunct professor in Seattle University's Institute of Public Service (IPS) and in the Executive Master of Not-for-Profit Leadership program (MNPL). In IPS he teaches two courses: Oral Communication for Public Sector Administrators and Communication and Advocacy. In MNPL he teaches the seminar in Persuasive Communication.
Michael's courses at the University of Washington and Seattle University consistently receive high positive ratings by students. His work outside of academia receives high praise with an occasional rhetorical flourish. The Seattle Times has called Michael “polished and articulate “the sultan of suave . . .the godfather of glib . . . the oracle of oration,” and the “image meister,” who is “one of the most sought after communication coaches in the country.” The Wall Street Journal calls Michael “the internationally noted speech consultant . . . a spellbinding speaker” who can “nail his audience to their seats with both his style and his message.” The Vancouver Sun (BC) says that he “is reported to give the best pep-talk this side of a superbowl locker room” and the Seattle Weekly voted Michael the ‘best political consultant” for 1998.
In 1997 Michael Shadow received the Ned Behnke Leadership Award for exceptional courage and leadership in the fight against HIV/AIDS. From 1989 to 1996, Michael chaired the organizing committee of the annual Northwest AIDS Walk—guiding the walk as it grew from an event raising $300,000 to one which raised over $1.4 million—making it one of the largest single-day fundraisers in the Northwest.
Michael is a past chair of the Group Health Community Foundation's Board of Directors and the Board of Trustees of Seattle-King County Crimestoppers. He has served on the boards of Children's Home Society of Washington and United Cerebral Palsy of Snohomish and King Counties.
Special Briefing Trainer
Kay is a San Francisco-based organizational consultant, providing workshops and consultation to local, regional, national and international organizations in strategic planning, case and board development, staff development, and other issues related to leadership of the fund raising process. Prior to starting her own firm in 1987, she was a staff development officer for nearly a decade serving several organizations. She has been a member of the faculty of The Fund Raising School (Indiana University Center on Philanthropy) since 1980. Prior to her career in nonprofit development, she was a print and television journalist and an educator. Her current major contract is as principal external consultant to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting's Major Giving Initiative. 114 public television licensees have participated in the program, which began in March, 2004, and concludes in January, 2007.
Other recent clients (2003 – 2005) include: KCET, Los Angeles; National Public Radio Foundation; KQED, San Francisco; Sesame Workshop; California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco; Sun Valley (Idaho) Library; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; High Desert Museum, Oregon; Santa Barbara Museum of Art; Sage Hill School; Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health; University of Colorado Foundation; Family Violence Prevention Fund; Lasallian Education Fund; Sutter Health Systems Foundations; Kaiser Institute, Colorado; Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth Health Systems; and Larkin Street Youth Services (San Francisco).
Her B.A. (Communications-Journalism) and M.A. (Education) are from Stanford University, where she served as the first woman Volunteer Chair of the Stanford Fund. Previously, she served as National Volunteer Chair of the Keystone Program ($10,000 - $100,000 gifts) for Stanford's $1.1 billion Centennial Campaign. The program raised $72 million. She has received Stanford's highest award for volunteer service, the Gold Spike, as well as their Associates' Award, Outstanding Achievement Award, Award of Merit and Centennial Medal.
She speaks nationally (Houston, San Antonio, Dallas, Indianapolis, Denver, Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Jose, Monterey, Sacramento, Memphis, Birmingham, Las Vegas, and Minneapolis) at a variety of conferences. In 2005 she was a featured presenter at the International Fund Raising Conference in The Netherlands, and at the AFP Toronto Congress. She was the National Philanthropy Day speaker in 2005 in Hampton Roads, VA. She has been honored as "Outstanding Fund Raising Executive" by the Golden Gate Chapter of the National Society of Fund Raising Executives and has received the Gamma Phi Beta Pink Carnation Award for service to her profession.
She is the author of five books. Beyond Fund Raising: New Strategies for Nonprofit Innovation and Investment (John P. Wiley, 1997; second edition, 2005); High Impact Philanthropy: How Donors, Boards, and Nonprofit Organizations Can Transform Communities, co-author, with Alan Wendroff (John P. Wiley, 2001); Over Goal! What You Must Know to Excel at Fundraising Today (Emerson & Church, 2003); The Ultimate Board Member's Book (Emerson & Church, 2003); Fundraising Mistakes That Bedevil All Boards (Emerson & Church, 2004); and of the booklet, The Board's Role in Setting and Advancing the Mission (Board Source, 2003). She is a regular columnist for the bi-monthly publication, Contributions and has contributed chapters to several books including both editions of Achieving Excellence in Fund Raising by Henry A. Rosso and Associates (1987 and 2003), Taking Fund Raising Seriously, and Taking Trusteeship Seriously.
She serves on the board of the John W. Gardner Center for Youth and Their Communities at Stanford University, and previously served on the boards of the Djerassi Resident Artist Program (Woodside, CA), the Women's Philanthropy Institute, and the Advisory Board for the University of San Francisco Institute for Nonprofit Organization Management. She lives in San Francisco and is passionate about her children and grandchildren, philanthropy, writing, travel and her photography.
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