NDI Staff & Faculty:
 James P. LaRose, CFRE: Co-Founder, NDI
Jim, during his career as a development professional has assisted over 250 non-profit institutions in the U.S. and overseas. The organizations he's served include child and human welfare agencies, colleges and universities, private K-12 schools, civic organizations, mental health institutions, animal protection agencies, and fine arts coalitions. He specializes in major gifts cultivation, special events, direct mail, foundation solicitation, annual fund campaigns, capital campaigns, feasibility studies and board/staff development. Jim has worn the hats of conference speaker, development officer, and agency director, and is past President of both the Association of Christian Development Professionals (ACDP) and the Western Maryland Chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP). He is the founder of the National Development Institute, a certificate program for development professionals committed to continuing education. He holds the Certified Fund Raising Executive certification from the AFP and was recently named Outstanding Executive Fundraiser of the Year by the AFP's Carolina Chapter. He is a graduate of Indiana University's Executive Leadership Institute and Faculty Training Academy, Indianapolis, IN, the National Planned Giving Institute, Memphis, TN, Tennessee Temple University, Chattanooga, TN and Word Of Life Bible Institute, Schroon Lake, NY.
 Wesley A. Rediger: Co-Founder, NDI
With more than twenty years of leadership involvement in fund development, Dr. Rediger has comprehensive experience in all aspects of organizational advancement including planning, administration, fundraising, public relations, operating fund and capital campaign leadership. Dr. Rediger is an experienced organizational auditor, Vice President for Development, teacher and consultant. He has served large and small organizations in developing and guiding operating fund plans, public relations strategies, and capital campaigns. Wesley is the author of the Perfect Capital Campaign Concept based on guiding two organizations with vastly different missions in a small rural community to collaborate and raise $2,361,000 against a goal of $2,000,000 in just 6 months. He has also served organizations in major metropolitan areas including Philadelphia and Indianapolis, and international organizations based in Europe and the Caribbean. Dr. Rediger has served on the faculty at annual conventions of various international fund development associations.He holds a B.A. from Taylor University, and an M.A. and Ed. D. in Educational Leadership from Teachers College at Ball State University. He earned the Certified Fund Raising Executive, CFRE, certification from the Association of Fundraising Professionals in 1995. He is also certified to administer and interpret the Myers Briggs Type Indicator which he has used widely in management training and team building seminars.
Natalie Carlisle, CFRE: Senior Faculty
Before launching her own successful consulting practice Natalie Carlisle served as Vice President for Development at Mississippi Methodist Senior Services overseeing development office start-up, annual giving, capital campaigns, special event planning, major gift programs, planned giving, volunteer recruitment, staff and volunteer training, and board development. Natalie’s fundraising experience includes senior housing, healthcare, substance abuse prevention, museums, political campaign fundraising, festivals, churches, social services organizations, civic clubs and other community service associations, as well as state and national resource/service provider organizations. She is available and regularly presents on a variety of fundraising topics for national, state, and local associations. Natalie has been designated as a Certified Fund Raising Executive by the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP), is a graduate of the Planned Giving Institute at the College of William and Mary, has attended both the University of North Alabama and Auburn University, Earning a Bachelor of Science degree in Marketing, is certified Franklin-Covey Facilitator for the Seven Habits of Highly Effective People Workshop Series, and has served as the Mississippi Center for Nonprofits, Chair of the Board of Directors.
 Jackson M. Doggette, Esq - Senior Faculty
Jackson Michael Doggette Jr. is an ordained minister and attorney at law. His academic preparation for service includes a B.A. in Theology from Oakwood College, M.A. in Religion from Andrews University, and J.D. from Thomas M. Cooley Law School. Additionally, Mr. Doggette has earned designations as a Certified Specialist in Planned Giving from the American Institute for Philanthropic Studies, California State University at Long Beach Foundation, Certified Life Coach from The Life Coach Institute, Executive Leadership Training through the CEO Workshop for Advanced Ministry Chief Executive Officers, Certified Trust Officer through the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, and Certified Family Mediator through the Supreme Court of Florida. Mr. Doggette’s experience in leadership with nonprofit organizations spans more than 28 years. As senior pastor of small and large congregation, former Chief Legal Officer of Florida Hospital, and member of many community nonprofit boards, Mr. Doggette has learned how to effectively move organizations forward in an efficient and effective manner to achieve predetermined goals. As a consultant to nonprofit organizations, Mr. Doggette has taught boards and executives how to lead paid and volunteer staff to achieve more than they thought was possible. Mr. Doggette is the leader of Doggette Law Firm, P.L. with a practice focus in estate planning, charitable gift planning, and general counsel to nonprofit organizations.
Antony Bell - Senior Faculty
Antony Bell is cofounder and managing partner of Leader Development, Inc., whose nationwide consulting partners have worked with such clients as Allied Signal, Bose Corporation, and March of Dimes on issues of leadership development and organizational change. An adjunct faculty member of the Daniel School of Management at the University of South Carolina, he is an international speaker and noted specialist in coaching executive teams for clients, including Nike South Africa and British Telecom. Responding to the growing demand for leadership that is both competent and principled, leadership development expert Antony Bell offers an easy-to-grasp, workable framework that gets to the very heart of what defines greatness: knowledge, skills, and talents combined with the inner qualities of a leader that drive noble actions. For any current or aspiring leader looking to take charge of his or her growth, Tony's book Great Leadership traces leadership's evolution, pulling together the research and writings of such eminent thinkers as Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Warren Bennis, Daniel Goleman and John Kotter into a coherent and practical whole that makes complexity manageable and leadership development as simple as possible. Bell introduces his Three Dimensions of Leadership model and plenty of practical tools to help assess when and how to achieve greatness in leading organizations, operations, and people. And integrating leader development with organization development, he demonstrates clearly what results when leadership is effectively practiced in its three main dimensions: employees align with the organization’s mission, commit their heart and soul to improving their productivity, and collectively contribute to improving the corporate bottom line.
 Rachelle Bracebridge Bussell, CFRE
Rachelle Bracebridge Bussell, CFRE, has worked with non-profits for nearly 20 years. Her initial years were spent in non-profit health-care organizations and then she moved to education. She was later the associate director for Philanthropic Service for Institutions at the North American Division of Seventh-day Adventists where she administered and created PSI's educational programs, planning, consulting and healthcare grants. Her experience in healthcare ranged from clinical responsibilities to executive positions in business, development, and operations as CEO and an executive director. She joined Carolyn Hamilton and expanded the services of Hamilton, Bussell and Associates in 2002. Rachelle’s particular strengths are in strategic planning that encompasses an entire organization’s functions, in capital campaign management and planning, and in major gift relationships. She is a frequent speaker at conferences and facilitator for board retreats and volunteer involvement and active in the non-profit community. She currently serves as the Senior Director of Development for the University of South Carolina, School of Law overseeing a 75 Million capital campaign. Her greatest joy is sharing time with her husband and four wonderful children. She resides in South Carolina.
 Louise R. Slater - Moderator
Louise began her work in 1979 in the training and development industry through internships with Milliken and Company and J.P. Stevens & Co., both textile manufacturers in South Carolina. After receiving her master’s degree in industrial phychology, Louise joined Wilson Learning in 1981 as a performance consultant. While a performance consultant, Louise developed and taught courses for DuPont, AT&T, John Deere, General Mills, Amtrak, and Raytheon Aircraft. Louise worked in both union and non-union plants for Sonoco. Louise’s current activities include teaching a supervisory course at the University of South Carolina (USC) that she has been teaching for over 8 years. This workshop includes supervisors from companies throughout the Southeast, primarily manufacturing. She also teaches "in-house" workshops for USC for clients such as Alcatel, Toyota, Fuji, and Piggly Wiggly. Since 1997, Louise has been chairman of the board of a family owned steel fabricating company headquartered in Columbia, SC. Louise is past chair of the South Carolina State Museum Foundation, volunteers regularly at her church, and past secretary of EdVenture Children’s Museum Board. One of her passions is her volunteer work with incarcerated youth at the S.C. Dept. of Juvenile Justice. She is a member of three committees (VECTOR, Friends of Dept of Juvenile Justice and the Dept of Juvenile Justice Advocacy Committee) organized to rehabilitate juvenile offenders, alleviate and prevent juvenile delinquency through “after school centers”, and advocate for positive changes in the juvenile justice process.
 Kathleen Wilson - Senior Faculty
Kathleen Wilson (BA, Moody Bible Institute; MEd, Texas Woman’s University; PhD, Michigan State) is a research professor and director of the Center for Neighborhood Development. Her field is rural community development, with special emphasis on community capacity building to achieve positive development outcomes in children, youth, and families. Prof. Wilson is nationally and internationally known for her professional work and writings on systems-based approaches to community improvement, which is used by practitioners to transform and create social organizations, government, and community social structures and processes that build social capital needed to stimulate economic and social development. She has done extensive community development work related to human service and health systems reform, and food, agriculture, and natural resource management. Prof. Wilson previously served as associate director of the Institute for Families in Society at the University of South Carolina (1995-1999). Before coming to South Carolina, Prof. Wilson was a tenured professor in the College of Agriculture and Human Resources (Department of Human Resources) and in the College of Social Sciences (Department of Urban and Regional Planning) at the University of Hawaii at Manoa from 1981-1994.She was a tenured research associate at the East-West Center before joining the UHM faculty (1978-1981). She has also been Vice President of Programs for an international club, camping, and leadership development program, Pioneer Ministries (1970-1975), Acting Director of Educational Design Associates (1975-1978) a private consulting and publishing firm, a science teacher in the Denton Texas school system (1967-1970) while completing her MEd, and Director of a nonprofit literacy program in inner city Chicago from 1964-1967, while completing her BA. From 1966-present, she has been actively involved with the Peace Corps in Africa and Asia conducting pre-departure training programs, consulting with various country staff, developing division projects, and re-designing and evaluating various programs. From 1975-1978, while completing her PhD, she co-directed a multi-million dollar United States Agency for International Development project at Michigan State University to build Indonesia's technical college system.
From 1981 to 1992, Prof. Wilson served as national team leader for the US Department of Agriculture’s national Systems Approaches to Food, Agriculture, and Natural Resource Project. This project sought to create new instructional resources for faculty and to train faculty in new systemic approaches to resource management. The project was sponsored jointly by the USDA, the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges, the Association of State Colleges of Agriculture and Renewable Resources, and an industry advisory group. In 1986, she received an Award of Distinction from the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges for her work on this national project. She was awarded the University of Hawaii Regents’ Medal for Excellence in Teaching and Research in 1990, the highest award given at UHM. She also has received awards of distinction from the Peace Corps and USDA for her community development work. Having traveled and worked in 151 countries, she is a recognized leader in rural community development in developing countries. |
