Jeannette Archer-Simons, Management and Fund Raising Consultant, formed her own firm as an expert in organizational assessment, strategic alignment, fund raising strategy and nonprofit leadership following the successful development and implementation of major restructuring or merger strategies for several regional nonprofit organizations. She has served as CEO of three large organizations. She was appointed as CEO of one of the first Girl Scout groups in the United States to complete the merger of four smaller councils in central and northeastern Pennsylvania. It served 49,000 members including 12,000 volunteers covering 30 counties with assets in excess of twenty-five (25) million dollars. She also served as CEO at Girl Scouts, Connecticut Trails Council for eight years, the 8th largest Girl Scout council in the country. She was a leader in the merger planning and implementation strategy to create Girl Scouts of Connecticut from five councils including her own organization. She also served as CEO for five years at Girl Scouts of Broward County, Inc., in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida completing a successful restructure and growth strategy.

In addition to her 17 years of experience in nonprofit leadership and fund development, she has worked in the for-profit sector and has experience in financial and estate planning, insurance and in advertising and marketing. She has a Bachelors Degree in Economics from the University of Iowa and a Masters in Business Administration (MBA) from St. Ambrose University. She is currently working on a Ph.D. in Higher Education. She is a Certified Fund Raising Executive (CFRE) and is a Certified Girl Scout CEO (CGCEO). She also has certificates in Executive Education in Nonprofit Management from Case Western Reserve University, Mandel Center and has completed the Management Training Institute from Yale University and Conflict Resolution Training from Nova Southeastern University. She also is a graduate of the Women’s Campaign School at Yale University.

She has served in numerous community leadership positions from Board Chair/President to various officer, board and committee positions. Some of the executive leadership positions include the boards of Junior League (Connecticut and Florida), Association of Fund Raising Professionals (Connecticut and Florida), Women’s Campaign School at Yale, Broward Women’s Alliance, United Way of Broward County, Family Central, and Mississippi Valley Girl Scout Council as well as the Executive Steering Committee for United Way of the Capital Area (Connecticut) and Teen Pregnancy Prevention Coalition (Florida). She currently serves on the Board of Pennsylvania Family Support Alliance. She also is an active leader with Rotary and various other leadership and community organizations. She is a graduate and member of Leadership America, a national women’s executive leadership program. She has been recognized with a Frances Hesselbein Scholarship award, as a Woman of Distinction by the March of Dimes and as a Woman of Note, by the New Haven Business Times. She is also the recipient of the highest national awards in Girl Scouting, the Thanks Badge (1992) and the Thanks Badge II (2007).

She is also a national speaker and trainer, having presented at meetings such as the National Sheriff’s Association, the National Parole and Probation Officer’s Conference, Big Brother, Big Sister Conferences, Association of Fund Raising Professional’s conferences and survey courses, Association of Girl Scout Executive Staff and national Girl Scout Conferences as well as State and local conferences and training events. She is an instructor for the Nonprofit Resource Network at Millersville University, an affiliated consultant for Third Sector New England and an adjunct professor for Central Pennsylvania College.