OTM Board

Nancy Clark
Board President, On The Move
Executive Director, N.L. Clark & Associates

Nancy has over twenty-five years of systems, operations, and change management experience. Nancy dedicates her efforts to helping clients anticipate, prepare, and transition their organizations for the future. Prior to opening her own consulting firm, Nancy was a principal with Arthur Andersen. She led the Northern California Enterprise Consulting Practice and also served as the Western Regional Director of Arthur Andersen’s School of the Future effort. Her passion is to help public and private education by bringing her organizational development skills to the learning industry. In particular, she worked with the Alameda Unified School District in the planning and implementation of the Arthur Andersen Community Learning Center, a collaborative learning environment that combines the best educational practices with state-of-the-art technology. She has consulted to Los Angeles Unified School District (1.2 million students), San Francisco Unified District, Orange County Department of Education and other school systems.

Nancy has served as a member of the Industry Education Council of California and its Blue Ribbon Technology Committee; she has presented to the Governor’s Council on Information Technology and she is frequently requested to speak at education and business conferences. She was part of the team that was honored with the 1996 Conference Board’s “Best in Class” award for her work with Alameda. She previously served as the President of the Board for Alternatives in Action and the Bay Area School of Enterprise (BASE), and currently is the Board President for On The Move. She earned her B.A. degree from the University of California, Davis, and a MBA degree from the University of Santa Clara.

Peter Ellis
Managing Partner, Community Crime Prevention Associates

Peter Ellis is the founding partner of Community Crime Prevention Associates. Dr. Ellis has been involved in community organizing and building community capacity for the past 40 years. He continues to apply and research resiliency variables as they relate to the development of pro-social and successful youth development. Dr. Ellis has spent the last15 years developing and researching the impact of community-driven programs designed to improve the quality of life for youth, families, and communities. Specifically, Dr. Ellis has served as the principal researcher for developing and implementing the evaluation of the 81 youth service programs funded by the Oakland Fund for Children and Youth. Also, since 1992, Dr. Ellis has provided technical assistance and consultation in applying current research about youth and family resiliency to the San José Mayor's Gang Prevention Task Force annual strategic plan. He assisted the Task Force to develop a nationally recognized community coalition model to direct services to high-risk youth. Dr. Ellis is a past member of the Golden Feather Union School Board and past president of the Butte County School Board Association, as well as a co-founder of the University of Phoenix. Dr. Ellis earned his Ph.D in Community Education and Administration from the University of Michigan.

Diana Gordon
Board Secretary/Treasurer, On The Move
Chief Operating Officer, On The Move

Diana brings 30 years of experience with schools, both public and private, in the areas of development and implementation of programs, financial management, fund raising, media management, organizational systems development, legal and regulatory requirements, facilities management, recruitment and admissions, team building in training and supervision of staff. Diana co-founded with Leslie, Alternatives In Action, HOME, the Bay Area School of Enterprise, HOME Sweet HOME Preschool, Moving Forward, On The Verge and On The Move.

Gail Ann Greely
Executive Director, Alternatives In Action

Gail Greely was appointed Executive Director and General Counsel of Alternatives in Action in July 2004 following the departure of the organization’s founders. In preparation for the transition, Gail served for a year as Chief Operating Officer and as General Counsel from 2001. Her affiliation with AIA goes back to the organization’s early years. She served on the Alameda Board of Education when AIA began working with youth in the Alameda Unified School District and her son was one of HOME Project’s founding youth members. In her work with AIA, Gail has served in nearly every role: consultant, lawyer, youth group coach, classroom teacher, operations manager. Her strengths are in policy development and organizational systems, and during her tenure as ED she has sought to move AIA to a more sustainable structure – in finance, community relations, governance, operations and staffing.

She has a strong interest in government policy related to education and youth development. Her publications include the article “A School Board That Learns” appearing in Schools That Learn: A Fifth Discipline Fieldbook for Educators, Parents, and Everyone Who Cares About Education, by Peter Senge and co-editors. For 20 years before joining Alternatives in Action, she practiced law in the field of water and power regulation. Gail and her husband have three children, all recent college graduates. Her outside interests include theater, travel, cooking and reading (especially mysteries).

Leslie Medine
Executive Director, On The Move

Leslie brings 30 years of community organizing, organizational and administrative planning, coaching, and direct service to youth. She has served as executive director, primary development officer, board president, recruitment and admissions director, financial manager, and community builder. Leslie is the co-founder of Beacon Day School, Beacon High School, and Educational Implementers Inc. Additionally, she and Diana co-founded Alternatives In Action, HOME, Bay Area School of Enterprise, HOME Sweet HOME Preschool, Moving Forward, On The Verge, and On The Move.

Dale Anne Ogar
Editor, The Wellness Newsletter, UCB

Dale Ogar has worked in the area of science, health and nutrition since her days at Michigan State University, where she majored in medical technology. In 1966 she moved to Berkeley, California and in 1972 she joined the Department of Nutritional Sciences as the administrator of a human metabolic unit known as the "Penthouse". In 1979 she transferred to the School of Public Health where she became a Principal Editor. In 1983, when plans were being developed for the U.C. Berkeley Wellness Letter, Dale was named Managing Editor, a position that she still holds. The Wellness Letter, now in its 22ndyear, is among the largest circulating health newsletters in the country, with a worldwide readership in the millions. Dale has also served as a writer, editor and consultant to a number of other health-related projects in the School of Public Health at Berkeley and has been a consultant to groups outside the University. She is the co-author of many scientific publications and is the Managing Editor of several best-selling reference books and three cookbooks. For many years she co-authored a widely read syndicated weekly column on food and health distributed by the Chicago Tribune Syndicate. She frequently participates in professional symposia and conferences, both as a speaker and observer. Dale has received the University of California's Distinguished Achievement Award for her work in the areas of wellness. In 2001 she presented testimony before a White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine, advocating for more research, oversight and caution in this area. In 2007 she will begin serving as Program Director of the Bay Area Albert Schweitzer Fellowships.

Maria Elena Riddle
Organizational Consultant

Maria Elena Riddle is an educator whose career spans thirty-two years from pre-school through university level experience. Her interest and particular expertise has focused on educational equity for language minority students at all levels. She has participated in and led in the development and administration of state and federally-funded programs designed to serve this population and has worked with parents, teachers and administrators, state and federal legislators, the press and community leaders towards the goal of improving the educational opportunities for minority students, particularly Latinos.

Her professional responsibilities have included senior administration in a university setting, development and monitoring of educational programs, resource development and administration of state and federal programs in collaboration with local education agencies, community based organizations and the business sector. Ms. Riddle is a founding staff member of The National Hispanic University and served for a year as its Interim President when the founding President died in 2002. Ms. Riddle is now an independent consultant who assists in evaluation of publicly funded youth programs, facilitates an interagency collaboration led by United Way Silicon Valley to improve educational options for struggling students and out-of-school youth. She also works with small non-profit organizations in organizational and resource development. Ms. Riddle consulted for five years with a local foundation, overseeing the development and monitoring of their Central American programs where she traveled extensively. Ms. Riddle is the daughter of Mexican immigrants who were migrant workers and was born and raised in the Bay Area. She entered kindergarten as a native Spanish-speaker and learned English as a second language. Ms. Riddle holds a BA in Spanish Literature from CSU East Bay where she also earned an elementary teaching credential. She recently completed the coursework for her Master of Arts degree in Higher Education Administration at Santa Clara University. She has been married for thirty-seven years to her husband, Oliver, and has two sons, Douglas and Mark David.

Sue Thompson
Organizational Consultant

Sue is an Executive Coach and Management Consultant. She helps leaders improve their organization’s effectiveness. She is highly skilled in team building, approaches to change management, organization survey processes and meeting design and facilitation. Sue has over 30 years of experience in coaching, organization and leadership development. She has worked in leadership capacities at Pan American World Airways and at Levi Strauss & CO. where she worked for 21 years, serving as the Director Human Resource Development.

Sue started her executive coaching practice in 1997. The focus of her work is helping leaders understand the impact of their behavior on the way their organization operates.

A graduate of Arizona State University, Sue has a Master of Science degree in Organization Development. She is a graduate of the Advanced Program in Organization Development at Columbia University and is a certified Executive Coach through The Hudson Institute of Santa Barbara. She has served as an adjunct professor at Holy Names College, Golden Gate University, and is currently teaching in the MSOD program at The University of San Francisco.