Marian Alexander DeBerry
Executive Search Consultant , Campbell & Company
    Marian Alexander DeBerry is an Executive Search Consultant with Campbell & Company. She has more than 30 years of experience, in the non-profit sector as an education administrator, in the corporate sector in commercial banking and treasury administration, and, for the past ten years, in executive search. While she has conducted searches for corporations and mission-driven organizations, she primarily focuses on searches in the nonprofit sector and brings significant experience understanding of the issues around developing inclusive, high-performing workforces. She has consulted on several major diversity initiatives with corporations such as Fannie Mae, GE, Spiegel Corporation, and Capital One, focusing on best practices, diversity modeling and workforce development.
    Her career in executive search began in 1996 with a boutique executive search firm, and she has conducted and managed searches for middle level executives of major corporations, and for the leadership of foundations, associations, social service organizations, and educational institutions, among others.
    Ms. Alexander DeBerry spent several years in treasury management and commercial banking for the former Continental Bank and former Bank of Boston (both now Bank of America), where she formulated and delivered portfolio strategies and trading recommendations, and managed the bank’s short-term liability position. At the Bank of Boston, she served as the Recruitment Team Leader for The Wharton (Pennsylvania) and Fuqua (Duke) Schools of Business. Her career began in non-profit organizations with an advocacy organization for women and girl offenders, and then she served as Executive Director of a university-based educational achievement program for disadvantaged youth at Drexel University in Philadelphia.
    Ms. Alexander DeBerry holds a Master of Business Administration degree in Finance from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology and Sociology from Duke University. She also studied at the London Business School.
    Founded in 1976, Campbell & Company is a national philanthropic consulting firm offering a full range of services, including capital and endowment campaign counsel, annual and planned giving program counsel, feasibility studies and development audits, volunteer and staff training, and board development. In addition, through its marketing and communications and executive search divisions, Campbell & Company offers these specialized services to its nonprofit clients.

    The demand for talented fundraising and development professionals continues to increase, while it becomes more challenging to attract and retain passionate, committed and experienced professionals. Additionally, the reality of an increasingly diverse workforce and potential donor base suggests that inclusion is an ever more critical factor in the development staff equation. This session will address strategies to attract and retain a high-performing and inclusive development staff.

Benefits and Learning Objectives

1. understand the current and projected available workforce and talent pool for development and fundraising
2. have successful and appropriate sourcing strategies for entry, middle, and senior levels of development and fundraising staff
3. recognize the value of diversity and the role it will continue to play in staffing and in donor development
4. be made aware of approaches to developing high-performing and inclusive development teams