Accordant believes shared purpose and collective action can reshape health care. That’s why advancing health care is our sole focus, our passion and our mission.
Accordant’s singular focus on health care, rather than serving multiple nonprofit sectors, ensures you have access to experts who understand the complexities, pressure points and possibilities inherent in an ever-evolving health care industry. Accordant has had the privilege to serve more than 100 health care organizations representing more than 400 hospitals as well as hospices, CCRCs, CAHs, FQHCs and more.
Accordant’s thought leadership in driving a progressive approach to optimizing health care philanthropy, advancing community health impact programs, fostering values-based organizational cultures and supporting health care governance has been recognized by national industry associations. Accordant leaders serve as faculty and authors for leading industry associations, including American Hospital Association, American College of Healthcare Executives and Association for Healthcare Philanthropy. Our team wrote the leading book on philanthropy for health care executives and the first in-depth guide on philanthropy for health care trustees.
Our progressive work has also been featured in industry publications including Healthcare Executive, Modern Healthcare, H&HN, FierceHealthFinance, BoardRoom Press, Trustee, Chief Executive Officer, Becker’s Hospital Review, Chronicle of Philanthropy, Healthcare Philanthropy Journal, Health Facilities Management and more.
Accordant’s team consists of highly experienced health care professionals—with consultants averaging 25 years of direct, frontline experience in leading nonprofit health care organizations. Most experts hold the Fellow of the Association for Healthcare Philanthropy (FAHP), Certified Fundraising Executive (CFRE), Fellow of the Institute of Fundraising (FInstF) or other professional certifications. That means experienced, senior leaders work with you on all phases of an engagement to create a platform for agile innovation and collaboration and to guarantee individual, custom-tailored service from experienced industry leaders.
Accordant would be honored to support your health care organization’s vision of potential. To explore a partnership or to find our more, please contact us today.
Our Team
Learn more about, connect with and schedule meetings with team members through individual bio links.
Betsy Taylor has become one of health care philanthropy’s most provocative thought leaders. She is an award-winning author, speaker and consultant drawing on more than 25 years’ experience in health care philanthropy including 17 years as chief philanthropy officer and foundation president in academic, community and children’s hospitals. Betsy specializes in leadership engagement and philanthropy strategy.
Betsy Chapin Taylor, FAHP
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
Pam Maroulis serves as Accordant’s President. In this role, she is responsible for leading the day-to-day operations of the firm and for working closely with client partners to craft solutions that will not only meet their mission needs but also exceed them.
Pamela Ronka Maroulis, CFRE
PRESIDENT & PRINCIPAL CONSULTANT
With an extensive background in marketing, branding and art direction, Mike Beall combines his diverse experience with health care philanthropy for unique and innovative strategies. For over 24 years, Mike has worked with Fortune 100 companies, health care institutions and philanthropic organizations throughout the country. He applies his wide range of expertise to create internal and external communication strategies, and create and implement patient gratitude campaigns.
Michael J. Beall
PRINCIPAL CONSULTANT AND COMMUNICATIONS PRACTICE LEADER
Michelle Boggs has more than 15 years’ experience in fund development, community partnerships, team and constituent building and strategic planning for nonprofit organizations.
Michelle currently serves as the Vice President of Advancement with the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. She is responsible for building long-term, high-impact relationships with philanthropic individuals and foundations, as well as providing strategic direction to Territory Advancement Directors and the regions they support.
Michelle Boggs, CFRE, MBA
OF COUNSEL
With more than 28 years’ experience in health care and benefits administration, Tim Brown brings an abundance of knowledge in information technology, operations management, process evaluation and initiative enhancement. He applies his expertise in project management and strategic planning to provide client support, as well as to oversee internal business operations, system processes and infrastructure strategies.
Tim Brown
VICE PRESIDENT OF OPERATIONS
Linda Roszak Burton brings 25 years of experience in aligning strategic goals and organizational values through leadership development and employee engagement initiatives. Linda also offers expertise to organizations looking to achieve structural alignment and enhance strategic goal planning. Combined with her research and evidence-based applications of positive psychology, contemporary neuroscience, gratitude and healthy work environments, Linda guides executives and their teams to achieve optimal organizations with progressive leadership.
Linda Roszak Burton, BS, BBC, ACC
PRINCIPAL CONSULTANT & CERTIFIED EXECUTIVE COACH
Jessica Carswell has more than 15 years of experience in fund development. She specializes in building systems that support diverse fund development teams, empowering volunteer boards in peer-to-peer fundraising and developing engaging donor stewardship programs. She also brings expertise in communications and annual giving programs.
Jessica Carswell, CFRE
SENIOR CONSULTANT
Lori Counts brings more than 30 years’ experience in leadership engagement, fund development, cross-disciplinary collaboration, strategic planning and performance management. She specializes in executive coaching, board of directors’ evaluation and development, as well as executive searches for health care organizations. As an accomplished development executive, her lead-by-example approach in managing philanthropic organizations is backed by expertise in public speaking, strategy development, constituent relationships and leadership advancement.
Lori Counts, CFRE
PRINCIPAL CONSULTANT & CERTIFIED EXECUTIVE COACH
Molly Davidson has over 20 years of experience in fund development and donor communication. Throughout her career working with both locally- and nationally- focused organizations, Molly has harnessed the power of stories to advance big, bold ideas and inspire change.
Molly Davidson
SENIOR CONSULTANT FOR COMMUNICATIONS
Rooted in more than 20 years of consulting experience focused on campaign assessment, planning and management; development program assessments and planned giving counsel, John Donovan brings considerable depth and perspective to health care organizations. His specialties include guiding organizations through the identification and engagement of their major gift donors and top prospects, coaching development and executive leadership, as well as implementing wave campaign techniques for more impactful engagement.
John F. Donovan, CFRE
PRINCIPAL CONSULTANT
Robert A. Emmons, Ph.D., is the world’s leading scientific expert on gratitude. He serves as Senior Science Advisor with Accordant Philanthropy® where he provides the latest expertise on the emotional and physical benefits of gratitude, its causes and its potential consequences for human health and well-being. Bob is a long-standing professor of psychology at the University of California, Davis.
Robert A. Emmons, PH.D.
SENIOR SCIENCE ADVISOR
Debbie Ferguson, CFRE, brings more than 20 years of nonprofit experience to Accordant. Her background includes patient program creation and development; data solutions, updates and implementation; as well as program evaluations outlining successes, areas for growth and next steps.
Debbie Ferguson, CFRE
SENIOR CONSULTANT FOR PHILANTHROPY OPERATIONS AND DATA
James Gold has more than 20 years of nonprofit experience, primarily within the health care and higher education sectors. His experience in major and planned giving includes creation and implementation of campaigns, while fully empathizing with and coaching staff relationship managers according to their varying levels of expertise. Using a donor-centered approach, James enjoys the creation of long-term relationships and the trust-building necessary to match donor interests.
James Gold
PRINCIPAL CONSULTANT
Erin brings 15 years of health care philanthropy experience and specializes in advancing community health through partnership building, grant making and strategic health system philanthropy. She also brings experience in social determinants of health, grateful patient fundraising, development performance management and trends in health strategy.
Erin Lanahan
PRINCIPAL CONSULTANT
With nearly 30 years of marketing experience, primarily in the health care sector, Melanie Manzi’s areas of expertise include content writing and development, project management, partnership coordination and event planning. Having various positions within the health care sector – nonprofit software and solutions, hospital business development, health benefits and hospice solutions – Melanie offers insights benefitting hospital systems, foundations and other health care organizations.
Melanie Manzi, PCM
DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS
Susan McSherry-Attwell brings more than 30 years of professional experience and community leadership to Accordant. Her positive and relational leadership style, developed during her earlier career in marketing, advertising and sales, set her up for success in philanthropic development.
Susan McSherry-Attwell
SENIOR CONSULTANT
Javin Peterson is a retired Air Force officer with over 20 years of operational, problem solving and collaborative team building experience. Javin’s strengths and passions are in creating long-term community-focused relationships that make community health engagement a neighborhood-to-neighborhood, block-to-block endeavor.
Javin Peterson
PRINCIPAL CONSULTANT
Elizabeth Powell brings to Accordant more than a decade of experience in project management, client, donor and alumni engagement, board leadership development, communications and program planning. She oversees client relations, team engagement, proposal management and special projects.
Elizabeth Powell, PMP
VICE PRESIDENT OF CLIENT ENGAGEMENT & SPECIAL INITIATIVES
Through 30 years in health care including 20 years advancing health philanthropy, Cindy Reynolds has gained extensive experience in health care executive leadership, physician relations and financial operations. Leading with innovative strategies, she has guided health systems and academic medical centers to successful mission fulfillment while demonstrating the high return on investment of philanthropy.
Cindy Reynolds, CFRE
PRINCIPAL CONSULTANT
Michelle Rovang has more than 25 years of experience in fund development, communications and strategic planning within health care and educational organizations. Michelle serves as a leading expert in the areas of culture alignment, leadership development and community engagement.
Michelle Rovang
PRINCIPAL CONSULTANT
Craig Sorensen provides a creative and strategic vision with more than 25 years of experience in cause marketing, branding and partnerships. In his role, Craig directs Accordant’s marketing and branding strategy and leads business development and client partnership efforts.
Craig Sorensen
VICE PRESIDENT OF MARKETING AND CLIENT PARTNERSHIP
Throughout her more than 20-year philanthropy career, Heather Starankovic has advanced the missions of large academic health systems, regional health systems, and community hospitals through her empowered coaching style leadership, strategic execution and a focus on relationship-based giving. She specializes in strategic planning, comprehensive campaign planning and execution, as well as major and transformational gift services and strategies.
Heather Wiley Starankovic, CAP, CFRE
PRINCIPAL CONSULTANT
Erin Stitzel is a health care philanthropy leader specializing in creating and implementing grateful patient strategies. With a focus on fostering clinician engagement, Erin creates partnerships to collaborate physicians, nurses and other frontline caregivers in philanthropic initiatives. She is passionate about building mutually-beneficial and meaningful connections with grateful patients to drive major gifts and has implemented successful patient engagement programs over multi-hospital systems.
Erin Stitzel, FAHP, CFRE
PRINCIPAL CONSULTANT
Brent Taylor is Managing Principal Emeritus of Accordant. He has an advisory role overseeing accounts receivable and accounts payable, in addition to facilitating relationships with legal and accounting partners.Brent brings the well-rounded perspective of a development executive who has not only led impressive fund development campaigns but also has experience as a financial consultant and accredited asset management specialist.
Brent A. Taylor
MANAGING PRINCIPAL EMERITUS
Andrew Watt has been a passionate leader and advocate for the social and philanthropic sectors for more than 25 years. He has significant experience creating successful coalitions in complex and challenging multi-national environments. He brings a robust international background in public policy development, advocacy, nonprofit management and philanthropy. Andrew serves as a creative leader in times of challenging organizational transition in both the US and the UK.
Andrew Watt, FCIOF
SENIOR PRINCIPAL
With over 20 years of experience in design, Livvy Zimmerman has shaped the visual communication of many businesses in various industries including health and wellness, manufacturing, art, retail, education and more. High standards for exceptional work drive her to exceed expectations by merging a passion for creativity with attention to detail.
Livvy Zimmerman
ART DIRECTOR