Nonprofit Leaders Panel: Promoting Wellness, Preventing Burnout, and Fostering a Positive Work Culture

Anna Young, Executive and Leadership Coach, Anna Young Consulting

Anna Young is an accomplished executive and leadership coach and experienced senior leader. Her work includes individual coaching, team development and group facilitation. She creates the space for leaders to explore key opportunities and dilemmas and develop capacity to be more effective in their work, while drawing on their own strengths.

She has decades of experience facilitating teams in strategic planning, team building, discovery workshops and in organizing and leading team events that unlock new insights and build new connections and relationships. She has worked all over the world, is committed to and is skilled in allowing teams and individuals to tap into their own knowledge and wisdom and then reflecting truths that allow problems and opportunities to be seen from a new angle.

Originally from the UK, Anna has lived, worked and learned within many communities around the world including the Balkans, Indonesia, South and Central Asia. For the past two decades she has found her home in Portland in the Pacific Northwest of the United States where she lives with her two children, husband and rabbit.

She holds an Associate Coaching Certification from the International Coaching Federation and is certified through New Ventures West. She holds a Master’s Degree from Oxford University and a Post Graduate Teaching Certificate from Leeds University.

Jackie Kirouac-Fram, PhD, Executive Director, ReBuilding Center

Jackie Kirouac-Fram has more than 15 years of experience helping nonprofits thrive through stakeholder engagement, strategic collaboration, and striving toward justice through equity and inclusion.

Since March 2019, she has served as Executive Director at the ReBuilding Center, a Portland-based climate justice nonprofit that harnesses the power of reuse and repair of reclaimed building materials to reduce consumption and production of new materials, and to support home retention for low-income homeowners. She has spent her entire career in the nonprofit sector and believes in the power of communities to drive policy change toward justice.

Madalyn Bach, Development Director, The Rosewood Initiative and Board Member, NAO

Madalyn Bach is the Development Director of The Rosewood Initiative, a purpose driven organization in Outer East Portland that works with the community to create the conditions that make it possible for everyone in the Rosewood neighborhood to thrive. Over the past 18 years her work experience has included managing, analyzing, and improving the organization of city-wide programs to reduce barriers and provide better access to resources. Madalyn enjoys finding new places to eat (especially spicy food), cooking for friends and family, and finding weekend adventures to go on.

Yesenia Salas, People and Culture Generalist, OPB

For the last year and a half, Yesenia has been honored to be the People and Culture Generalist for OPB, Oregon Public Broadcasting. Prior to this, she was the HR Specialist specializing in recruitment at Morrison Child and Family Services, an organization whose mission is to provide culturally responsive, anti-oppressive mental health and substance use disorder treatment, support, and prevention services to children, youth, and families who are working through the effects of systemic racism, trauma, poverty, abuse, neglect, or other mental health needs. She graduated from Portland State University. Yesenia has been an HR consultant and speaker with the Nonprofit Association of Oregon in partnership with the Oregon Health Authority. Outside of work, Yesenia loves to spend time with family and going on outdoor adventures with her two dogs.