Breakfast Keynote

Terrence McNally
A consultant, speaker, writer, and coach for foundations, public interest groups, public agencies, and progressive corporations, Terrence McNally focuses on message and media mastery.

A graduate of Harvard, where he won its highest academic award, Terrence left teaching after a few years, and moved to entertainment to reach larger audiences. After twenty years as an actor in TV and film, record producer, music video director, and screenwriter (Earth Girls Are Easy — starring Geena Davis, Jeff Goldblum, Jim Carrey and Damon Wayans – now being developed as a Broadway musical), he realized he wasn’t fulfilling his vision.

He now hosts a radio interview program in Los Angeles (streaming globally at kpfk.org) envisioning “a world that just might work.” Guests have included Norman Lear, Ken Burns, Deborah Tannen, Jared Diamond, Robert Reich, Andrew Weil, Paul Krugman, and Doris Kearns Goodwin. His interviews appear in print at AlterNet.org and as audio files at temcnally.livedigital.com. Terrence is co-author with Hyla Cass MD of Kava: Nature's Answer to Stress, Anxiety, and Insomnia.

Terrence brings his wealth of experience in multiple roles and forms of media to help clients clarify and communicate their messages in order to maximize their impact.


Luncheon Keynote

Doug White
Doug White is a BoardSource senior governance consultant. Based in Washington, DC, Doug brings over 30 years of leadership experience in governance, fundraising, and organizational development to his consulting and training engagements. Throughout his career, he has worked with organizations such as the Smithsonian Institution, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Jewish Recovery Houses, the Wilderness Society, and Children's Hospital Boston.

In addition to his consulting work, Doug is an adjunct assistant professor of philanthropy and fundraising at New York University, where he teaches ethics-based philanthropy. He is the author of Charity on Trial published in 2007, and The Art of Planned Giving: Understanding Donors and the Culture of Giving, which was awarded the Staley/Robeson/Ryan/St. Lawrence Prize for Research by the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) in 1996. Doug has also written several articles for a variety of journals, including The Chronicle of Philanthropy, Trusts and Estates, and the Journal of Gift Planning, among others. Since 1981 he has spoken at over 750 conferences and classes on philanthropy, including the Association for Fundraising Professionals, the National Committee on Planned Giving, and the Association for Healthcare Philanthropy.

Previously, Doug served in leadership roles at two national planned gift and endowment investment firms, Kaspick & Company and Swerdlin-White, both of which were purchased by other investment firms. He has also worked as a development director and served as a long-term consultant to Blackbaud, where he developed ParaGon, one of the first planned giving software programs.