PROGRESSIVE CONSULTING SERVICES - Key Persons
As a founder and principal of Progressive Consulting Services, Ms. Campobasso has extensive international and domestic experience in leadership and organizational development and management, external diagnostic assessments, strategic planning, training, fundraising, executive coaching and leadership development, and project design and evaluation. Her clients include government agencies, non-profit organizations, schools and corporations working in the areas of environmental management, education and health. In addition, Ms. Campobasso has worked closely with teens developing leadership knowledge and skills.
Prior to establishing Progressive Strategies, Ms. Campobasso served as the Director of World Wildlife Fund's Organizational Development Program (ODP). Her primary responsibilities included assisting conservation organizations in Latin America, Africa, Asia and the United States in achieving their full capability to carry out conservation work. During her tenure at WWF, Ms. Campobasso co-authored three publications designed to enhance an organization's capability and create self-reliance: "A Guide to Financial Resource Development", "A Guide to Designing Effective Proposals" and "A Guide to Effective Human Resource Development."
Her previous experience includes five years as a management consultant with Coopers & Lybrand, an accounting and consulting firm that works extensively with clients in international business and the non-profit community. As a manager, Ms. Campobasso supervised several projects to design and merge specialized services into the core business programs. All of her projects involved extensive analysis of the external market and developing the capability of the organization to implement effective change.
Ms. Campobasso also served as the resident economic and policy advisor to the Government of St. Kitts and Nevis, West Indies for two years. She was responsible for devising a community strategic plan to improve the country's investment climate and employment prospects as well as designing and setting up a micro-enterprise program to promote ongoing investment and local production.
Prior to Coopers & Lybrand, Ms. Campobasso was the trade coordinator for Invest Indonesia, a private sector initiative created to provide the American business community the opportunity to meet with and invest in Indonesian companies. She also served as a Special Assistant to the Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Department of Commerce's International Trade Administration (ITA) and the Director of Office of Investigations, ITA, where she analyzed and drafted policy issues which arose in countervailing and antidumping duty investigations. Publications include "Unfair Trade in the United States."
In addition to her consulting practice, from 1996 to 2011, Ms. Campobasso served as Executive Director of Whitecap Foundation. She also managed Whitecap's program of "enhanced grant making" to provide program funding to grantees for the infrastructure, skills and expertise.