Meredith Sossman is an accomplished development professional, who has helped non-profits achieve better results through insight and experience in all aspects of giving and non-profit management. For nearly two decades Meredith has led and advised teams in university, healthcare, arts, food insecurity, senior care and living, and various missions to increase teamwork resulting in better fundraising results and effective relationship building techniques. Meredith is the Managing Director of MM&C Consulting and specializes in building effective and efficient systems and processes that support Board development, database structure and management, financial structure and audits, annual, major and planned giving philanthropy programs and individual executive and skills coaching. She has served as a campaign director, associate executive director, in-house counsel and chief development officer for a multi-million dollar non-profit. She successfully led and supported capital campaigns from inception to completion, consistently helping teams to exceed their goals. Meredith also serves as a Senior Consultant with plannedgiving.com, where she is engaged to help non-profits exceed their goals and expectations through inspired philanthropy and best practices in non-profit management. Meredith has extensive experience in fundraising, grant writing and management, human resources, board development, project management, and executive coaching with management and teams. Praised for insightful analytical methods combined with compassion and empathy, Meredith seeks to deeply understand the complex nature of her client’s business. She speaks at national and international conferences on database management, board training and development, fundraising, and nonprofit management.