Mindy Wertheimer, PhD

Firm/Title / The Ostroff Group
Special Projects Consultant
Contact Information / 2901 Clint Moore Road, #421
Boca Raton, FL 33496
Phone: (561) 392-6799
Fax: (561) 392-6798
Email:
Location / o  Atlanta, GA
Areas of Focus / o  Cultivating your Philanthropic Community

Dr. Wertheimer is esteemed for the trainings on leadership development, team building, goal-setting, supervision, communication skills, and ethics that she conducts. As a consultant she works with nonprofit boards and lay leaders of foundations, professional associations, nonprofits, and educational institutions on strategic planning, visioning, new board member orientation, board governance, communications, and board roles.

Dr. Wertheimer is the immediate past-president of Jewish Family & Career Services in Atlanta. As chair of board development, she created and facilitated a board restructuring process after the merger of two agencies. As first vice-president, she facilitated a comprehensive strategic planning process, and, as president, she developed processes for the CEO evaluation, ongoing review/evaluation of all Agency programs, the establishment of a community advisory board, and enhanced Board communications. The Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta (JFGA) invited Dr. Wertheimer to co-chair and facilitate the Presidents’ Leadership Program, a training program for incoming Board Presidents of affiliate agencies and organizations and to speak on board governance for their leadership conference through the Institute of Synagogue Excellence. Dr. Wertheimer served as co-chair for the JFGA Jewish Community Centennial Population Study: 2006, and, currently, is co-chair of long-range planning.

Mindy R. Wertheimer, Ph.D., LCSW, is a clinical associate professor and the Director of Field Education in the School of Social Work at Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia. She received her Master’s of Science in Social Work from Columbia University and her doctorate in higher education administration and leadership from Georgia State University. She presents her work at national conferences and has published in professional journals. Her book The Board Chair Handbook was published by Boardsource in January, 2008.