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Bringing this belief to Elinvar’s mission driven clients delivers optimal results for them and the people they serve. An agile leader, Patti has the ability to quickly grasp the essence of critical organization issues and see a road to solutions that create the desired results. She applies this talent to solving the leadership challenges of both individual leaders and their mission driven organizations.

With over 25 years of experience in executive search, leadership development and board service, Patti's varied, and broad experience has been focused on understanding all aspects of what is needed for an individual to succeed when joining a new organization and what an organization can achieve when exploring leadership changes.

She applies this talent by advising leaders and boards on strategic planning, succession planning, board development and organizational assessments as well as the selection of new leaders for their organizations.

Patti began her career in recruiting following her tenure as a CPA. She gained financial and operational knowledge with two companies – Deloitte and International Paper Company. An honors graduate of the University of South Carolina with an undergraduate degree in Accounting, Patti has received numerous certifications in assessments related to leadership, DEI and team performance. She is also a writer and speaker on leadershipand equity issues. Patti completed the Harvard Business School Executive Education program – Governing for Nonprofit Excellence in 2012 and became a BoardSource certified and trained consultant in board governance in 2020.

Current board service includes Board member and Chair of NC Early Childhood Foundation, Board member and Past Chair for NC IDEA, member of the Advisory Council of NC Public School Forum and Corporate Board of North Carolina Independent Colleges and Universities.

Past board service includes Chair of the board of the Raleigh Durham Chapter of Association for Corporate growth and director of ACG Global where she received the Meritorious Service Award.

"It is with exceptional leaders at the helm that organizations are able to create value for all of their stakeholders."

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Elinvar clients in higher education, nonprofit, and government organizations benefit greatly from Kelley’s broad range of experience and associated relationships and networks. Kelley has never met a stranger! This attribute enables her to identify and attract top candidates for our clients.

Through her collaborative approach to program development and problem solving, Kelley has built a strong network of colleagues in the public and nonprofit sectors. She has worked with public officials to deliver civic education content to K-12 audiences, guided non-profit leaders in their fundraising strategy and implementation, helped connect community development professionals with needed training credentials, and taught hundreds of graduate students who are now working in the public or non-profit sectors.

As director for strategy and innovation at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's School of Government, she served as a member of the senior management team and led efforts in strategic planning, market research, and outcomes measurement.

As director of the North Carolina Civic Education Consortium, Kelley spent 10 years working in North Carolina’s K-12 education sector, building an organization and team that created and delivered tailored resources to K-12 civic educators. As a grant writer, she has secured more than $7.5 million in public and private grants.

She has a Master of Public Administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a Bachelor of Arts in Honors Interdisciplinary Studies, Urban Studies from the University of Georgia. More recently, she has completed the UC Berkeley Haas School of Business Executive Program in Innovation and Harvard Division of Continuing Education's Design Thinking Program. Kelley is currently president of the Frank Adoption Center Board of Directors. She has previously served in leadership roles on the Kids Voting North Carolina Board of Directors.

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Michael is Dean of the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters at Florida Atlantic University. The College of Arts and Letters houses 16 academic programs which offer 22 bachelor's degrees, 17 minors, 12 certificate programs and 19 graduate degrees including a PhD in Comparative Studies, with more than 4000 majors and 400 graduate students enrolled. The College features award winning authors, Guggenheim Fellows, Lannan Foundation Fellows, Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award winners, O. Henry and Pushcart award receipts, Fulbright scholars, Royal Historical Society Fellows, Grammy award nominees, and critically acclaimed artists and performers.

Dr. Horswell earned his Ph.D. in Latin American literature at the University of Maryland, College Park. He also holds a MA in Spanish from Middlebury College in Vermont, and a BA in Spanish and Business Economics from Wofford College in his native South Carolina. He specializes in the literature and culture of the colonial period as well as indigenous literatures of the Andes.

In addition to pursuing graduate studies in Spain and Argentina, he studied Andean culture and the Quechua language for two summers at the Bartolomé de las Casas Research Center in Cuzco, Peru (1995-1996) and has spent seven summers doing limited fieldwork with native Quichua speakers in Ecuador (2001- 2007, 2010). Before becoming the Dean of the College, Michael served as Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies (2012-2017) and Chair of the Department of Languages, Linguistics and Comparative Literature (2008-2012).

His first book, Decolonizing the Sodomite: Queer Tropes of Sexuality in Colonial Andean Culture (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2005), focused on indigenous gender and sexuality as tropes used in the representation of the conquest and colonization of the Americas. His interest in the confluence of sexuality and culture in the Hispanic world has led to two recent collections of essays co-edited with Dr. Nuria Godón, Sexualidades Periféricas.

Consolidaciones literarias y fílmicas en la España de fin de siglo XIX y fin de milenio (Madrid: Fundamentos, 2016) and the special issue of the Journal of Language and Sexuality on the theme of "Transnational Discourses of Peripheral Sexualities in the Hispanic World" (Vol. 5, no. 2: 2016). Dr. Horswell has also published articles and book chapters on important literary figures such as Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala and el Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, Latin American cinema and the Baroque in the Americas, including two recent volumes, one co-edited with Luis Duno-Gottberg.