Mary M. Ogden

Mary Ogden is a principal partner in a business that believes strong non-profit organizations providing community based services are critical to creating and maintaining a healthy and vibrant quality of life.

For over twenty years, Ogden combined a career with an active consulting role for non-profit organizations, working through the Metro United Way volunteer consulting program in Louisville, Kentucky, and the Business Volunteers Unlimited consulting program in Cleveland, Ohio. She has worked with a variety of organizations both in terms of size and focus, ranging from multi-agency housing coalitions to ad hoc rent subsidy programs to neighborhood community centers to scholarship programs.

Ogden has a bachelor degree in history from the University of Kentucky and an MBA from the University of Louisville. In addition to being a diversity trainer, she is a certified Myers Briggs Typology Indicator (MBTI) instructor. Ogden is part of the program staff at the Center for NonProfit Policy (Cleveland State University - Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs) where she supports the Leadership Institute for Organizational Change and teaches a workshop on Outcome Based Organizations.

Currently Ogden is a Certified SOAR Consultant, and has been integral in the development of the SOAR not-for-profit examination. She is also a trustee for North Coast Community Homes serving as co-chair of the Resources Committee and a member of the Golf Event Committee. Additionally, Ogden is the co-chair of the United Way Capacity Building Investment Committee.

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