CHANGE STRATEGIST AND CONSULTANT

BIOGRAPHY

 

Anita S. Duckor is a Change Strategist and Consultant. Ms. Duckor brings more than thirty-five years of multi-disciplinary organizational experience in both executive leadership and consulting.  

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Ms. Duckor is highly experienced in strategic planning, process and organization design, fund development, and governance. Ms. Duckor has demonstrated success in working effectively with leaders and staff in all types of organizations – public, private, profit, and nonprofit businesses, and local and regional government.

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Ms. Duckor’s consulting portfolio includes work with diverse and complex stakeholders from a wide range of public and private groups.  She has a proven track record of engaging these stakeholders in community building, visioning, and planning.  She focuses on well-defined strategy, clear outcomes, and measurable results.

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In her tenure at Northern States Power Company (a Minneapolis-based multi-state electricity and natural gas utility), she developed and managed groundbreaking new businesses, products and services.  Notable achievements include establishing a new energy services business venture, an affordable housing subsidiary, and a first-ever retail electric delivery-marketing department. Previously, while at San Diego Electric and Gas, she developed the first energy conservation program for commercial and industrial customers to be approved by the California Energy Commission.

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Ms. Duckor has served on more than 25 regional, state, and national governing boards for the arts, community and economic development, including affordable housing, trade associations, and social justice nonprofits.

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PRESENT BOARD POSITIONS:
Fresh Energy, Audit Committee, 2017-2019. Chair 2016-2014; Vice Chair and Governance Committee 2011-2013.
Growing Community Roots, Co-Founder and President, since 2014.

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SISTERS OF ST. JOSEPH of CARONDELET, ST. PAUL PROVINCE LEADERSHIP POSITIONS:
CSJ Ministry Commission, Chair since 2016.
Consociate Leadership Collaborative, Governance, Policies and Procedures Key Leader, since 2018.
Ministries Foundation Board, Executive Committee, since 2017; Development Committee 2016-2017, Governance Committee, since 2018.

PAST PUBLICLY HELD POSITION:
Minneapolis Public Library Board Trustee, 2001 -2007, President, 2006-2007,Chair, General Committee and Chair, Personnel Committee, 2002-2005.
In that role, Ms. Duckor led a strategic planning effort and facilitated a merger of two library systems and help raise more than $16.5 million for the new Minneapolis Central Library.  Ms. Duckor was the executive director of The Friends of the Minneapolis Public Library.

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EDUCATION and PUBLICATIONS:
BS degree, with highest honors and distinction, in Business Administration from San Diego State University; Minnesota Executive Program at the University of Minnesota

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•   "It's Time For a Robust Dialog on the Value of Our Public Libraries" MN Journal (November/December 2009)

•  "From Awareness to Funding" American Libraries(January/February 2009)