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Meet Bobbi Bilnoski, an expert management and strategic planning consultant, speaker and facilitator who helps clients assess their organizations and create a sustainable future. Clients choose Bobbi not only for her expertise, but also because of her positive energy, inspiration, and personality. She has strong people skills and knows how to help groups achieve “CONCINNITY” – the harmony of interrelated working parts relating to each other and to a whole. Bobbi established her consulting practice in 1995 with her passion for providing communities and organizations the tools and processes that help them work together, do their best thinking, and create positive change.
Passion for Community - Bobbi’s career started as an “M Streets” civic leader in Dallas. Her experience spans 20+ years and many hard-won victories at Dallas City Hall in crime, transportation, zoning, and community organizing. Her grass roots leadership experience gives her a unique perspective. Bobbi is a master at designing and executing consensus-based processes. Raised as an Army BRAT all over the world (Born, Raised, and Transferred), Bobbi learned to embrace change. She “commands the room” to deal with big, challenging personalities and environments, and competing agendas – yet never wavering from helping a group achieve their goal of a share vision or mission.
Passion for Leadership - Bobbi’s passion for learning has taken her to a wide variety of organizations. She loves researching and getting to know her clients and their unique set of challenges. A few highlights in her career are:
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•Landmark Adventures – Bobbi owned a cartoon map company for local merchant associations, tourist destinations and local historic areas such as Knox-Henderson, Greenville Avenue, Cedar Springs, and the one for the State of Texas.
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•At Preservation Dallas, Bobbi established a Community Empowerment process to help citizens organize their communities and access city government for the help they need to fulfill their visions. She has created dozens of neighborhood associations in Dallas, and multiple new programs that resulted in citywide policy change.
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•As Executive Director of the Interaction Institute for Social Change Bobbi worked to empower community leaders with skills to lead positive change and bring about a just and sustainable world.
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•Bobbi secured a $250,000 grant for the Dallas Police Department to train 12 officers to teach Facilitative Leadership to 800 officers, helping them create a culture change to participatory management.
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•With the Richardson Independent School District Bobbi consulted with DalMac Construction to lead the Design/Build team of architects and contractors in a $200M bond project, the very first design-build municipal project in America.
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•Leadership America and Leadership Texas have worked with Bobbi since 2005 to identify and design programs to meet the changing needs of women leaders across the country.
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•After completing Dallas and Collin County Children’s Advocacy Center strategic plans, Bobbi joined the CACTX board, the statewide membership association, representing all local children's advocacy centers (CACs) in the Lone Star State.
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•Bobbi serves on the board of the North Texas Social Enterprise Alliance to help nonprofits decrease dependence on grants and contributions and develop financially sustainable business models.
Passion for Learning - in 1999, Bobbi collaborated with the Center for Nonprofit Management (CNM) to research best practices and reinvented nonprofit organizational assessment and strategic planning. Bobbi taught CNM her Balanced Scorecard process, Maturity and Logic Models to help organizations with outcome-based programming. Bobbi is committed to her mission of “helping people and organizations achieve their most noble aspirations.” Among her expansive list of clients, here are a few:
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