Baker Consulting Associates, LLC

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• Alva Baker

  Chief Executive Officer

  With nearly four decades of management consulting experience, Alva Baker is recognized for her ability to communicate with all types of stakeholders from organization leaders to neighborhood residents, corporate executives to small business owners, elected officials to members of the faith community. Alva is the CEO of Baker Consulting Associates, LLC, a leading global consulting practice active in Dallas, New York and San Antonio. Their extensive track record of success led to BCA winning the assignment for the Road-to-Work Opportunity Program by the North Central Texas Council of Governments and the Texas Department of Transportation. RTWOP represents a huge step forward in workforce placement for communities of color in the Dallas region and BCA is a leading partner in that effort. Her broad experience has included such diverse clients as Bank of America, Center for Nonprofit Management, Dallas Area Rapid Transit, NationsBanc CDC, InnerCity Community Development Corporation, Texas Department of Transportation, Comerica Bank, and the City of Dallas. A 1987 graduate of Leadership Dallas, Alva holds an MBA from the University of Southern California. Previously, she held executive positions at Citibank (Vice President, Cash Management Consulting) and at Atlantic Richfield Company (Senior Financial Analyst). Alva is a frequent speaker at community events, government hearings, and professional organizations. She is very invested in her local community having served as PTA President for the Irma Rangel Young Women’s Leadership School and chair of the South Dallas/Fair Park Trust Fund. She has served on the boards of the United Way of Metropolitan Dallas, YWCA, Dallas Ballet, the Dallas Women’s Foundation, Junior League of Dallas, Mayor’s Permanent Supportive Housing Task Force. She is an active member of St. Luke’s United Methodist Church. Specialties: Community/Public Involvement, Workforce Placement Advocacy, Strategic Business Planning, Economic Analysis, Market research, Marketing, Advertising and Public Relations. BCA is a certified Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) and Minority/Women-Owned Business (M/WBE).

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• Will Baker

  Chief Information Officer

  As Principal at Baker Consulting Services International, Will is highly, sought after by for-profit and non-profit clients for executive coaching, strategic consulting, visioning assistance and fundraising. When the global partnership between BCA and BCSI was formed, Will’s United Nations background and academic credentials provided a unique niche that catapulted the endeavor forward. During his 15-year tenure at the UN, Will’s clients included the Committee of Religious NGOs at the UN, JPMorgan Chase, the International Association for Religious Freedom, the Unitarian Universalist Association, the World Conference on Religion and Peace and the UN NGO Committee on Youth. In recent years, his passion for education led him back to the classroom and the NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. While placed in the academic world, he‘s worked with dozens of nonprofit and financial institutions including Bank of America, STRIDE Inc, Deutsche Bank, Rikers Island Prison, and the Open Society Institute. Current clients include the NYU Global Debate Fund, housed in the Business & Society Dept of the Stern Business School, the International Public Policy Forum and Brewer Attorneys LLC. As a leading authority on debate training, strategy and youth development, Will is one of the top corporate debate consultants in NYC. Earlier positions included Chief Management Officer for the Unitarian Universalist UN Office, CEO of the Associated Leaders of Urban Debate and Director of Rhetorical Scholarship Laboratories at Cornell University.

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