https://www.mevvn.com/about-michael daily 0.75 2024-01-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec321c2af33de48734cc929/1589847904871-IJY33BXSJQA0OIFROI1H/image-asset.jpeg Michael Phillips - Michael Phillips Michael is passionate about helping people live a better life. His determination to drive social change with lasting transformational benefits to society has led Phillips to become an innovator and thought leader in social entrepreneurship and education. He is the founder of LifePrep and currently serves as the Chief Engagement and Fulfillment Officer for the TD Jakes Foundation. As a published author and inspirational speaker, Phillips has become a champion for children and families around the world. He is the Chairman of 50CAN and serves as a board member of KuriosEd. Michael is a former state board of education member, served as Senior Pastor at Kingdom Life Church, was an inaugural National Voices Fellow and provides consulting services in the education and non-profit space, leadership development, executive coaching and public speaking. His powerful story and message of collateral hope has transformed many lives and helped to revitalize communities. https://www.mevvn.com/what-we-do daily 0.75 2022-05-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/627671a529e7ee73e129481f/1651934752060-P4BCUWX3JWMS70VNKSN8/Listen+and+Learn+%281%29.png About Us https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/627671a529e7ee73e129481f/1651934893263-WZ3L53UURQUYCTP4FTOZ/Identify+the+Issues+%281%29.png About Us https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/627671a529e7ee73e129481f/1651934909697-XS9SV36LKMHERLRPG31P/Design+a+New+Reality+%281%29.png About Us https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/627671a529e7ee73e129481f/1651934925234-HG4Y0ULM0SXJPZ3CHTVV/Implement+%281%29.png About Us https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/627671a529e7ee73e129481f/1651949791331-S14P3WZDBXTWVUOL11VW/unsplash-image-mV4GwTDD8Tw.jpg About Us “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing” - Walt Disney THE WHY. We believe catalyzed employees are invested employees. A paradigm shift is needed to reflect the future world of work. THE WHAT. Design an “outside-in” framework for organizations where employees catalyze the organization. THE HOW. Understand the components of a successful organization and row towards them. 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After working for 17 years as a finance and business executive with the DuPont Company in Brazil and the United States, Riccardo and his family decided to make the U.S. their home. He launched an art distribution business, placing Latin art in the U.S. art distribution system, leveraging a brick & click strategy. His journey in education reform began in 2004 as deputy director of the Latin American Community Center (LACC), the largest Latino-serving agency in Delaware, where he oversaw its business operations and lifelong-learning programs serving ages 0 to 101. He was the founding board treasurer of Academia Antonia Alonso, a dual language charter school serving students coming from underserved communities, and led the redevelopment of an 11-story, 475,000 square foot bank building, creating a world-class educational environment originally intended to house four charter schools serving city students in Wilmington, Delaware. He has led school support organizations and has worked as a consultant supporting charter schools as they sought to grow their operations. Before joining the mevvn team he was the co-leader of a 2,000 student, dual language (English & Greek) K-12 charter school, overseeing all its operations on a 35-acre, multi-building campus. Riccardo brings extensive C-Suite experience supporting non-profit organizations with budgets of up to $30 million. He has facilitated strategic planning processes with boards and organizational leadership teams, subsequently working with them in the design and implementation of organizational structures, transforming cultures from centralized to distributed decision-making models focused on delegation and accountability. Riccardo received a BA from Brown University, and an MBA in quantitative analysis from Northeastern University. He is a past education fellow with the Pahara Institute and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network. He enjoys solving wooden jigsaw puzzles with multiple solutions, and until recently was the lead beta-tester for Stave Puzzles, the premier wooden jigsaw puzzle producer in America. He enjoys languages, collecting art and watching foreign movies. 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She enjoys helping organizations bring their vision to life by assessing, developing and supporting people, designing systems and processes to enhance organizational culture and simplify cross team workflows, and ensuring mechanisms are in place to monitor and measure impact. Vallay is a former classroom teacher, an AmeriCorps state program coordinator, an early literacy coach and served as education policy director for St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman. In 2009, Vallay ran successfully to capture a citywide school board seat and was elected as school board director for Saint Paul Public Schools. In 2011, Vallay began a decade long journey working in education policy and advocacy to ensure kids had access to high quality schools. During that time, she grew the network to over a dozen, created multiple fellowship programs, oversaw the transfer of programs and assets from two multi-million-dollar organizations into the national network, doubled and diversified the organization’s funding and invested in professionalizing their human resources and operating systems. Vallay spearheaded the creation of Expedition Advocacy, a bespoke online platform that allows local leaders to plan, monitor, and track their work. After a decade of work in the education advocacy space Vallay launched mevvn, LLC to support nonprofit, small business and startup leaders in transforming the workplace for their employees and positively impacting the communities they serve. In addition to her management consulting practice, Vallay also launched a non-profit organization called The 21 Collective to ensure that marginalized communities have opportunities to be happy, healthy, and thriving. Vallay was born in a refugee camp in Thailand and grew up in the Midwest. She received both her BA and M.ED from the University of Minnesota, serves as a mentor through KIPP Forward- NYC, serves on several national steering committees, is an alum of the Pahara-Aspen Fellowship program and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network. She enjoys the outdoors, cooking and eating, traveling and exploring new destinations. Vallay and her husband live in Maryland with their three children. https://www.mevvn.com/about-mee daily 0.75 2024-01-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/627671a529e7ee73e129481f/39bd7d6a-9e7b-4789-98d6-8e652abe060c/1B4E9110-4B84-4526-8FC4-09DD12356EB1.jpeg Mee Moua - Mee Moua Mee provides training, facilitation and coaching support for individuals and organizations in planning, leadership, and equity transformation. She is passionate about democracy building, heart leadership and making visible the interconnectedness among peoples. Some of her clients are local and State elected officials, community and national foundations, colleges and universities, and non-profit organizations undertaking equity-centered transformation. She was the President and Executive Director of Asian Americans Advancing Justice-AAJC and the Vice President for public policy and advocacy for the Asian and Pacific Islander American Health Forum, both of which are leading Asian American civil rights organizations based in Washington, DC. Prior to her work in Washington, DC, she was an attorney and a member of the Minnesota State Senate. She was the first Hmong American to be elected to a state legislature in the United States, served three terms before retiring in 2010, and served as the Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee in her final term. Mee was born in Laos and came to the United in 1978 as a refugee. She grew up in the midwest, attended Brown University, received her MPA from the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin and earned her JD from the University of Minnesota Law School. She is a recognized public speaker, leadership mentor and relationship weaver. She currently works and lives in Maryland with her husband and their three children. https://www.mevvn.com/about-fiona daily 0.75 2024-01-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/627671a529e7ee73e129481f/f77cc5e7-fb8b-40b6-a7d7-37cee449b898/9D3E9A8F-B5E7-457E-AAF6-B6FD2D618910_1_105_c.jpeg Fiona Hoey - Fiona Hoey Fiona is a start-up and communications savant playing pivotal roles in the formation of a 24-hour news channel, a national public policy organization, and a communications directorate inside a high- profile international ministry. Most recently Fiona was the Vice President of Campaigns for a nonprofit education advocacy and policy organization. While there, she shaped communications tactics and strategies resulting in a high level of brand penetration among legislators, funders and the press. She provided media training to staff and Executive Directors, garnering hundreds of media hits as well as op-ed placements. Prior to that Fiona spent over a decade in network broadcast news covering the biggest stories in the early aughts and managing editorial content, anchors, producers and writers in St. Louis and New York City. 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After excelling in his studies at the University of Minnesota, he graduated with distinction, earning a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science. This academic background, coupled with his inherent curiosity, set the foundation for a remarkable journey in the realm of information technology and software development. In December 2001, Chris started his professional leadership journey as a Software Engineering Manager at GMAC-RFC in Minneapolis, Minnesota where he led several software development teams for over six years. His work at GMAC-RFC was an effective launch pad for his career and in November 2007, he transitioned to Lawson Software as Lead Software Engineer. In 2012, Chris took up the role of Assistant Vice President of Software Development at Stonegate Mortgage in Indianapolis. Chris founded and led the IT Solution Delivery organization, successfully grew the team from zero to 85 members and managed an annual budget of $7.5M. He made significant strides in stabilizing IT solutions and improving the production incident rate by over 95%. His unwavering dedication led to successful IT solutions for regulatory audits and several acquisitions, eventually culminating in Stonegate's Initial Public Offering. Chris embraced entrepreneurship in 2018, co-founding TPO Solutions in Saint Paul, Minnesota. As Chief Technical Officer, he was responsible for the technical development of innovative technology products for the mortgage finance industry, including the Athena platform, a cloud-native core application suite that greatly bolstered TPO's value proposition. Over the last five years, Chris joined Homepoint Financial first as Senior Managing Director of Software Development and then assumed the role of Chief Information Officer. At Homepoint, he oversaw a team of 260 engineers, developers, and IT professionals, managing a hefty $50M technology budget. He successfully expanded the software development organization and navigated the company through a hyper-growth phase, resulting in a successful Initial Public Offering. During his tenure, Chris led the transformation of Homepoint's digital landscape and stabilized its software development organization. He spearheaded the implementation of innovative practices such as Team Topologies, DevOps, Test Automation, Telemetry, and Alerting, that brought about substantial improvements in deployment frequency and a reduction in MTTR (mean time to restore). Chris is recognized as a down-to-earth leader who values honesty, integrity, resilience, and sound judgment. His deep expertise spans various IT domains, including product development, enterprise architecture, software engineering, security, cloud infrastructure, and vendor management. https://www.mevvn.com/about-connor daily 0.75 2024-01-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/627671a529e7ee73e129481f/f0780bb3-dc7c-4692-9a85-b00f3bb10c95/Cons+Pic.jpg Connor Moua - Connor Moua A first generation college graduate, Connor received a full scholarship to attend Augsburg College where he recently graduated from in spring of 2023 with a Bachelors in Marketing. Connor has a deep passion for ensuring marketing efforts, mainstream or niche, connect with diverse audiences and incorporates this philosophy into his work. During the summer of 2022, Connor worked at Zombie Chicken Studios to support marketing and communication efforts for a national nonprofit client. In this capacity, Connor produced business and marketing research and proposal; spearheaded the creation of paid Facebook advertisements; planned, created original content and scheduled regular social media content for a handful of platforms; and reviewed analytics to ensure audience engagement was meeting performance goals. Connor worked in custom service related jobs throughout high school and college. He consistently delivers projects on time and is praised for customer facing relationship management skills. Connor works well under pressure and is a fast learner. He is an excellent contributor to team projects but also works well independently. Connor’s colleagues and friends describe him as an eternal optimist which helps productivity and trust building in high pressure environments. As a native son to the great state of Minnesota, the Land of 10,000 Lakes, Connor’s blood bleeds gold and purple as he cheers on the Minnesota Vikings during football season. When the Minnesota tundra freezes over, Connor switches jerseys and pledges loyalty to his hometown team, the Minnesota Timberwolves. In his spare time, Connor enjoys playing intramural basketball, gaming, keeping up with the latest fashion trends, and exploring new adventures with friends and family. Connor currently lives in his hometown of Saint Paul, Minnesota. https://www.mevvn.com/about-evy daily 0.75 2026-02-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/627671a529e7ee73e129481f/25123a77-87e9-4e44-9e53-e25feab575f4/059BD33D-8C85-44B6-A4B1-CAEC7F959C3A_1_105_c.jpeg Evy Valencia - Evy Valencia Evy Valencia is a strategist and advisor with experience across philanthropy, state government, and national organizations. She has worked alongside local, regional, and national foundations, public-sector leaders, and multi-partner initiatives, including the Walton Family Foundation and then Governor Hickenlooper of Colorado, supporting complex efforts that span institutions, geographies, and funding sources. Over the past decade, Evy has overseen more than $150M in philanthropic investments and supported community-led strategies that secured $300M+ in federal and state funding. Her work focuses on helping organizations make sound strategic choices in politically and financially constrained environments. This includes supporting nonprofit and executive leaders through organizational transitions, such as wind-downs and the launch of new initiatives. Evy brings a systems-level perspective shaped by hands-on experience managing cross-sector partnerships and supporting execution at scale. She is known for clear judgment, concise communication, and an ability to translate ambition into decisions and structures that hold up in practice.