Cris

Cris Ros-Dukler is a retired Chief Operating Officer of Public Allies, Inc, a national nonprofit leadership development organization. She is a reformer who led state regulatory agencies in Texas and Wisconsin, and served as Regional VP of a statewide nonprofit overseeing $12M budget and 400 employees, to improve foster and family care services in 2 states. While in Texas, she worked in the Governor’s Office and state agencies and led medical, social and financial services to support needy families. She was a partner in a venture that developed “electronic benefit transfer card” for distributing government benefits such as food stamps, reducing fraud and enhancing the dignity of public assistance recipients. After the business was sold, she joined UPC Health Network, a subsidiary of a multinational company, where she directed an $80M net revenue business leading about 350 employees in WI, IL and MI. She started a respiratory business in IL that became the most profitable product line in the network. She volunteers and is active in the community. She’s on the Board of Directors  of several local and national organizations. She is an executive coach and continues to be involved in efforts to change the face and practice of leadership and to develop leadership for social change. She has an M.S. in Educational Psychology from the University of Hawaii, Honolulu and postgraduate studies in psychometrics and early learning theories at UCLA and organizational and management science at the University of Texas in Austin.