Rebecca Parkes is a Senior Advisor at Lindauer with more than 20 years of experience leading nonprofit, higher education, and healthcare organizations through periods of growth and change. She has held senior executive roles across the United States, United Kingdom, and Europe, building the development and operating infrastructure that allowed each institution to scale. Her expertise spans core areas: organizational leadership and governance, revenue and campaign strategy, team building and senior staff development, and change management through periods of institutional transition. She has partnered directly with boards and CEOs on governance and strategic planning, restructured development and operations teams, built major gift programs from the ground up, and led capital and comprehensive campaigns. Most recently, Rebecca served as Regional President, North for the United Services Organization, leading operations and fundraising across 22 states. She led through a major organizational and structural transition, consolidating standalone 501(c)(3) chapter charters into a single, unified region, work that required full executive authority, board member management, and staff retention through the change. As Chief Operating Officer and Chief Advancement Officer at T1D Exchange, Rebecca had dual operational and revenue authority, overseeing organizational operations while building and leading the advancement function. At Cancer Research UK, she served as Director of Philanthropy and Campaign, directing major gift and campaign strategy for one of the largest cancer research charities in the world. At NYU Langone Medical Center, she served as Director of Development, building major gift pipelines and managing senior fundraising staff within a complex academic medical institution. Rebecca began her consulting career as Vice President at Grenzebach Glier and Associates, where she worked alongside Lindauer CEO Deb Taft and advised university, healthcare, and nonprofit clients across the United States, United Kingdom, and continental Europe on revenue strategy, organizational structure, and campaign governance. Her consulting work has spanned organizational assessment, board governance, executive leadership coaching, and the operational restructuring required to position institutions for sustained growth. Rebecca continues her consulting work as Principal of RP Advisory, where she works with small to mid-size nonprofit organizations on growth strategy, organizational positioning, and senior leadership capacity, working with and at times stepping directly into executive or advancement roles on a transitional basis to help an organization bridge a gap or build toward what comes next. As Senior Advisor at Lindauer, Rebecca partners with boards and executives across the nonprofit, higher education, and healthcare sectors to navigate growth, transition, and leadership change.