Niki Nicastro McCuistion

Niki Nicastro McCuistion

Niki Nicastro McCuistion

Niki Nicastro McCuistion, CSP: Implementing Transformational Change

“I would highly recommend Ms. McCuistion to anyone seeking a highly charged, powerful and engaging speaking professional, Fortune 100 consultant and business advisor who is now and will always be at the ‘top of her game.”

Niki is a principal in McCuistion Productions, Inc, a full service consulting firm, specializing in business and non profit strategies, leadership and board development and organizational behavior. Her goal: to help organizations and individuals develop and implement systems and strategies that lead to more informed, caring and productive choices. Her focus: building high performance teams. Niki has an MA in fund development from St. Mary’s University in Winona, Minnesota, and an MBA in Leadership and Governance from the University of Dallas. She is a member of Sigma Iota Epsilon – a business fraternity for honor students.

Over the last 25 years she has facilitated numerous strategic planning processes and provided practical hands on direction  and coaching, in English and Spanish , for profit and non profit leaders, in organizations as diverse as General Motors, the American Bankers Association, The American Medical Association,  CAS – Argentina, United Way to Ronald McDonald House and the World Affairs Councils of America, among others ,in developing long-term solutions to daily performance, funding   and people challenges.

Niki has served on numerous boards including the Children’s Cancer Fund, AVANCE-Dallas, Rehabilitation Center of Grayson County, the Association of Fundraising Professionals-Dallas and the World Affairs Council- DFW Chapters, to name a few. She has successfully assisted each of these organizations with their strategic plans and direction. She has earned the highest professional award the National Speakers Association bestows, the CSP (Certified Speaking Professional) as well as  the J. Charbonneau award for  contribution to the and speaking  profession.  She is a past president of the North Texas Chapter of the National Speakers Association and has served on several national committees, including the strategic planning committee.

Niki is co-founder of the McCuistion TV Program, now in its 20th year with Dallas, PBS.  Under her leadership as Executive Producer and Producer, the McCuistion Program has earned numerous Telly, Katie and Women in Communication Clarion awards for journalistic excellence. Niki is the Producer- Director of the Roots of War- the Road to Peace, a documentary on the root causes of terrorism and the events that led to 9/11. This work has taken her from Baghdad to Israel numerous times to interview government officials, business leaders, military, educators and everyday citizens. She has been honored as a Malone Fellow by NCUSAR, and as an Ambassador for Peace, by the International Peace Federation. She can be reached at: nikin@nikimccuistion.com www.nikimccuistion.com… 214-750-5157.

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    " Men should read this book too..."
    To begin with, this is an intelligent book - no small praise in the growing pantheon of efforts to explain philanthropy. While the idea of giving money to worthy causes will probably always be linked to words like "goodness" and "altruism," it often doesn't survive a critical analysis, particularly among those not intimately linked to nonprofits, because the feelings, mushy on their own, are usually unconnected to useful or concrete motivators. Which is, in its way, an irony of Women, Wealth, and Giving. Its main message circles around values and feelings, and yet it conveys concrete ways for women to make the most of who they are to help society. Margaret May Damen and Niki Nicastro McCuistion, in a way most current writers of philanthropy and the nonprofit world do not or cannot, have merged underlying passions with an intellectual authority to explain why women need to see themselves as donors separate from men.
    - Douglas E. White
    President & CEO of Charities Today
    Co-editor-in-chief of Giving Magazine.
    Author of “The Art of Planned Giving: Understanding Donors and the Culture of Giving (Wiley & Sons)

    Women, Wealth, and Giving is an inspiring story of how we enrich our lives on every level when we give to others. It is a call to action, for each one of us to get involved, to join hands and hearts in collaboration with others, to share, to give what we can, to volunteer, and to strengthen our commitment to our communities. Join me in making a deep bow to our writers for gathering the wisdom found here and showcasing these inspired women. May we all seek to join them and, by doing so, create a lasting legacy and makes a great leap forward for the love of humankind.
    - Tracy Gary
    Author, Inspired Philanthropy
    Founder, Inspired Legacies

    In Women, Wealth, and Giving, Damen and McCuistion document the tremendous influence and power boomer women exert today in philanthrapy. Their interviews and stories reinforce current research at the Center on Philanthrapy and among researchers around the country that boomer women have the potential to change the world.
    - Debra J. Mesch, PhD, Director, Women's Philanthropy Institute, Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University

    The book we've all been waiting for-the untold story of boomer women changing the world and themselves through philanthropic expression. This book is both an inspiration to boomer women and a wonderful acknowledgement of the transformational role they have served in both the growth and diversity of philanthropy today.
    - Ellen Remmer, President/CEO, THe Philanthropic Initiative, Inc.

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