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Ronald Dale Tompkins, Ph.D.

Ronald Dale Tompkins is the Managing Coach for TurnAround Social Sector Coaching. He is also CEO/Executive Director of 82nd Street Academics in New York City. He is certified to use the Gazelles Scaling Up Performance Platform and leads its Social Sector Initiative.

Education

Tompkins received the B.A. from Binghamton University, Ph.D. in Higher Education Policy from the University of Buffalo, and MBA in Finance and Accounting from SUNY Polytechnic Institute. In addition, he has completed Executive Education work at Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania. He was certified as a Management Accountant with the Institute for Management Accounting in 2019.

Publication

In 2019, Tompkins published Doing Bad at Doing Good - NonProfit Secrets Buried in the 990. He published occasional articles for the Forbes NonProfit Council and writes 'The One Minute TurnAround' for the website TurnAround Coaching

Professional Life

Tompkins worked as a Regional Director for a nonprofit in Buffalo, NY. He was also Senior Pastor of United Methodist Churches in Syracuse, NY and the Four Language Community United Methodist Church in Jackson Heights, NYC. Community Church was featured in the NY Times for its unusual appointment of four clergy to direct its work in English, Spanish, Mandarin and Korean. It was also featured as a site in the NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project.

Tompkins would also be the founder of two nonprofits including 82nd Street Academics, a school in New York City. At its peak, the school has had 150 staff and 1,000 students preparing for academic success.

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