Tammy Dowley-Blackman

Tammy Dowley-Blackman is a graduate of Oberlin College and Harvard Graduate School of Education and is an entrepreneur, leadership expert, nonprofit executive, philanthropic leader, and professor. Dowley-Blackman is the former executive director of two nationally-affiliated nonprofits and the manager of a specialized higher education recruitment program. She is the principal of the organizational development consulting firm tdb group and the president and CEO of Looking Forward Lab, created to work with emerging professionals on the intentional design of their professional and personal lives.

She has conducted over 150 presentation and workshop trainings on topics as varied as: arts management, board development (recruitment and retention), career and professional development, diversity and inclusion, educational issues, fundraising and grant writing, and leadership. She has also served as a professor of nonprofit management and a senior fellow for the Institute of Nonprofit Management and Leadership at the Boston University School of Management.