Kimberly Whetstone

Program executive with responsibility for five direct service programs across three locations, serving unsheltered youth and emerging adults through integrated housing, life skills, workforce readiness, and mental wellness supports.

• Provide strategic and operational leadership to a 16-member multidisciplinary staff, cultivating a unified, coaching-based, trauma-informed culture.
• Oversee program quality, compliance, outcomes, and cross-site alignment, ensuring consistency while adapting to community needs and assuring grant compliance.
• Partner cross-functionally and achieved a 101% increase in grant funding in two years, strengthening organizational sustainability.
• Led a 30% expansion in housing capacity, increasing access to safe, stable housing and wraparound supports.
• Launched a Resident Leadership Council and Peer Advocate Program, embedding participant voice into program design, evaluation, and continuous improvement.
• Increased volunteer engagement from 3,600 to 5,730 hours annually in three years, strengthening program capacity and community connection.
• Serve as a visible advocate for marginalized populations through public speaking, partnerships, and systems-level collaboration, including sitting on the DuPage County Coordinated Entry Committee for the Continuum of Care.

Founder and principal consultant supporting nonprofit, faith-based, and social impact organizations in strengthening leadership, equity practices, and organizational effectiveness.

• Designed and facilitated equity, inclusion, and leadership development workshops and coaching groups for U.S.-based and global organizations across the United States, Germany, India, Mexico, South Africa, and Barbados.
• Led anti-racism and cultural humility workshops for 185+ nonprofit and faith leaders during periods of organizational and community transition.
• Established cohort-based leadership programs emphasizing gender equity, trauma-informed leadership, and inclusive supervision.
• Facilitated conferences empowering Alaskan First Nations leaders, nonprofit executives, community organizers, and church staff and volunteer teams.
• Selected panelist for the North American Refugee Highway Partnership Conference and the Justice Conference.

Senior leadership team member overseeing all internal and community-facing programs within a large, multi-program organization.

• Led strategy and operations for 7 departments, supervised 6 Pastors and 300+ volunteers annually.
• Designed and scaled programs impacting 5,000+ individuals annually, including case management and housing stabilization, recovery services, parent education, faith development, and community outreach events.
• Collaborated on fundraising efforts generating $400,000+ for nonprofit and community development initiatives.
• Established case management system serving 130 unhoused individuals annually, integrating mental health and social supports.
• Engineered new faith formation group model, increasing participation by 850% in four years through program redesign and leadership development.
• Expanded adult education engagement by 400% in two years.
• Scaled community-focused recovery programs by 500%, strengthening holistic family and individual outcomes.
• Spearheaded pastoral leadership by women in this context, resulting in an organizational shift in polity to inclusive leadership.

Transitional Housing on-site residential staff member, managed after hours care and facilitated resident development though through ensuring life skills training, cultivating relationship skills, and providing mentorship to program participants.

• Lived in the transitional housing program building and provided emergency response, social, emotional support and mentorship to homeless mother's ages 18-24.
• Designed and conducted life skills training in financial management, mental wellness, goal-setting, parenting, cooking, cleaning, and grocery shopping..
• Partnered with clinical and case management teams to ensure 24 hour support to residents.
• Provided feedback to program administers which resulted in policy changes and increased house parent retention from 2 years to 5+ years.
• Deescalated conflict and modeled healthy conflict management and healthy relationships with residents.