Desiree del-Zio Walker

Chief Executive Officer and Principal Consultant @D.E.&c Consulting

Charlotte, NC, US

An entrepreneurial-minded business owner with 15 years of experience supporting, advising, and guiding organizations and teams toward quality practices. Possesses working knowledge of theoretical and practical organizational change planning, including gap analysis, program design and re-design, management systems, and monitoring and evaluation systems.Extensive experience building high-performing teams using transformational and servant leadership methods to address individual and group performance needs. Advanced knowledge of Head Start Program Performance Standards, Head Start Act, Code of Federal Regulations, and Office of Head Start Focus Area One and Focus Area Two Monitoring Reviews. Assist organizational leaders in developing sustainable standard operating procedures, monitoring protocols, and developing training plans and implementation systems toward improved program outcomes.Conduct mock monitoring reviews using the Office of Head Start monitoring protocols to prepare organizations for virtual, hybrid, and onsite reviews.Lead self-assessment planning and implementation toward improved data collection, aggregation, and analysis to understand risk and opportunities for continuous improvement.Direct gap analysis and change planning to promote organizational and team achievements and establish diversity, equity, and inclusion structures and systems.Proficient in transformational and servant leadership approaches, coaching executive and management teams with experience using multi-step practical approaches to motivating groups and advancing organizational culture.Understand innovative practices of Head Start program governance, management systems, early childhood education, health and mental health services, family and community engagement, Eligibility, Recruitment, Selection, Enrollment, and Attendance (ERSEA), and fiscal capacity, infrastructure, and implementation.Serve as a key contributor to the Early Intel Quality Improvement Network.

University of San Diego

Master of Arts (MA), Nonprofit Leadership and Management

California State University San Marcos

Bachelor of Arts (BA), Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies

University of Southern California

Doctor of Education (Ed.D), Organizational Change and Leadership