TOM BECK

Partner / Consultant

Tom Beck is an executive, consultant, and organizational development leader with more than 39 years of experience helping businesses, nonprofits, and global organizations strengthen leadership, navigate growth, and build high-performing cultures.

He earned a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the University of Arizona and an MBA in Finance from Southern Methodist University.

Tom began his career as a founding partner of Blockbuster Midwest in 1986, serving in operational leadership roles during the company’s startup phase. Over three years, Blockbuster Video grew from a single store to more than 400 locations, generating over $450 million in annual revenue.

In 1989, Tom transitioned to serving nonprofit organizations and international NGOs, developing expertise in organizational assessment, executive coaching, governance, leadership development, and organizational effectiveness.

In 1992, he became a founding partner of Boston Chicken, Inc. (now Boston Market), where he helped lead the company’s rapid expansion. As Senior Vice President of Human Resources, he oversaw HR, Operations Support, and Call Center Operations for a workforce of more than 60,000 employees.

After leaving Boston Market in 1998, Tom spent 14 years consulting with businesses, churches, nonprofits, and international NGOs. His work focused on leadership assessment, governance, organizational design, team effectiveness, executive coaching, and aligning strategy, structure, and culture.

In 2013, Tom joined Compassion International, serving in increasingly senior leadership roles, including Senior Vice President and Chief People and Culture Officer. He provided strategic oversight for people and culture initiatives across 30 countries, leading functions such as talent acquisition, talent management, compensation and benefits, HR technology, payroll, change management, facilities, corporate communications, and public relations.

Throughout his career, Tom has been recognized for helping organizations scale effectively, strengthen leadership teams, navigate complex change, and cultivate cultures that support both performance and mission success. Having traveled to more than 85 countries, he brings a global perspective and deep appreciation for cultural intelligence, local context, and collaborative leadership.

JIM YOUNG

Financial Development Consultant

Jim began his career in higher education and research focusing on athletic performance and coaching. With a BA in Education from Northern Kentucky University and a Masters in Exercise Physiology from Texas A&M, Jim went on to teach at the university level, publish multiple research papers and perform research and testing for the U.S. Olympic Committee.

It was Jim’s love for wildlife conservation that first led him into fundraising and development work as a Regional Director for Ducks Unlimited (DU) in 1991. His success soon led to multiple moves across the U.S. and Canada diagnosing and turning around underperforming fundraising regions. Multiple turnarounds, development of creative new strategies and fundraising techniques resulted in Jim taking the lead of DU’s Grassroots organization, generating $100 million dollars in grassroots revenues, 60,000 volunteers and over 600,00 members annually. Within 6 months Jim and his team reversed a 5-year decline, return to growth that continued until Jim’s departure several years later.

In 2010, Jim followed his desire to serve Christ becoming SVP of Marketing, Development and Communications for one of the nation’s largest ministries, The Navigators. Taking responsibility for a declining donor base and stagnant income, Jim used his research and analytical skills to diagnose the problems and implement new strategies. Then, using his coaching skills, developed a team that led the declining 5-million-dollar organizational funding program to grow from less than 40,000 donors to over 200,000 in less than 6 years while growing net revenue from the Development function 10-fold.

In Jim’s last role he served as Executive Vice President of Partner Relationships for Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram where he again helped the ministry diagnosis a variety of weaknesses and developed strategies to address them. The organization is now experiencing 20% annual growth. Jim was proud to serve Living on the Edge as one of his first consulting clients.

Jim seeks to partner with faith-based and other non-profits to maximize the effectiveness of their donor development teams. With experience in all aspects of Development, Jim can provide an effective audit and analysis of any size program and develop plans to address weaknesses, returning growth and health to the organizations funding efforts.