Volunteer Leadership Engagement

"I have had the pleasure of knowing Olga for more than 15 years. She was an advocacy consultant when I worked for a large cancer organization, and I was impressed with her professionalism, her persuasive writing, her knowledge of online marketing, and her client service skills. We stayed in touch and I followed her career as she worked for several large nonprofit organizations. When she started LemonSkies, I was thrilled to bring her on as a consultant to the cancer advocacy organization I lead. She has helped us with our online fundraising, social media, and market. She is a creative thinker, skilled marketing and fundraising professional, excellent writer, and strategic advisor. We are grateful for her help and counsel."

"Lemon Skies helped us understand our storytelling needs and provided creative ideas to tackle the issue, resulting in useful tools that helped us gather impactful content. Much needed to tell the amazing stories of Special Olympics athletes."

"As the account lead Olga was client focused leading her staff to provide marketing strategy, program evaluation, and marketing content that furthered our program goals. I greatly valued her creativity and ingenuity. When we said no, we've always done it this way she pushed us to think "why not" and to try something new. And she could always come up with cost effective ideas to cater to a non-profit budget. Olga is such a strategic thinker and can help find efficiencies and improve processes to get to a better work product. Finally, I always appreciated Olga's dedication to building team and keeping the work fun. You will love working with her!"

"Olga literally changed the way Special Olympics engaged and solicited funds via the digital medium. She put new protocols and systems in place, initiated a true digital cadence of communication, and raised LOTS OF MONEY for children and adults with intellectual disabilities. She's creative, smart, collaborative, laser-focused and tenacious--the perfect qualities for any development team member."

"I had the pleasure of working with Ryan during my tenure at Special Olympics. He is a consummate professional and was always available to help our group meet the needs of corporate partners. He is extremely knowledgeable in social media and in constant pursuit of increasing his knowledge base to leverage opportunities. His passion and commitment add to the list of his talents that make him a great asset for any organization."

"Olga and I worked side by side in building and executing an integrated, multi-channel donor program. She managed (juggled!) all facets of the online channel -- strategy, creative, and analysis -- and led our migration to a new eCRM. Even with all that to her credit, perhaps what I most appreciated about Olga was her success in breaking down some of the internal silo walls, creating stronger collaboration among the various "owners" of our organization's online experience."

“I had the pleasure of working with Ryan on a panel presentation given at Digital Capital Week. Although much of his work is in the digital space, he's also a compelling and engaging speaker. He has a talent for taking the complex work that he does and distilling it into the essential elements, making it relevant for a diverse audience. I look forward to working with him again soon!”

"I have worked with Olga for 15+ years. She is an expert in direct response marketing and is often one of my "wise council" go-to's when I'm tackling a new topic or program and just need guidance. She's a no-nonsense manager and is great at building teams while getting it all done. I always look forward to another opportunity to work with Olga."

"I had the pleasure of working with Olga for 3 years at the American Diabetes Association. Throughout our time working together, I was able to witness firsthand her ability to not only consistently envision, develop and see through successful campaigns for the betterment of the organization, but transform an entire online fundraising program. Olga is extremely strategic, and always striving to not just solve the problem for this month or quarter, but set a program up for great successes in the long term. Not satisfied with the complacency of what is working right now, Olga makes a point to always be up to speed on the latest trends and technologies in the industry, and apply them to the benefit of whatever project she is managing. I learned so much from working alongside Olga. I sincerely look forward to the opportunity to work with her again in the near future."