Great leadership starts with the fundamentals. Host Gay Gonnerman sits down with Dale Wright, Associate Vice Chancellor for Advancement at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, to explore his “Core Four” principles of leadership.
You’ll discover:
Dale’s Core Four: Attitude, Focus, Discipline, and Consistency
How collaboration drives stronger results across teams and organizations
Leadership lessons from two decades of fundraising success
🎧 Listen now to learn how consistent leadership and collaboration can transform your work.
Key Topics/Themes: Leadership principles, collaboration, fundraising management, team culture
About Our Guest:
Dale Wright is the Associate Vice Chancellor for Advancement at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Dale is an advancement executive with 20+ years of extensive experience in higher education and non profit fundraising with progressive responsibility in constituent involvement, leadership, management, and building and leading high performing teams.
He has a proven record of success in alumni affairs, program development and execution, securing and stewarding major and principal gifts, as well as multi-year comprehensive capital campaign experience, including three (3) $1B+ campaigns. As a skilled negotiator and collaborator, his ability to cultivate networks amongst a wide range of internal and external stakeholders to foster long-term relationships is unique.
He feels honored to work with remarkable benefactors, ambassadors, and volunteers to create deep and lasting impact.