Experience

Linda Johanek, Owner of LDJ Consulting, LLC, is an accomplished executive with more than 25 years of experience with nonprofit leadership, organizational development, strategic growth planning and design, project management, fund development, partnership formation, systems change, advocacy, and multi-disciplinary collaboration. Her commitment to social impact has guided her career as an executive, board member, community leader, and advocate.

Committed to nonprofit performance, she is a Leap Ambassador and served as Senior Director of the Leap Ambassadors Community, a global group of 350 nonprofit thought leaders, leader practitioners, forward-looking funders, policymakers, and instigators. Having facilitated an international online learning community, she provides distinct proficiencies in relationship building, engagement, and knowledge development.  

Linda served as CEO of Cleveland’s Domestic Violence & Child Advocacy Center, after her roles as Fund Development Director, Crisis Counselor, and Group Facilitator. She oversaw two capital campaigns and program expansion, while implementing and scaling national models such as the Safe Haven Supervised Visitation Program. Linda initiated and secured funding for the planning of a new Child Advocacy Center, uniting key stakeholders to design a transformed system of care, laying the groundwork for an initiative that has since been successfully implemented. She also led all aspects of a complex nonprofit merger in the child and family services sector.

At Cleveland State University (CSU), Linda was a Faculty Liaison between undergraduate/graduate students in their social work internships and the CSU Social Work Department. She was also an Assistant Teacher for a Mediation Graduate course at CSU, a Mediator with Cleveland Mediation Center, and a Trainer of Mediators.

Linda serves on the board of The Alcohol Drug Addiction & Mental Health Services of Cuyahoga County. She has also served on other nonprofit and funding boards, including  Community Shares, Cleveland Mediation Center, and as the President of the Ohio Domestic Violence Network.