Rick Augsburger

Background

About Rick Augsburger

Rick Augsburger is a founding partner of the KonTerra Group.Prior to joining the KonTerra Group, Rick served as the deputy director of the Headington Institute (2007-2008) and served as the Director of Emergency Programs (1996-2005) and Deputy Director (2005-2007) for Church World Service, an international relief and development agency. He has a B.A. in Business Administration and is a graduate of the Harvard Business School Executive Leadership program in Performance Measurement and Management for Nonprofit Organizations.Rick has also served as a regional advisor for the United States Agency for International Development-OFDA in East Africa and the associate director for Mennonite Disaster Service. He brings more than thirty years of experience in development and humanitarian programming. He has traveled extensively working on relief and development programs in over 70 countries. He has also led disaster rapid response teams and participated as a trainer and consultant for numerous humanitarian agencies.From to 2005 Rick served as the co-chair of the Interaction Humanitarian Policy and Practice Committee. He previously served as a member of the executive board of directors of InterAction. He also represented the US NGO community on the United Nations Inter-agency Standing Committee (IASC) working group. He has served on various boards, including IMA World Health, Foods Resource Bank, ACT Alliance, National Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster, Eastern Mennonite University's Center for Justice and Peacebuilding and Second Century Advisors.Specialties: Executive leadership Strategic planning Organizational developmentStaff Care/Wellness and ResilienceEmergency Preparedness, Response and Recovery, Planning, monitoring and evaluation Training and curriculum development