MariaElena Del Valle

MariaElena Del Valle is an internationally respected bilingual consultant, facilitator, and mediator specializing in economic development, improving workplace culture, and the design and delivery of creative strategic interventions that build individual and organizational capacity to sustain long-term success in complex and diverse organizations. Before joining Seed Commons, MariaElena was most recently Training Manager and Workforce Innovations Consultant at Paraprofessional Healthcare Institute (PHI), the nation’s leading authority on the direct care workforce. During her 17-year tenure at PHI, MariaElena implemented the PHI Coaching Approach® in long-term care organizations that serve elderly and people with disabilities throughout the US. Prior to joining PHI, as Senior Consultant for the New York Support Center for Nonprofit Management, MariaElena designed and facilitated organizational assessment, capacity building, strategic planning, sustainability, and team and leadership building for a wide array of nonprofits including Services for the Underserved, Literacy INC, Alianza, National Latino Alliance to End Domestic Violence, Howie the Harp, and Manhattan Neighborhood Network. As Assistant Director of the Bronx-based Women’s Housing & Economic Development Corporation (WHEDCO). MariaElena spearheaded an innovative culinary arts training program for Welfare-to-Work recipients. MariaElena has provided technical assistance and helped implement grassroots campaigns for social and economic justice with farm workers through California Harvesters, Inc., in Bakersfield, California; restaurant workers through Mujeres Obrera in El Paso, Texas; and homeless people with HIV/AIDS through PROCEED, Inc., in Elizabeth, New Jersey.