The Consensus Council has three full-time program staff and one administrative staff. The Council’s program staff, together, has over seven decades of state, national and international experience in public policy, administration and law, project design and management, strategic planning, and alternative dispute resolution and collaborative problem solving. Two Council staff colleagues (Rose and Dick) also hold certification in Family Law Mediation. |
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| Paul Griffin, Senior Program Director. Paul has experience in program development, service delivery, management and planning in the public and private sectors. He holds a bachelors degree in psychology from Jamestown College and a Masters degree in education/counseling from North Dakota State University.
Paul has worked with Lutheran Social Services where he was the program and social service director at the Svee Rehabilitation Home, and with Catholic Family Services, where he was first the supervisor of guardianship services and later the Executive Director. Most recently he was the operations manager at Freedom Resource Center for Independent Living, Inc. He has served on many boards, task forces and working groups that have addressed a wide variety of public policy issues. He is currently the Board president of Partners, Inc. and a past president of the Guardianship Association of North Dakota.
Contact: 701-224-0588 x 106 or paulg@agree.org |
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| Dick Gross, Deputy Director and Legal Counsel. Dick brings experience in facilitation and strategic planning, process design and implementation at all levels in the public and private sectors. He holds degrees from Marquette University and the University of North Dakota School of Law and has taken post-graduate courses at the John F. Kennedy School at Harvard University and the Duke University Governors Center, and he has been an adjunct professor at the Georgetown University Law Center.
Dick served in state government as attorney to the legislature, Director of the Crime Victims Reparations office, General Counsel to the Workers Compensation Bureau, Chief Counsel to the Tax Department and Legal Counsel to the Governor. Following his years in state government, Dick headed the Council of Governors Policy Advisors, an organization of the top four policy advisors appointed by each Governor.
Contact: 701-224-0588 x 102 or dgross@agree.org |
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Shelly Dillinger, Executive Assistant. Shelly brings experience in state government, financial operations, human resources, education, documentation, coordination, meeting logistics and computer skills. She has experience in public, private, and non-profit business operations and holds a Associates degree from Bismarck State College
Shelly has worked with the Mental Health Association as the Marketing Manager and Office Manager, as a Audit Technician for the Office of Attorney General and as the Office Manager for a private contracting company and has served as a past board member of the Mental Health Association in North Dakota.
Contact: 701-224-0588 x 100 or shelly@agree.org |
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| Rose Stoller, Executive Director. Rose has experience in process design, facilitation, programming, implementation, legislative initiatives, community conversations, program evaluation, and presentations. She received a degree in social and behavioral sciences from the University of Mary.
Rose has past experiences as the Executive Director of the Mental Health Association in North Dakota where she received the Mental Health Services Award from the North Dakota Psychiatric Society and the Welcome Back Award from the Eli Lilly Company. She also worked, for 17 years, with the North Dakota Department of Human Services. She is a graduate of the Bismarck-Mandan Chamber Leadership program, is a past Chair of the Bismarck Human Relations Committee, serves on the Department of Human Services Institutional Review Board along with serving on many governing and policy boards statewide and regionally. Recently, Rose has joined the ranks of becoming a breast cancer survivor.
Contact: 701-224-0588
x 101 or rstoller@agree.org |
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