Consultant Profiles
These profiles are a sampling of the vast and varied experience that our ESC consultants bring to nonprofits in the Roaring Fork Valley.
Originally from Los Angeles, Lynda Palevsky has 35 years of experience in the nonprofit world. She was a founder and past board chair of the Los Angeles Children’s Museum, and has served as a board member of the Ploughshares Fund and the Tides Foundation. Lynda was president of the Aspen Film board for 7 years and is currently a member of the Grant Review Board of the Town of Snowmass Village and president of the Double E Foundation, a private family fund working on issues of social change. A member of the first class of ESC consultants, she works primarily on board and organizational development as well as leadership and coaching.
After graduating from Harvard Law School, Al Dietsch spent 15 years in the LA area where he was the board chairman of the West Side YMCA. He began skiing in Aspen in 1964, bought property in 1981, and moved here full-time in 1992. Al has served on the boards of ACES, the Given Institute, Rocky Mountain Planned Parenthood, the national board of Planned Parenthood, and as the first project manager of what is now the Aspen Camp School for the Deaf. Recently, he completed his term as chairman of the board of trustees of Aspen Music Festival and School, and he continues to serve as a trustee emeritus of the Aspen Insititue and as executive director of Spellbinders, a non-profit he started with his wife Germaine 11 years ago. Al was a founder of the Executive Service Corps.
Bill Wallace has extensive corporate experience in the oil and gas business, having worked with Texaco, CSX, and Plains Petroleum/Barrett Resources where he was President, Chief Operating Officer, and vice chairman of the board. In 1994, he moved to Evergreen, Colorado, and then to the Roaring Fork Valley in 2004. He has been on many boards of both private and public corporations, serving on audits, compensation, and governance committees. While living in New Orleans and working at Texaco, he served on the boards of the Children’s Hospital, United Way, Boy Scouts, and the University of New Orleans, and he started Unity for the Homeless. Since coming to the valley, he has become a member of the Society of Fellows of the Aspen Institute and serves on the boards of the Aspen Community Foundation and ESC.