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Degania Group

Early in her career, Stacy spent time in various consulting roles for Fortune 500 clients including Price Waterhouse, United Airlines, FedEx, Lexus, Royal Bank of Canada and PepsiCo Worldwide Restaurants. She gathered business requirements, identified learning objectives and developed instructional and interactive design strategies to build electronic performance support systems and training programs supporting corporate goals and initiatives. Stacy also worked at Xerox Corporation, managing multinational development teams and workgroups for Global Knowledge and Language Services to provide innovative documentation, training, electronic performance support for in-house sales, marketing, analyst and service teams, as well as customers.

After serving as a Director of Information Technology at Pepperdine University, Stacy founded The Degania Group to create and identify opportunities for closely-held companies to save money, find money and make money. Implementing the practical aspects of business, communication, operational and organizational strategies, her current endeavors have enabled her clients to move their businesses forward and achieve and exceed their goals in less time, with less effort. Her recent projects include resolving partnership disputes, positioning companies for growth, alliance development and merger integrations, turnarounds, establishing owner exit strategies and succession planning. Other projects have included developing a company's infrastructure – including position assessments, operations "playbooks" and variance analysis systems. She is also regularly engaged to design and deliver professional development workshops.

Stacy is a frequent speaker and panelist on topics including negotiation, communication, marketing, alliances, new ventures and business culture. She has been a guest lecturer in Pepperdine University's Marketing and Entrepreneurial Strategy classes. She was also invited to speak at the Business School's 2005 Magill Business and Ethics Symposium on "Marketing New Ventures." Most recently, she was a judge for the 2006 New York Enterprise Report Small Business Awards, evaluating the best practices in Human Resources.

Previously, Stacy was an Adjunct Professor in Pepperdine University's full-time MBA program. In 2005, Stacy was invited to develop a new class for the Center for Management at NYU, "Building and Maintaining a Professional Practice," which she continues to teach.

Stacy is best known at the University of Michigan for her development of writing workshops and non-violent conflict resolution programs in multiple Southeastern Michigan Correctional Facilities. During her tenure running the debate clubs, a discussion with inmates highlighting the successes of programs was published in Praxis III. Her subsequent articles, published in industry trade journals, were used as case studies and resource guides in orientation and training programs for the University of Michigan's Center for Community Service Learning.

Currently, Stacy is on the Host Committee of the Young Survival Coalition, a non-profit network dedicated to the concerns and issues unique to young women and breast cancer. She actively promotes the Scholar Rescue Fund, a program providing support and safe haven to scholars around the world, threatened as a result of their academic work. Additionally, she provided pro bono management training for the JCC Metrowest and currently serves on the IT committee. Previously, Stacy served as Secretary of BFS, a group created to support the mission and goals of the YAI/National Institute for People with Disabilities Network.

A recipient of the Johns Hopkins-CTY Academic Excellence Award, Stacy holds a BA in Language and

Communication from the University of Michigan, an MA in Communication Management from the Annenberg School at the University of Southern California and an MBA in Business Management from Pepperdine University. Additionally,she completed certification in Dispute Resolution from the Pepperdine University School of Law. While in the program, Stacy mediated litigated disputes in the Santa Monica, California courts, boasting a 90% settlement rate.