Don Carpenter

Don is a visionary and cause-driven leader with an engaging and optimistic personality. With more than 30 years of senior management experience dedicated to relationship-centered leadership, Don is a proven change agent with an entrepreneurial spirit, passionate inner drive and solid business instincts. He believes that programs, institutions, and companies don’t change lives. Rather, the relationships built within those structures do. Holding true to that belief, Don has dedicated his life to the business of relationship building through the creation of innovative student-centered youth development organizations that empower young people to thrive.