Cleve Callison

A strategically focused and resourceful leader with expertise in organizational leadership, communication, development, fundraising and marketing. A versatile communicator with strong interpersonal skills and the ability to develop mutually beneficial and supportive partnerships. Core strengths include:

• Nonprofit fundraising and marketing
  

• Team and leadership development
  

• Goal setting and planning
  

• Public speaking and writing
  

• Using web and multimedia
  

• Award-winning broadcasting
  

• Internal and external communications
  

• Developing dynamic partnerships
  

• 'Back to Business' participant, University of Cincinnati School of Business
  

• Six Sigma Yellow Belt certificate, UC Professional Development Institute

Executive Director, Ohio Interfaith Power and Light, Columbus & Cincinnati, OH (current position)

• Program of the Ohio Council of Churches
  

• Empowering a faith-based response to climate change, enabling congregations to save through energy efficiency and conservation
  

General Manager, WMUB Public Radio, Miami University, Oxford, OH,
April, 1997 - June, 2009.

• Grew local revenue from under $100,000 to over $400,000
  

• Managed station transformation from jazz to NPR talk and local news
  

• Co-created and produced award-winning radio series on Ohio's Bicentennial
  

• Created a news staff that won over 60 broadcast awards from the Ohio AP, Cincinnati and Ohio Society of Professional Journalists, and eTech Ohio
  

• Note: Miami University eliminated all WMUB staff positions as of the end of the 2008-09 academic year, June 30, 2009. WMUB is now a repeater station for WVXU-FM, Cincinnati Public Radio
  

General Manager, WFDD Public Radio, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, 1982-1997.

• Participated in CPB Management Seminars at UNC and Wharton School
  

• Wrote successful grant proposals for station
  

• Increased fundraising from $25,000 to over $270,000 annually
  

• Managed a budget of $800,000 (which increased from $200,000)
  

• Directed on-air campaigns that won CPB Listener Support Awards for mid-size market as well as runner-up recognition.
  

Program Director, WSVH Public Radio, Savannah, GA. Developed, implemented and monitored program format for new community public radio station (classical and news).

Program Director, WLRH Public Radio, Huntsville, AL. Supervised programming for state-licensed public station.

Miami University-Hamilton (regional campus), 2010
Institute for Learning in Retirement, Miami University, 2004-2009
Outstanding course evaluations across a variety of topics, using PowerPoint, traditional lecture, and wide-ranging, inclusive class discussion.
English Department, University of Alabama-Huntsville
English Department, University of Northern Iowa

"Cleve is a smart, committed and skilled manager of people. His deep knowledge of media, radio and team building is terrific." April 26, 2009

• Jeffrey Dvorkin, former Ombudsman , NPR (National Public Radio)
  

• worked with Cleve at Miami University - via LinkedIn
  

"Cleve offers a rare combination: he is a thoughtful but progressive manager; he thinks issues through carefully but can move quickly and does his best work when the situation was the most stressful and deadlines are tight; as a broadcaster he is exceptional in his oral skills but perhaps more masterful as a writer; and he cares deeply about his staff but acts when he must light a fire under someone. He has a variety of talents that would serve him well in many different endeavors." April 6, 2009

• Richard Little , Special Assistant to the Provost , Miami University
  

• managed Cleve at Miami University - via LinkedIn
  

"Mr. Callison has an enviable record as a systemwide leader, having served two terms as president of Ohio Public Radio; and as vice president and president of Public Radio in Mid-America (PRIMA), one of the nation's most important and active regional forums for policymaking and representation at the national level.
"Prior to his service at WMUB, Mr. Callison served for 15 years as general manager of WFDD, Winston-Salem (NC) public radio. His record there was one of continuous growth, well-managed, widely respected, and extremely successful for the public, the station, and the license-holder, Wake Forest University. . .
"He is widely admired for crisp, careful management; a friendly and engaging professionalism that invites creativity, collaboration, and cooperation; and resourceful relationship-building skills leading to wider, deeper support from the public for public radio.
"He is an exemplary public radio executive."

• Kevin Klose, President Emeritus, National Public Radio; Dean and Professor, the Philip Merrill School of Journalism, University of Maryland