Meet our team

We’re a team that is excited to roll up our sleeves and work alongside our clients to make their fundraising initiatives inclusive, creative, enjoyable, and successful! Our unique breadth of expertise and talent provides the resources to help with every facet of fundraising planning and execution.

Todd Lindsley
Principal/Founder

Todd has focused his entire career on creating successful fundraising strategies, campaigns, and processes which position nonprofits to thrive and transform their communities. In his 39+ years as a fundraiser, fundraising strategist, and consultant, Todd has served over 250 organizations nationwide, whose combined capital campaign goals exceed $1 billion. Relationship-building is at the heart of his approach to inspiring, coaching, and rallying clients, committees, volunteers, and teams to embrace and enjoy the process of successfully setting, and often surpassing, their fundraising goals.

Todd lives in Lancaster, PA, with his wife Heather (physical therapist), where they have raised their children—Cooper (computer engineer), Greta (business development for an energy company), and Lou (a Junior in Biostatistics and Epidemiology at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill). They are active in the Lancaster community as professionals, neighbors, donors, and champions for the greater good.

Areas of Expertise:

  • Capital Campaigns

  • Major Gift and Planned Giving

  • Annual Giving/Membership Programs

  • Alumni Affairs

  • Staff Assessment

  • Coaching and Training

  • Development Officer Search Assistance

  • Founder and President, Lindsley Development Consulting, Lancaster PA—since 2000

    Vice President of Ross, Johnston & Kersting, Inc., Durham NC—1994 – 2000

    Assistant Dean for Development and External Affairs - UNC Law School University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill—1989 to 1994

    Director of Development for Glimmerglass Opera, Inc., Cooperstown NY—1987–1989

    Director of Alumni Relations, Hartwick College, Oneonta NY—1985–1987

    Development Office/Student Intern, College of William & Mary – 1982-1985

  • B.A., Government, The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg VA

  • The Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE)

    The North Carolina Planned Giving Council

    The National Society of Fund Raising Executives

    The Association of American Law Schools/American Bar Association- Section on Institutional Advancement

    Lancaster Chamber of Commerce & Industry

  • Mt. Gretna Theatre, Board of Directors

    Bright Side Opportunities Center, Founding Committee and Board of Directors

    First Presbyterian Church of Lancaster

    Janus School

    Jenkins School

    Lancaster Family YMCA, Board of Directors

    Little League Baseball

    Opera America

    Parish Resource Center

    Penn Manor Youth Baseball and Softball Association (boys travel coach)

    Penn Manor Recreation Basketball Travel League (coach)

    Penn Manor Middle School and 8th & 9th Grade Girls Basketball (coach)

    Upper Catskill Community Council on the Arts

Susan Broomell
Senior partner & consultant

Susan has more than 25 years of experience guiding nonprofits in the strategic visioning and tactical execution of their Planned Giving, Endowment, and Capital Campaigns. A trained CPA (inactive) and MBA degree holder, Susan’s eye for detail, planning, management, and financial acumen provides well-reasoned counsel that clients trust, while her passion for bringing nonprofits and their communities together to develop fresh strategies makes projects more special, memorable, and successful than imagined. She is frequently called upon as a speaker on fundraising topics for non-profit board presentations and professional organizations.

Susan and her husband Mark live in Kirkwood, PA. They are the parents of two adult sons.

Areas of Expertise:

  • Capital Campaigns                     

  • Major Gift Fundraising

  • Planned Giving             

  • Endowment Campaigns

  • Staff Assessment

  • Board Member Training

  • Donor Cultivation

  • Feasibility studies

  • Special Events

  • Senior Partner and Consultant, Lindsley Development Consulting, Lancaster PA—since 2007

    Principal, Broomell Consulting—since 2001

    Associate Treasurer, Franklin & Marshall College—1989-2000

    Senior Accountant, Ernst & Young—1986-1989

  • Chartered Advisor in Philanthropy® (CAP), Richard D. Irwin Graduate School of The American College—2010

    Certified Public Accountant, State of Pennsylvania (inactive)

    MBA, Lebanon Valley College

    B.S., Accounting, Albright College

  • Ms. Broomell is frequently called upon as a speaker on fundraising topics for non-profit board presentations and professional organizations. Recent speaking engagements include presentations for Leave a Legacy York County, the Susquehanna Valley Council of Gift Planners and LeadingAge.

  • Past President of the Solanco Education Foundation Board

    Executive Committee of the Woodward Hill Cemetery Board of Trustees

    Red Rose Blue Star Mothers

    Faith Presbyterian Church, Former Treasurer

James Alton
Consultant

Jamie has worked in the non-profit sector for 35 years—from large nationally known institutions, such as the National Geographic Society and the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, to smaller community organizations, such as the former Lancaster County Historical Society (now LancasterHistory). His diverse experience ranges from fundraising to marketing to project management, from exhibit development to museum administration. Until 2016, he served for nine years as Assistant Director / Development Officer at the North Museum of Nature and Science, raising $3.5 million dollars for the institution’s first capital campaign. Jamie now assists central Pennsylvania’s nonprofit organizations as a consultant.

Jamie specializes in crafting compelling messaging for capital campaigns, and grants he wrote have generated more than $13 million for his clients or employer. He loves getting down in the trenches with clients, becoming part of their team to ensure everything gets accomplished successfully.

Jamie and his wife, Kathy, live in Lancaster, PA. They have two adult children, Matt (married to Lizzie) and Amy (engaged to Dalton, dog mom to Harley), and one adorable grandson, Bruin.

Areas of Expertise:

  • Planning and Implementing Capital Campaigns

  • Case for Support Development and Writing

  • Grant Writing

  • Campaign Management

  • Organizational Assessment

  • Strategic Planning

  • Consultant, Lindsley Development Consulting, Lancaster PA—since 2016

    Principal, J. Alton Consulting, Lancaster, PA—since 2016

    Assistant Director / Development Officer, North Museum of Nature & Science, Lancaster, PA—2007-2016

    Vice President, Public Programs and Marketing, Lancaster County Historical Society, Lancaster, PA—2002-2007

    Exhibits Developer, Editor, Publications Manager, Denver Museum of Nature & Science, Denver, CO—1994-2001

    Researcher / Writer, Educational Media Division, National Geographic Society, Washington, DC—1988-1993

  • B.A. English and American Studies, Princeton University

    M.B.S. Museum and Field Studies, University of Colorado at Boulder

  • Licensed PA Consultant, Standards for Excellence®

    PANO

    PA Museums

  • Secretary, Board of Directors, Rotary Club of Lancaster

    Choir Member, St. Edward’s Episcopal Church

    Performer, Lancaster community theaters

Lisa Side
Communications Consultant

Passionate about finding the right words, images, and media to inspire people, Lisa has built a 30-year career around orchestrating meaningful communications between organizations and their audiences. She has managed the process of creating communication strategies, TV spots, PSAs, social and web content, campaign events, executive speeches, and integrated marketing plans and materials for organizations large and small as both a creative writer and project manager.

Lisa enjoys getting to know our nonprofit clients and their communities, finding the unique hook to connect them, and developing and managing campaign communications that reach their fundraising and brand awareness goals.

Lisa lives in Lancaster, PA, and frequently spends time in Sarasota, Florida, with her extended family. She is proud Mom to her daughter, Sam, a graduate student in Historical Archeology at UMASS Boston.

Areas of Expertise:

  • Communication Strategy Development

  • Capital Campaign Communications Management

  • Audience Messaging

  • Creative Production Management

  • Writing

  • Communications Consultant, LDC—since 2023

    Account Director, Fig Branding & Design Studio—2018-2023

    Marketing Communications Manager, Armstrong Flooring—2017-2018

    Integrated Marketing Communications Consultant, The Hershey Company—2007-2016

    Marketing & Communications Manager, Dutch Wonderland Family Amusement Park—2004-2006

    Marketing & Communications Manager, Newman Architects—1998-2002

  • B.A. English/Writing, Fairfield University

    Digital Marketing Professional Certificate, UPENN Wharton Online

  • Lancaster / Lebanon Habitat for Humanity, Capital Campaign Communications Committee Chair (Public Phase)

    Lancaster Public Library, Capital Campaign Communications Committee Member

    Gold Award Panel Judge, Girl Scouts in the Heart of PA

    Coach, Girls on the Run and Girls on Track of Lancaster

    Marketing Committee, EDC of Lancaster

    Member / Communications Chair, Junior League of Lancaster

    Newsletter Editor, Society for Marketing Professional Services, Southern New England Chapter

    Chair, ConnTour

    Press Secretary, Long Island Pine Barrens Society