Nan Beeler has more than 40 years of experience in the child welfare field, focusing primarily on capacity building and strategic system change in organizations serving abused and neglected children and their families.

 

Early in her career, Nan worked as a caseworker and direct service provider in both the child protection and children’s mental health systems. In 1986 she became a Core trainer for the Ohio Child Welfare Training Program (OCWTP), Ohio’s newly formed statewide training system to build the capacity of Ohio’s  88 county child protective services agencies. She subsequently joined the Institute for Human Services (IHS), the State Coordinator for the OCWTP, as a training manager. She worked in this capacity for 35 years serving many functions that included researching and evaluating the empirical base for best practice; developing child welfare competencies; assessing training needs; developing training curricula; training and coaching trainers; leading work teams; designing transfer of learning strategies; and coaching other staff members and partners in training system operations.

 

Nan is a skilled facilitator and organizational consultant for both governmental and nongovernmental child and family-serving organizations. She has worked extensively throughout the United States, Canada, and in Eastern Europe to help develop and implement strategic plans, both for training system development and for large-scale organizational change. Nan specializes in building collaborative and interactive teams to accomplish specific goals, including leading organizations through joint assessments of their own operations and management functions and identifying and implementing strategies specific to each organization and their unique circumstances. Nan creates environments that promote creativity and synergy in work groups that not only improves performance and outcomes, but that also minimizes the effects of conflicts and competing interests.

 

In her free time, Nan enjoys home remodeling projects, travel, gardening, and spending time with her children and grandchildren.

 

 
Education

Master’s of Social Work from the Ohio State University
​Bachelor’s of Social Work from Michigan State University