Facilitator Bios

The Center for Community Stewardship works with a variety of trained, skilled, community facilitators.

Lisa Dugdale is the Executive Director of the Center for Community Stewardship (C4CS). Lisa has provided leadership coaching, facilitation training, and organizational and community needs assessments for the past fifteen years in Michigan and Wisconsin. She founded and ran a nonprofit in Michigan for many years and has helped start many other organizations and initiatives, which has inspired her to make it as easy as possible to help social entrepreneurs succeed.

She has Masters Degrees in Public Policy and Social Work (focused on nonprofit management) from the University of Michigan, and completed life coach training with Martha Beck, Inc. in 2012. She has a 20-year practice of meditation and mindfulness that she applies to her work at C4CS.

Bert Stitt has over 40 years of experience with community visioning processes, facilitation, and community engagement. He spent ten years as the Downtown Development Coordinator for the state of Wisconsin, facilitating well over 200 community visioning processes that supported community residents in defining and creating their future. He then opened his own consulting business offering these services to downtowns, community groups, businesses, and nonprofits.

The Center for Community Stewardship was formed out of Bert Stitt’s experience of receiving requests to facilitate much needed community-visioning and facilitation processes. Bert currently serves as the C4CS Board President.

Haywood Simmons, affectionately known by many as “Coach Wood”, has been recognized for his work in community health and wellness both locally and throughout the nation. Simmons is a native of Macon, Georgia and graduated from the University of Wisconsin – Madison where he received a bachelor’s degree in Political Science. Coach Wood is a member of the 1994 Rose Bowl Champion Wisconsin Badgers Football Team. Haywood Simmons is the founder and President of pHitness Plus, offering functional fitness and mindfulness classes and coaching.

Simmons has assisted the Madison area in having sensitive conversations countless times. These include Zion City and Sustain Dane Community Visioning, and facilitating a community conversation in Badger Rock following an Officer-involved shooting. As a founding member of the Step Up: Equity Matters Team, Simmons participated in planning and facilitating conversations around diversity and inclusion in the workplace. Simmons is the host for WORT’s Tuesday 8 o’clock Buzz, a one-hour, upbeat morning show that brings the community a mix of music, culture, information, news and interviews. He currently serves on the Center for Community Stewardship Board of Directors.