Introducing our UK team

Redina Kolaneci, Senior Consultant - BA, MTh, MInstF(Cert)

Redina is the Senior Fundraising and Stewardship Consultant for McConkey • Johnston international based in Colchester, UK.

Since 1998 Redina has undertaken various research and consulting projects focusing on the relationship between churches and Christian charities, giving patterns of under 35s and the effects of socio-demographic factors on Christian giving. She has also trained hundreds of church leaders and fundraisers in Christian organisations in the UK, Europe, Australia and the USA on a wide range of fundraising and stewardship topics.

During the last five years Redina has served as a consultant or trainer to: London Institute for Contemporary Christianity (LICC), Initiatives of Change UK, Renewal Arts Network, Evangelical Alliance UK, CMS Australia, Derek Prince Ministries UK, European Christian Mission, Food for the Hungry UK and other charities.

She has a special interest in communications, research and training that enable charities to build long term partnerships with their supporters and develop funding strategies that combine best practice, leading edge professional knowledge and biblical principles. Redina lives in Colchester, Essex.

You can contact Redina by email.

Larry F. Johnston, President - BA, MSc, MA, PhD

A former VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America) volunteer, Larry has spent his entire career working on behalf of charities. During these last 25 years Larry has consulted internationally with clients in Canada, Europe and Latin America.

Beginning in 1978 he served as Campaign Coordinator and Consultant to the Billion Dollar Life Campaign of Campus Crusade for Christ, one of the largest private fund-raising efforts in history. During this time, he completed a Master of Science in Organisational Development at the Graduate School of Business and Management, Pepperdine University. He also holds an M.A. degree in Organisational Development and a Ph.D. in Human and Organisational Systems from the Fielding Graduate Institute. Larry's doctoral research resulted in the creation of new concepts for determining and maximizing donor value.

A well-known fundraising consultant and lecturer, Larry has taught at the Graduate Programme of Fundraising Management of the University of San Diego, and lectures extensively at conferences in the US, UK and Europe. He has a special interest in strategic management and leading and managing organisational change. Larry and his wife Rebecca live in Woodland Park, Colorado, USA.

Larry visits the UK regularly to offer his expert advice to UK clients, to mentor CEO's and senior managers of UK Christian charities and to conduct cutting edge fundraising and management training.

You can contact Larry by email.

Prof. Fejzi Kolaneci, Associate - BA, MA, PhD

Fejzi brings to the team a wealth of knowledge and expertise on market research especially on statistical analysis and sophisticated mathematical models for evaluating donor attitudes and performance. He is the Chair of the Mathematics Department at the University of New York, Tirana, Albania where he lectures and supervises a number of PhD students.

He has advanced knowledge and research interests in the fields of: Functional Analysis, Probability Theory, Deterministic and Stochastic Partial Differential Equations and their applications in Social Sciences, Medicine and Economy. Over the last 15 years he has been involved at a senior level in various research projects in the above mentioned areas at the JINR (Dubna, Russia), ICPT (Trieste, Italy), Scuola Normale Superiora di Pisa (Pisa, Italy), Institute Mathematique de Rennes (Rennes, France), and Mathematical Institute (Oxford, England). Prof. Kolaneci is a member of the London Mathematical Society and Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM).

Jon Wright, Associate - BA

Jon is an English language teacher with a special interest in helping organisations and individuals to communicate their message clearly, passionately and in every day English.

Within the UK team Jon is responsible for researching information and putting together our monthly e-briefing. Also he is involved in conducting statistical analysis for our strategic reviews and testing cause concepts for fundraising and promotional packages for our clients wanting to engage with under 35s generation.

To find out about the McConkey • Johnston international consulting team in the USA please visit: www.mcconkey-johnston.com