Amy Chapman

Amy Chapman is a strategic planning and organizational development expert who currently serves as MDA’s Senior Advisor and specializes in operations management, personnel leadership and communications guidance.  She has worked with non-profits, foundations, political organizations and candidates throughout her career.  Amy is a former CEO of Information Staffing Services, Inc. (ISSI), a not-for-profit company she founded that provided data, targeting and political services to national and state-based 527’s, C4s and C3s with 40 staff in 20 states.  Her long career includes numerous national and state-based positions.  Besides founding and running ISSI, Amy has served as senior advisor to the Obama for President re-election effort in Michigan in 2012 and was the national campaign’s Michigan director in 2008, supervising more than 350 staff in 63 offices. She has also worked in Oregon, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Georgia, California and Texas on behalf of candidates and issue-based groups.  Amy’s skills include communications planning and development, crisis management, program management, staff management, skills training, coalition building, budget management, strategic planning, meeting facilitation and organization building.