Regina Cline
Expert in Leadership, Volunteer Management & Organizational Culture
Dr. Ravin Regina Cline brings a people-centered, research-informed approach to The Nonprofit Group, helping organizations strengthen leadership, cultivate healthy culture, and build sustainable volunteer and staff engagement. Her work focuses on how nonprofits lead, communicate, and adapt—especially in moments of complexity, change, and burnout.
Regina holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology, a master’s degree in counseling psychology, and a PhD in public affairs with a focus on public and nonprofit management. Her research and professional experience center on nonprofit leadership, equity, immigration policy, and organizational effectiveness. As both a nonprofit founder and former Executive Director, she brings lived leadership experience alongside academic expertise.
Her consulting and training work spans volunteer management, preventing and addressing burnout, DEI and inclusive leadership, organizational culture, logic modeling, strategic pivoting in VUCA environments, and career path development infused with wellness practices. Regina regularly integrates motivational interviewing and psychological frameworks into her work, helping leaders and teams build trust, rapport, and clarity in their decision-making.
Regina has served as an invited speaker for the Gatson Group’s Certified Diversity Professional (CDP) program and for RTX-funded programming at El Pueblo in Mississippi. Her consulting experience includes work with Community Credit Union, the Andy Abrams Foundation, Invest in Open Infrastructure, and nonprofit organizations across the country.
At The Nonprofit Group, Regina collaborates closely with fundraising, systems, and strategy experts to ensure leadership development and organizational culture are fully aligned with an organization’s mission, people, and long-term sustainability—bridging research and real-world practice in meaningful, actionable ways.
