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Linda Dennison, ACC, CPA, MS Ed

Interim Chief Financial and Operating Officer
Walnut Hill School for the Arts

Linda Dennison is currently the Interim Chief Financial Officer at Walnut Hill School for the Arts. She has previously served as the Chief Financial Officer for Glenelg Country School in Ellicott City, MD and as the Director of Finance and Comptroller for Phillips Academy in Andover, MA. Prior to that she served as the Deputy Head of School and Chief Financial Officer for Indian Creek School where she played a critical role in negotiating the sale of one campus, while creating and implementing a flexible tuition model that stabilized enrollment and increased net tuition revenue. She also served Baltimore Lab School as the Director of Finance and Operations where she created stand-alone financial and operational processes that helped the school spin off as an independent entity, as it had been a division of the Lab School of Washington since its founding in 2000. Linda also worked as the Director, Consulting Services for the National Business Officer’s Association where her primary responsibilities included leading consulting assignments specifically focused on leadership and governance, school sustainability, and operational effectiveness; developing and writing best practice standards for school business operations and presenting on various topics at regional and national conferences for independent school professionals.

Throughout her career, Linda has served on several nonprofit boards in various leadership positions within those Boards. She is currently serving as a member of the Board of Directors for the National Business Officers Association (NBOA). Her previous appointments include Tabor Academy, Summit Montessori School and the Association of College Counselors of Independent Schools where she has served as Chair of the Board of Trustees for Summit Montessori School and as Committee Chair for Tabor Academy.

Linda is a graduate of Tabor Academy, has a B.S. in Accounting from the University of Southern Maine, a M.S. in Education from Johns Hopkins University, a Graduate Certificate in Business Leadership for Independent Schools and a Graduate Certificate in Educational Leadership for Independent Schools both from Johns Hopkins University, and is a CPA. She has completed several courses with the Mindfulness Coaching School and IDEO University for Design Thinking. Linda is a 2019 recipient of NBOA’s Will J. Hancock Unsung Hero Award.

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