2026— 

LeadLab Summit

Chaya Scott is the Chief Aspiration Officer and Principal of Chaya Scott Consulting, LLC, where she partners with mission-driven organizations to design empowering cultures, strengthen governance, and implement sustainable change. Guided by values of equity, resilience, and humanity, Chaya helps leaders and teams align their resources, systems, and strengths to achieve aspirational, fiscal, and operational goals.

With more than 22 years of executive leadership—including founding and growing two nonprofit organizations—and extensive consulting across arts and culture, education, health, housing, and social justice sectors, Chaya brings both breadth and depth of expertise. She applies best practices, evidence-based strategies, and data-informed approaches to support strategic planning, organizational development, capacity building, and leadership training.
Her equity-centered, resilience-focused methodology empowers leaders to make informed decisions and cultivate cultures that are deeply human.

Chaya recently joined the Chester County Community Foundation as Chief Program Officer & Philanthropy Planning Officer. In this role, she leads programs, initiatives, research, and community engagement efforts that advance the Foundation’s mission of addressing community needs, growing philanthropy, and strengthening the nonprofit sector.
Working in close partnership with the staff and board, Chaya helps guide the Foundation’s strategic vision—engaging donors, supporting nonprofits, and fostering collaboration across sectors to build a stronger, more resilient philanthropic ecosystem. Her leadership ensures that the Community Foundation continues to inspire generosity and create lasting impact in Chester County, Now & Forever.

Previously, Chaya served as Vice President of Consulting at the Nonprofit Finance Fund (NFF). Ms. Scott was responsible for advancing a $6.8MM, national, consulting practice providing financial and strategic management for social sector leaders. There, she led a team of twenty-five (25), serving as a thought-partner to nearly 200 social sector leaders and philanthropy, offering advice, insight, and recommendations to capitalize on organizational strengths andfuture aspirations.

In additional to her consulting work and executive eladership, Chaya has taught as an Adjunct Professor in the Master of Public Administration department at West Chester University, where she designed courses in Nonprofit Management, Grant Writing, and Fundraising. She has also served as an Adjunct Instructor at Temple University’s Strategic Management Department, guiding MBA students through strategic management and applied business planning for nonprofit and for-profit clients.

Chaya holds a Master’s Degree in Organizational Leadership from Immaculata University, has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Public Relations from Temple University, Certifications in Nonprofit Management and Fundraising, alongside numerous leadership credentials.

Lisa Jo Epstein, PhD, is a socially-engaged, civic practice artist, change facilitator, consultant, and Presence-Based coach working at the intersection of theatre and Theatre of the Oppressed, somatics, community-based engagement and social justice. For close to 35 years, she has designed participatory, arts-based, community-led practices that spark critical thinking, creativity, and collective healing. Cross-sector collaborations with an intersectional lens are Lisa Jo’s neighborhood. Through creativity, care and joy, she welcomes leaders and those who find themselves leading, to co-create spaces where trust can grow, inequities can be challenged, and people can reconnect with a sense of play in their purpose.

 

Lisa Jo’s approach is rooted in years of experience as a teacher, leader, and facilitator, working alongside community members, activists, students, artists of all ages, and professional project partners. She’s spent thousands of hours listening deeply to stories that hold unspoken truths, and guiding people to unlock their power to transform those truths into purposeful, courageous action. Having lived through the highs and lows of leading community change, she helps others turn hard-earned insights into real strategies for social justice and transformation.

Khine Zaw Arthur is an award-winning entrepreneur and a scholar, recognized for her work in the community for women empowerment, leadership and small business development. She is the current President and CEO of the Asian American Chamber of Commerce of Greater Philadelphia AACCGP.  Before joining the Chamber, Khine has served as a Senior Officer for Social Welfare, Women, Labor and Migrant Workers at Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in Jakarta, Indonesia. She also worked as a news reporter at NHK World International in Tokyo from 2007-2011, while attending the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Tokyo as MEXT scholar. She holds a Ph. D in Human Security. Khine began her entrepreneurial journey in the United States in 2016, founded two skincare companies. She founded the businesses with a mission to support single-mothers, survivors of domestic violence and sex trafficking, provided various resources including employment opportunities, counseling and business training. Khine loves to cook, enjoys doing yoga and travels often with her family.


Khine has received numerous local and international recognitions for her philanthropic work and leadership in business. Some of her awards include 2017 Entrepreneur of the Year by Lehigh Valley Happening List, 2018 Lehigh Valley Business -Businesswoman of the Year, 2019 Lehigh Valley Business 40 under Forty, 2019 YWCA Mission of the Year, 2022 Philly Power 100, 2022 Realist Connectors- Philly’s Tech & Biz leaders, 2024 Philadelphia Magazine’s 150 Most Influential People, 2025 PA City and State: Above & Beyond Women, 2025 PA Trailblazers in Economic & Workforce.