Renée Rizzo
Renee recently completed 18 years as CEO of Hope Clinic for Women, a pregnancy center founded in 1983. She took Hope Clinic from a $500,000 annual budget to $1.5 million, grew client numbers 400% while increasing breadth and depth of care. Prior to that she was the Business Administrator and Equipping Ministries Director at a church in Connecticut right outside NYC. In her volunteer time, she was a small group leader, cheerleading coach, and young adult mentor in the community. She currently is consulting/coaching executive leadership, small businesses and nonprofits, and speaking/writing throughout the region on topics like unplanned pregnancy, effects of abortion, creating healthy relationships, and the impact of co-dependency, lack of worthiness, and loss of hope.
Renee is uniquely gifted at bringing different groups of people together to find common ground/purpose; at discussing divisive topics with grace and inspiring others to be their best, most authentic self. She creates sacred space for people to show up with their humanity. She has a BS Finance/Economics; is a certified Circle Group Facilitator and Barre & Fitness Instructor. She was named to Nashville’s Business Journal of Women of Influence and a finalist for CEO of the Year Award from Center for Nonprofit Management.
