December Visionary Speaker: Crystal Thompkins
Be Our Guest
Guest passes are available to invited guests. One guest pass per person per year, please. This event will be recorded.
Join us on December 10, 2024 for a Visionary Speaker Session with special guest Crystal Thompkins, Director of Daylight Advisors.
Impact Table Visionary Speaker Sessions are private member and invite-only gatherings that bring respected women leaders in impact to share about their personal leadership and impact journey and important lessons learned along the way.
Our guests share an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at their own leadership and impact journey and share tips and tools they’ve learned, giving members the real talk, connection and truth we all crave and inspiration you can take with you on your own path.
Following the speaker’s share is an open Q&A with the speaker and time for members to break out into small groups.
About Impact Table Visionary Speaker Sessions
Too many women in social impact are under-resourced and under-supported, navigating their leadership and impact journey alone, or in a silo. We know, doing the world’s most important work isn’t a solo gig. One way we can stop patching together a leadership journey built on trial and error and instinct alone, is to listen and learn from others share the truth behind how they’ve navigated own leadership and impact journey, and share about our own experiences. Through Impact Table Visionary Speaker Sessions, we remove the veil and the misconceptions of what it takes to lead an impact journey that truly transforms lives and we inspire and equip Impact Table members to elevate their own leadership.
About Crystal
A Chartered Advisor in Philanthropy® and Certified Specialist in Planned Giving with over 20 years of experience in planned giving program management, Crystal brings a depth of expertise in nonprofit and family legacy planning.
Crystal most recently served as Head of Philanthropic Solutions for BNY Mellon Wealth Management leading the national strategy and thought leadership for the firm’s philanthropic businesses. Crystal was the direct manager of the planned giving business responsible for the administration and organizational support of over 100 national nonprofit planned giving programs, leveraging her extensive experience in charitable tax preparation, operations, and fiduciary services.
Crystal is also the Principal and Founder of TrueCrystal Consulting, a philanthropic consulting firm committed to helping Black Indigenous People of Color (BIPOC)-led, BIPOC-serving organizations and allied funders create a legacy through endowment building utilizing gift planning, equity-focused governance practices, and inclusive succession planning.
Crystal is a frequent speaker at regional and national conferences across nonprofit sectors and affiliated professional organizations and also facilitates nonprofit and private foundation board meetings guiding DEI and impact-focused, trust-based governance and giving. She has published articles in several publications including Worth Magazine, ThinkAdvisor, and Planned Giving Today. She also serves on the advisory council of Women of Color in Fundraising and Philanthropy (WŌC); the editorial board of Planned Giving Today; and the board of the Winston-Salem State University Foundation, her alma mater.
Crystal and her husband, David, are permanent, life-long residents of North Carolina and are proud rescue fur baby parents and servants to DJ (dog) and Sinclair (cat).