Laura Fredricks is a fundraising consultant, international inspirational and motivational speaker, and best-selling author. She is the owner of her own boutique consulting company, which provides training, coaching, and proven best practices to help nonprofit organizations and businesses effectively raise money. She is the author of The ASK: How to Ask Anyone for Any Amount for Any Purpose (Jossey-Bass, 2006) and Developing Major Gifts: Turning Small Donors into Big Contributors (Jones and Bartlett, 2001). Formerly, Fredricks was Vice President for Philanthropy at Pace University, spearheading their centennial $100 million capital campaign where she raised over $92million in six years, and was Associate Vice President for Temple University while they began their $300 million capital campaign. For the past sixteen years, Fredricks has been teaching nonprofit business management courses at University of Pennsylvania, Columbia University, New York University, Duke University, the Smithsonian Institution, and the Universities of Australia.

Her website is www.laura-fredricks.com.