John Rinehart

Current

Owner at Rinehart Consulting (Self-employed)

Past

Executive Director at Leadership Cumberland
facilitator / board member at Pennsylvania Rural Leadership Program
Owner at Rineharts' Orchards

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Education

Dickinson College
Northern York County School District

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Connections

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Industry

Professional Training & Coaching

John Rinehart’s Summary

It's been and "interesting" journey to get me to where I am today.
After deciding to take one semester off from college before finishing my degree - it ended up being 12 years - I spent most of the 80's and 90's co-managing our family orchards and marketing operation with my father. (My degree is in Post-Industrial European History from a fairly traditional liberal art college. He had retired as an industrial engineer from Bethlehem Steel. It was an interesting combination.) Because of my involvement in agriculture I was nominated for, and accepted to the Pennsylvania Rural Leadership Program (RULE), a two year program funded by the State of Pennsylvania and run through Penn State University. After graduating I continued my involvement with RULE, first as a volunteer facilitator and then as a Board member.
In 2000, I came to the realization that I no longer wanted to be a full-time “farmer”. In the fall of that year I was hired as the Executive Director of Leadership Cumberland, a community based leadership development program based in Carlisle, Pa. Leadership Cumberland’s reputation for preparing business leaders for nonprofit volunteerism gave me great exposure to both of those worlds.
I’d like to say that 15 years of active involvement with leadership development programs has prepared me for the work I do now (I once calculated that I’ve observed close to 1000 hours of leadership presentations), and it is a major part, but just as important were the years working directly with customers who ranged from seniors looking for the perfect peach to major buyers looking for the perfect margin, and employees ranging from teenagers working their first summer job to seasonal workers looking for a better life for themselves and their families.

John Rinehart’s Specialties:

Team Building, Meeting Facilitation, Workshops on Leadership, Change, and Communications. I have worked with a number of nonprofit organizations, associations, and government agencies.

John Rinehart’s Experience

Owner
Rinehart Consulting (Self-employed)

(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Professional Training & Coaching industry)

July 2007 — Present (2 years 6 months)
Executive Director

Leadership Cumberland

(Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

September 2000 — July 2007 (6 years 11 months)

Program Administration. Working with the Board of Directors on Curriculum Development, Marketing, Fundraising, Alumni Relations, and Class Recruitment.
facilitator / board member

Pennsylvania Rural Leadership Program

(Professional Training & Coaching industry)

1995 — 2007 (12 years )

Small Group Facilitator Classes VI, VII, and VIII. Responsibilities included guidance for group public issues projects and presentations and facilitation of personal learning contract process.
RULE Advisory Board Member, 2001-2004 , Treasurer 2002-2004, Vice President 2004-2006
Presentations on “Power Talking” and the development and implementation of the “Outward Bound Lite” team building exercise.
Review Committee for the Code of Conduct and Ethics.
Three Pennsylvania House of Representative Citations for recognition of work with the RULE program
Owner

Rineharts' Orchards

(Food Production industry)

June 1985 — March 2006 (20 years 10 months)

Responsibilities include all aspects of operating a 190 acre orchard and retail farm store, including: production, marketing, advertising, personnel, sales, and record keeping.
Past Vice-President of the Pennsylvania Retail Farm Market Association.