Dennis C. Miller
America's Nonprofit Leadership & Board Governance Expert
Speaker • Author • Coach
Dennis is a nationally recognized nonprofit board and executive leadership coach and consultant with more than 40 years of experience working with nonprofit board leadership and chief executives.
Dennis’ experience working with hundreds of nonprofit organizations has provided him with the knowledge and insights to understand the competencies required of today’s nonprofit leadership and board governance best practices.
In addition to being an expert in board governance, leadership development, philanthropy and succession planning, he is a sought-after motivational speaker and retreat facilitator.


Dennis C. Miller
Dennis is a passionate and recognized national expert on nonprofit leadership and board governance with over four decades of experience. He founded and chaired DCM Associates Inc., from 2007 to 2024, a highly successful and nationally recognized executive search firm for nonprofit CEOs and C-Suite leaders. As the former president and chief executive officer of Somerset Medical Center and Foundation in New Jersey from 1999 to 2004, his reputation as a respected healthcare executive resulted in numerous honors including becoming the Chair of the Board of Trustees for the Center for Health Affairs, Inc. in Princeton, and served in a leadership capacity on many other nonprofit boards.
Dennis earned his Fellowship in the American College of Healthcare Executives – ACHE – was recognized by the Somerset County Business Partnership as the Business Leader of the Year, awarded by the Boy Scouts as Citizen of the Year, inducted into the Hall of Fame by St. Joseph Regional High School where he chaired their first ever capital campaign and became Chairman of the Board, and many other honors and awards from business trade associations.
Dennis obtained his undergraduate degree from Rutgers University graduating Phi Beta Kappa and master’s degree in public health administration from Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health. Passionate about leadership and governance, Dennis was the Founder of the Center for Excellence in Leadership, Governance and Philanthropy at Fairleigh Dickinson University, the largest private university in New Jersey.
Dennis is the author of five books on nonprofit organization success: A Guide to Achieving New Heights: The Four Pillars of Successful Nonprofit Leadership; The Nonprofit Board Therapist: A Guide to Unlocking Your Organization’s True Potential; The Power of Strategic Alignment: A Guide to Energizing Leadership and Maximizing Potential in Today’s Nonprofit Organizations; A Guide to Recruiting Your Next CEO: The Executive Search Handbook for Nonprofit Boards; and The Importance of Nonprofit Board Leadership: A Guide to Creating a Highly Successful Nonprofit Board. Dennis is also a regular columnist for many of America’s leading nonprofit business publication and blogs.
In his compelling autobiography, Moppin’ Floors to CEO: From Hopelessness and Failure to Happiness and Success, Dennis mixes together the right ingredients for an engaging, illuminating and inspiring, gut-honest recount of his highly eventful life; lots of engaging stories; and some valuable life lessons.
This book is extraordinary! A fast paced account of an adult life that started in turmoil; through determination, guts, hard work, (yes, hard work), and probably moxie, Dennis takes us through triumph, success, and ultimately the realization of happiness. There are so many highlights and points to relate to it's hard to know which ones to single out. Appropriate for many audience types including those overcoming health and self-esteem challenges, students, those new to the workforce, business executives and C-suite personnel. Highly recommended.
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