Advisory Relations. Founder liaison. Strategic Operations.

Diane Steinman Loney utilizes her signature strengths and serves as a Senior Executive overseeing  Advisory & Strategic Relations.  Diane brings to Chandini & Co over 30 years of experience in business operations and execution. Having demonstrated her own ability to create change as a member of Chandini's executive leadership team in the past, Diane chose to direct her focus and influence to seek solutions for system-wide challenges by creating and adopting new ways of doing business.  

Diane leads as Liaison to the Office of the Founder at Chandini & Co. Her areas of expertise in leadership range from strategic acquisitions and merger operations, revenue diversification and capital raises, growth and scale management.  Diane advises clients with an eye for increased efficiency, structural and staffing re-organizations and business pivot strategies.  She advises across all areas of business, from ideas in inception, start-up mentorship and hands on business planning and growth.  She led financial modeling in early stage ventures to milestone achievements in growth with proven excellence due to unconventional methodologies.

As Vice President of Strategic Partnerships and Programs at Wipe Out Kids' Cancer, Diane managed all mission activities from community and hospital based support programs to numerous large programmatic events.  Within two years she led the organization's historical achievement of year on year growth of 100% in both cash and in-kind revenue. Diane's passion for mission service is due to her firsthand understanding of the challenges patients and families endure through their cancer and health journey. Since that time, she has remained determined to lend her talents to areas of great humanitarian need by cultivating relationships with sponsors, donors, and expansion of corporate partners.  

In addition to seven years at Wipe Out Kids' Cancer, Diane led development at Hope Cottage Pregnancy and Adoption Center where she brought forth new and innovative fundraising strategies.   Diane’s roots in the medical community began in Fort Worth, as an Audiologist at Cook Children’s Hospital. Her work there focused on the pediatric and neonatal population. Continuing to serve others, from examining, assessing, diagnosing and administering treatment for hearing loss. 

For more than a decade, Diane was involved in faith based mission work where she provided strategic direction and growth through outreach initiatives. As a community convener and activist, she led family-friendly outreach events for the public and education initiatives to teach and train individuals to identify and expand their own circle of influence to create mission impact globally.  

Above all, Diane's greatest joy comes from quality time with her family and observing her children experience their own educational transitions and growth into leadership roles of their own.