Alden has served in the public, private profit-making, and private nonprofit sectors.

At Brakeley Briscoe he has counseled more than 40 non profit clients, participating in or leading more than 35 capital campaign- or development-planning studies, and providing executive search services to a diverse set of clients. In addition he has participated in numerous other projects including software audits, strategic planning, and board training. Recent or current clients include Blessed Sacrament Parish (Seattle, WA) Barton Health Foundation (South Lake Tahoe, CA); Marshfield Public Library (Marshfield, WI); Tallahassee Community College Foundation; East Bay Agency for Children (Oakland, CA); Bermuda High School for Girls (Pembroke, Bermuda); Friends of the San Francisco Public Library (San Francisco, CA); Gillispie School (La Jolla, CA); Grace Cathedral (San Francisco); St. Agnes Hospital Foundation (Baltimore); San Diego Foundation; The Marine Mammal Center (San Francisco, CA); Escola Americana do Rio de Janeiro (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), Napa Valley Museum (Napa, CA); North East Community Center (Millerton, NY), San Jose Taiko (San Jose, CA), Rising Sun Energy Center (Oakland, CA); and World Wildlife Fund-Mexico.

He has taught in inner-city schools in Baltimore and New Haven, in an independent school in South Carolina, and at the undergraduate and graduate level at San Jose State University, the University of San Francisco, and on three campuses of Golden Gate University. He has a Master of Arts in Teaching from Johns Hopkins University and a bachelor’s degree from Harvard.

Alden has consulted on employment programs for unemployed and underemployed youth and adults in Kentucky, Cleveland, and Washington, D.C. He was co-author of a national study, funded by U.S. Department of Labor and the Ford Foundation, on the organization of state and local governments for employment and training programs.

In Flint, Michigan, as manpower planning coordinator, Alden developed a multiagency plan for integrated local delivery of employment training programs by local agencies including the Urban League, Community Action Agency, Opportunities Industrialization Center, Michigan Employment Security Commission, and the local community college. He later managed a $15 million manpower development system for the unemployed providing coordinated delivery of training and employment services through service delivery contracts to 12 agencies in 3 counties.

In his volunteer activities he was Chief Referee for American Youth Soccer Organization’s Region 418 for five years, Board Chair of Fred Finch Youth Center, and a member of the George School Resources Committee. He recently served as Treasurer of the Golden Gate Chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals.

In the profit-making sector he has worked for Information Science, Aon Consulting, and Oracle, as client services manager and software product manager. He has consulted on the use of systems and technology for clients in the public, private, and private nonprofit sector.