Speaker Profile
DONNA K OLHEISER
Donna K Olheiser, AAP, is the vice president of Education Services and founder of Dynamic Mastership, LLC.; and holds the Accredited ACH Professional (AAP) designation (achieved in 2004). She is an enthusiastic and energetic Certified Master Trainer with over 14 years’ training experience. She has designed and facilitated over 100 training sessions each year with her expertise being the rules for companies and financial institutions when processing electronic (specifically ACH) payments, then scheduling the events to facilitate and deliver the material through a variety of venues (webinars, teleseminars, in-person workshops, including regional and national conferences). Her extensive knowledge, enthusiasm, and passion for transferring payment processing knowledge using the adult learning theory is remarkable and has helped many payment professionals perform daily operational tasks including exception processing while remaining compliant with the NACHA Operating Rules. She uses scenarios and examples to bring the learning home, easy to comprehend, and apply to real-life day-to-day ACH processing. Ms. Olheiser’s ability to engage the learner through the entire training event helps the adult learner apply what they’ve learned during and after each training session. Donna has over 24 years of experience in the financial services industry which includes 9 years’ experience as the education service director at a Regional Payments Association (RPA), where she managed and facilitated the entire education program for nearly 800 financial institution members. Prior to that, Ms. Olheiser spent 14 years in various departments with the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, including the internal educator for FedACH Central Operations.
Donna K Olheiser
February 27 2025
01 : 00 PM EST
90 Minutes
Stop Payments vs. Unauthorized Entries - Compliance with the Nacha Operating Rules
As an operations or front-line person, each day you struggle with the question – “When do I use a Stop Pay form and when do I need a Written Statement of Unauthorized Debit (WSUD)?” In the back room, processing these types of ACH transactions brings up the questions - “what is the Return Reason code, What is the timeframe to do a specific type of Return, and what documents do I need before processing this E..
Donna K Olheiser
March 18 2025
01 : 00 PM EST
90 Minutes
ACH Federal Government Reclamations, plus guidance on Misdirected Payments and DNE’s (Death Notification Entries)
Processing ACH Reclamations from the Federal Government can be challenging! Chapter 5 of the Green Book has been updated making it mandatory for Financial Institutions to respond to all reclamations must be submitted through thtd {border: 1px solid #cccccc;}br {mso-data-placement:same-cell;}DOOL-0012e Automated Reclamation Processing System (ARPS) located in Treasury’s Pay.gov web portal (except for r..
Donna K Olheiser
April 30 2025
01 : 00 PM EST
90 Minutes
Unauthorized Transactions – Reg E vs Nacha Operating Rules
Processing Unauthorized transactions can be very confusing. Can you use the ACH network to return or are you outside that timeline and Reg E sets in and what does that mean for your front-line and operations staff.Details on the error resolution process with Reg E for consumer notification to the financial institution, research time involved, and the timing of providing provisional credit; inclu..
Donna K Olheiser
May 31 2025
01 : 00 PM EST
90 Minutes
NEW Nacha Operating Rules Changes in 2024 PLUS insight into 2026 Changes
To remain in compliance with the Rules, participants in the ACH network need to ensure they are up to date on recent changes and newly approved amendments to the Rules. Whether it’s the minor Rules changes that are expected to have little-to-no impact on ACH participants and no significant processing or financial impact, but still important to ensure you are in compliance!The Risk Management topics will imp..
Donna K Olheiser
Recorded Webinar
90 Minutes
ABC’s of Completing the Annual ACH Rules Compliance Audit
The Nacha Operating Rules and Guidelines require that all participating depository financial institutions (ODFI & RDFI), Third Party Senders (TPS), and Third-Party Service Providers (TPSP) that provide ACH services to the RDFI or ODFI, conduct an annual ACH audit by December 31 of each year (Nacha Operating Rules, Article 1). There are changes each year in the Nacha Operating Rules that affect your annu..
Donna K Olheiser
Recorded Webinar
90 Minutes
New NACHA Operating Rules Changes for 2026
Each participant in the ACH Network is required to follow the NACHA, Operating Rules and be compliant, even when it pertains to Risk. Effective March 20, 2026 – Phase 1 for Risk Management (part of a larger package) to help reduce the incidence of successful fraud attempts and improve recovery of funds:Fraud Monitoring by Originators, Third-Party Service Providers/Third Party Senders and ODFIs, ..
Donna K Olheiser
Recorded Webinar
90 Minutes
New NACHA Operating Rules Changes in 2024 PLUS insight into 2026 Changes
Each participant in the ACH Network is required to follow the NACHA Operating Rules and be compliant. Minor topics changes included within these updated Rules:General Rule for WEB EntriesDefinitions of OriginatorOriginator Action on Notification of ChangeData Security RequirementsUse of Prenotification EntriesClarification of Terminology – Subsequent EntriesThese minor changes will become effective Ju..
ACH Debit Strategies in the Same Day ACH Environment - from the RDFI Perspective
This 90-minute session will focus on how when debits are added, and the impact this may have on ACH Processing – for the RDFI and the Receiver. Authorization language – the impact it has on Same Day Debits. On the Receiver side, If I authorize a payment today, or use the ACH card today, legacy ACH would debit my account tomorrow (at the earliest), as debits are next day. Things are different now – with Same..