The Most Important Part of a Retreat Isn’t the Retreat
I get asked to facilitate retreats pretty often. And a lot of the time, my first response isn’t “yes” or “no.” It’s a question. What do you want to be different when everyone gets back to the office? That question usually changes...
When Respect Becomes a Wall: How One Nonprofit Team Rebuilt Trust
When Respect Becomes a Wall: How One Nonprofit Team Rebuilt Trust “We were so focused on being respectful of each other’s roles that we accidentally built walls.” A team member said that to me a few months into a 6-month engagement with her...
Treat Culture The Way You Treat Fundraising
As a nonprofit leader, you have an intuitive understanding of this core truth: You don’t stop paying attention to your fundraising strategy once you’ve built it. You keep cultivating donor relationships, track what’s working, and adjust when something shifts. ...
Is Your Decision-Making Actually Working?
Here’s a question I find myself coming back to again and again, whether I’m sitting with a leadership team for the first time or knee-deep in a culture assessment: when your team makes decisions, what’s actually driving them? I’ve worked with...
Why This Nonprofit Culture Consultant Spent Years Avoiding the Word ‘Culture’
A father once threw a chair across my office. He was furious! All he wanted was to send his daughter to college, an opportunity that he never had when he was her age. Without more financial aid, her college education seemed to be slipping out of his grasp. Twenty...