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...
New Study Shows Where Nonprofit Culture Gets Stuck and What Helps
Nonprofit leaders know what it feels like to navigate uncertainty with limited capacity. That reality has been true for years. What stood out in the 2025 U.S. Nonprofit Culture Pulse Study is that leaders are naming that strain more clearly. Instead of focusing only...
If You Don’t Shape Your Culture, It Will Shape Itself
Every organization has a culture—whether it’s shaped on purpose or left to take shape on its own. That’s why building an intentional workplace culture matters so much. I didn’t always see it that way. Early in my career, I worked in IT consulting, where focusing on...
Why My Logo Looks Like a Weave
When I launched my consulting practice (19 years ago!) and began designing my logo, the idea that kept coming up for me was weaving. Threads are woven into strands, which get woven into rope or fabric. Like in basket weaving, rope making, or even fabric design,...