Leadership
I’ve been reflecting a lot on leadership recently. As a former executive director and now facilitating peer cohorts of executive directors, I’ve been thinking about what’s changed in leadership approaches [...]
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Apr 2024
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Feb 2023
Peer learning
As a former executive director, I have always seen the value of peer support and understand how hard it can be to make time for in the day to day [...]
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Nov 2022
Learning as we go
Through this blog I periodically share learning from projects I have recently been involved with. These can be reminders of things we know but in the day to day press [...]
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Dec 2020
Rebuilding civil society
Recently I had the opportunity to co-create, host and facilitate the annual workshop of Accountable Now. We used many of the approaches that we have developed through the Testing Change [...]
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Dec 2019
Most popular blog posts of the decade
It is hard to believe we are already at the end of the decade (and that I’ve been blogging for a decade!) but here we are :) For my end [...]
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Nov 2019
Themes and Tips from a Peer Convening
Upswell is a convening organized by the national organization Independent Sector to bring together those working towards change in the social sector in the US. The following are a few [...]
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Feb 2019
The long term nature of change
I’ve been leading an initiative that’s now going into its sixth year and have thus been thinking about some of our learning around long term change. Long term change for [...]
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Dec 2018
2018 Year End Wrap-up
Some of my favorite pieces this year From my blog: Strategic International Outreach, October 2018 Global Trends for Social Sector Organizations, February 2018 From elsewhere around the internet: Executive Director [...]
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May 2018
Multi-Generational Dialogue: Getting Practical
This post has been co-authored by Bonnie Koenig and Alyssa Smaldino Last year we wrote about the importance of multi-generational dialogue. We noted a number of considerations to help make [...]
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Jan 2018
Creating and nurturing global networks
By Roopa Dhatt, Bonnie Koenig and Kelly Thompson A couple of years ago Bonnie wrote a series of posts on how our concept of networking has changed in a more [...]