Taking you and your organization to new heights

Never publicly shame anyone — this approach leads to resentment, damaged morale, and a workplace culture headed toward toxicity. That's not a culture any of us wants to build — especially not in mission-driven organizations where trust and psychological safety are foundational. Time for grace.

Height is visible and immediate. Unlike interests, values, or personality, a person's height registers the second you see them.

One of the most disorienting things about accumulating genuine expertise is that it can start to feel like a liability.

Writing this wasn't just an exercise in sharing wisdom — it was me working through my own reckoning out loud, because that's the only way I know how to do hard things.

Permission to grief as the ground shifts beneath us

As CEO, you become the default container for every emotional overflow in the organization.

The very thing that draws people to nonprofit work—deep passion for a cause—can also become the source of an organization's greatest challenges.

2026 doesn't have to be about perfection. It's about progress, growth, and showing up for yourself in ways that actually matter.

We've all been there. You announce a team retreat or all-hands meeting, and someone immediately responds: "Great! But PLEASE, no icebreakers."

Perhaps the most transformative leadership philosophy to emerge in recent decades is servant leadership, introduced by Robert Greenleaf in his groundbreaking 1970 essay The Servant as Leader.

As nonprofit leaders, we regularly pour time and resources into planning retreats for our organizations, yet rarely give ourselves even a fraction of that time to reflect on our leadership.

A lack of understanding about the basics of rewards can result in some unanticipated results causing your employees to not feel rewarded and even feel punished because of your reward programs.

The numbers tell a compelling story. According to McKinsey & Company, the nation's 1,000 largest corporations have committed $200 billion to racial equity since 2020, with the majority coming from financial institutions.

Thanks to Harvard Business Review for this insightful look at strategic planning and where we can fail at reaching our goals: https://hbr.org/2017/11/many-strategies-fail-because-theyre-not-actually-strategies One major reason for the lack of action is that “new strategies” are often not strategies at all. A real strategy involves a clear set of choices that define what the firm is going to do and what it’s not going to do. Many strategies fail to get implemented, despite th

Running a nonprofit is hard enough without tripping over preventable mistakes

Joining a nonprofit board should be a rewarding experience that allows you to leverage your skills for meaningful impact.

Realize that change causes stress. Therefore to minimize the stress, identify what you can control and what you cannot, and take steps to minimize what you can.