I work with nonprofit Executive Directors on two things nobody hands you a playbook for: making the strategy actually move, and leaving without breaking what you built. Twenty years in the sector, including time as an ED. One piece a month, from the work.
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Hey Reader, One hour before event seasonFall walks, galas, and the year-end sprint are the most crowded stretch your calendar sees all year. So before your next event committee meeting, block one hour with your leadership team and run it against this agenda: The Fall Planning Hour . Three priorities, each with an owner and a first step, before the sand pours in. Before I GoIt's my birthday month. Year 40 is in the books, and it was a good one. Earlier this year, my husband and I made a commitment: our kids will see more of the world than our little corner of it. Experiences over things, whenever we can manage it. So we closed out the summer in Italy and Spain. Our first European soccer match (Vamos a Valencia!), gelato every single day of an Italian heat wave, and checking Capri and the Blue Grottos from my bucket list, which did not disappoint. I hope your adventures, whether local or far, brought you a sense of wonder this summer! Talk soon, P.S. The Legacy Leadership Transfer waitlist is open if the timing's right for you. |
Heather Hooper Consulting, LLC
I work with nonprofit Executive Directors on two things nobody hands you a playbook for: making the strategy actually move, and leaving without breaking what you built. Twenty years in the sector, including time as an ED. One piece a month, from the work.
Hello Reader, When I was ready to leave my last ED position, I looked for a roadmap. Not the organization's succession plan. That existed. It named how we would find the next leader, explained how the search would run, told the board what to do. Useful, as far as it went. What I was looking for was a roadmap on how to transfer my work. The documentation nobody had asked me to write. The years of institutional context that would walk out the door the day I did if I didn't build a structure for...
Hey Reader, We have a fireplace in our bedroom, and a few weeks ago something moved into the chimney. For four nights it scratched and nested, and I lay there in the dark building a whole creature out of the noise. A squirrel, at least. Maybe an opossum. Something big and furry and clearly plotting against me. By the third night I was running on no sleep and sure we had a real problem. So that Sunday we called a wildlife guy. He listened to our video of the racket, said he was ninety percent...