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5 Keys to Successful Collaboration: School Reform

Answer to Stronger Schools? Community. Community partnership models are many: collaboration, coordination, coalition, and co-location to name a few. Yet so so many fail to fully meet their mission. Below we share one of our big success stories and our 5 keys to success. Keys that have now been applied across many collaboratives. The Problem: We hear about it too often: high-poverty, low-graduation rates, behavior problems, changing demographics, failing schools. Under this mountain of issues, Read more…

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Nonprofit Partnerships Collaborations

Pandemic Partnership Explorations Back on the Rise

Difficult, but oh so worth it. At Leadership Savvy, collaborations and strategic partnerships are one of our favorite topics. Because it often yields the biggest wins. Our consulting and coaching helps leaders find success in the complex partnership world for accelerating community-change. Truth is, the issues we are faced with today are so complex, major changes in status quo will require partnerships. This said, strategic partnerships have big potential, but are not always a sure Read more…

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Nonprofit partnerships and mergers through pandemic

Using the Pandemic to Deepen Nonprofit Partnerships and Mergers

As featured on Train Your Board blog. Check it out and subscribe! It’s difficult to remember the start of 2020, but it was a golden period. We were riding the coattails of 2019 – one of the strongest fundraising years on record. When Covid-19 hit, nonprofit leaders had to react quickly: moving programs online, furloughing staff, and canceling events. According to a CAF America study, 73% of organizations saw a decline in donations during the Read more…

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Collective Impact is A Sure Bet: The What & How

Housing and homelessness. Transitional age foster youth. Incarceration and recidivism rates. These are only a few of the massive issues we’re grappling with today. At Leadership Savvy we believe that big messy problems require bold visions for change. As a result, we’ve seen time and again the power of innovative and unconventional partnerships. This unexplored territory can have its own challenges. First, you have unwieldy issues to address. Then you have the people factor. Necessary, Read more…

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Change Management: 3 Tips for Success

Change is the spice of life! Then how does it go so wrong? When it comes to driving change in an organization, it’s usually for good reason. Unfortunately too many leaders neglect to take the time to do it right. In this vlog I share with you three factors that can increase your chance of success. They allow for people to feel informed and involved, so when things don’t go as planned, they give the Read more…

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Tips to Break-Through the Leadership Ceiling

Hello! From an early age are taught to work hard and we’ll reap the rewards. When we advance professionally we are left to wonder why we are being passed up for promotions. As a career coach I see a lot of self doubt from very competent and accomplished people. The problem with being so effective is we often hold ourselves back. We rationalize staying in place. We describe ourselves as worker bees versus leaders. Whether Read more…

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Crisis Spurred Innovation: Steps to Activating Success

Fellow business and organization leaders — it has been a wild ride, hasn’t it? I must admit the pandemic put my own business on pause and had be re-considering how I could best be of service. This pushed me to challenge my purpose, services, and approach. It led to innovation. I actually have more clarity and focus than before Covid-19 — and I’m starting to see real results. In this video, I walk through three Read more…

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Power of Yet

Is there something you yearn for but it feels futile at times? There’s definitely a way to gain a new perspective: the power of yet. It takes your NO and makes it a NOT YET. Giving you permission to take pause and outline a path forward. In this video I’ll share how the power of yet has help three clients get through the seemingly impossible. We’ll explore three examples: a founder story, a management team Read more…

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Now is the Time to Job Seek.

Think Covid is a bad time to job seek? Grateful you have a job or unemployment benefits? Well don’t get too comfy. Now is the time to brush up on your resume. Here’s why:  The job market is growing again. After two months of drastic job losses, May finally showed an uptick in hiring. It is by no means a return to normal, but it is a period where employers are desperate to find and Read more…

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3 Musings on Work, Love, & Life

Let’s grow together. Life is a journey of learning, mis-steps, growth, and celebration. For 20 years I have supported people of all types, shapes, and sizes to achieve a more fulfilling, meaningful life. To dream big and pave a path that is seemingly impossible. I’ve believe there’s a dreamer in all of us, and when we find focus and support, we can achieve greatness for ourselves, families, and community. I know you can too. Below Read more…

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