When I started my consulting business 6 years ago, I felt the immense responsibility of being a strategy consultant. I started small, delivering trainings and 1:1 coaching. From there, I built up to facilitating retreats and finally took the leap to lead comprehensive strategy projects. For years I had led Read more
We have all heard strategic plans can catapult an organization towards success, yet so many fall short. Here are top excuses (ah hem), top reasons that refrain people from strategic planning and expert tips on how to do strategic planning right. 1. “We do just fine without a strategic plan.” Read more
The Chief Executive Leadership Conference November 3-4, 2022 Denver, CO & Online What it’s about Chief Executive’s Leadership Conference is the premier senior leadership conference in the United States – offering peer-tested tactics and strategies that will help you and your organization accelerate growth and profitability – no matter the Read more
About to embark on strategic planning? Here’s our webinar with Bloomerang on community engagement in strategic planning. Gain tips on how to build more inclusive planning processes. We also share stories of what’s worked and what doesn’t. Walk-away with specific tools you can use as you lead stakeholders through community-driven Read more
Public education has been hit hard in recent years. I’m here to share with you a bright spot and how we achieved it, as you absolutely can too. We started with abysmal graduation rates, unhappy neighbors, multi-cultural mis understandings, and shrinking budgets. We also started with a mindset of we Read more
Consultants have played an important role for organizations through this pandemic. Helping organization leaders make emergency shifts during lockdown and supporting ongoing needs as the pandemic continued. A year later, there are some valuable lessons learned that will help shape the future. Remote Work is Here to Stay In a Read more
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 Read more
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 Read more
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 Read more
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 Read more