The Hidden Ingredient of a High-Functioning Board
What is the well-kept secret of a high-functioning board? Joan shares the hidden ingredient and why every board needs it.
Crush Your Annual Review: 10 Steps For Executive Directors
Executive directors complain that they do not receive a formal annual performance review. Here are 10 potential opportunities for achieving a stellar performance review!
Rockstar Recruitment: How To Hire The Best People
Dream candidates could be right in front of you and you could completely overlook them if your recruitment process upholds the status quo. Indeed, using the same standard recruiting criteria as everyone else could be an invisible blocker to attracting and hiring your dream team. These two strategies are how you can reinvent your recruiting process with smashing success.
My 5 Biggest Lessons For Successful Nonprofit Leadership
These are the 5 biggest lessons I had to learn when I first became a nonprofit executive director. And understanding how to implement them changed everything.
Fire Your Meetings, Refuel Your Leadership
Back-to-back meetings are a drain. Yet, meeting overload is a common source of stress for nonprofit leaders. I call for a rethink on your meeting schedule. Here is one tool that can powerfully change your calendar and create meaningful space for you to reclaim power to refuel your mojo.
12 Nonprofit Leaders Who Are Changing The World
From humble beginnings to the helm of leading change, these 12 nonprofit leaders are bringing equity, inclusion, and justice to the world.
How Nonprofit Leaders Can Delegate Successfully
There is a thin line between doing and leading. Here are 10 causes of ineffective delegation as a nonprofit leader. What are they? And what is the solution?
No More Boring Board Meetings!
Learn my simple equation that can turn your board from low performing to informed, enriched, engaged, and ignited.
Joan’s 3 Biggest Takeaways of 2023
In reviewing all of the blog posts I wrote in 2023, there were three topics in particular that stood out for me. Here they are…
6 Ways to Create a Culture of Givers At Your Organization (a Tribute to Heidi Dressler)
So many members of the Nonprofit Leadership Lab are pure, unadulterated Givers. But Heidi was the “Queen Giver”.
Love At First Pitch: Dating Advice For the Fervent Fundraiser
Here are 5 important lessons that apply to both fundraising and dating. A team member actually tried them out! Did she get a second date?
Chief Diversity Officers Are Set Up To Fail
I run a small and thriving business that serves nonprofit leaders. But even if we grew 10x I wouldn’t hire a Chief Diversity Officer.