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Data That Works for the People Doing the Work (Impact Measurement Cohort – May 2026)

Data That Works for the People Doing the Work (Impact Measurement Cohort – May 2026)

Every agency in the room had a version of the same challenge. That, it turns out, was exactly the point. The Agency Capacity Builder (https://www.goodworksresults.com) Impact Measurement Cohort held its first of six sessions, bringing together ten Milton Township Community Mental Health Board-funded agencies focused on making data work for us. The session opened with an honest look at where things stand. Agencies completed a self-assessment built from patterns identified across discovery...

Leading Across Generations

Managers keep asking some version of this question: How do we show younger staff that we care while also upholding accountability for their job responsibilities? The leaders I see navigating this well are not choosing between care and accountability. They do both. They model what they expect. They communicate the why behind the ask. They protect their teams' time without sacrificing quality....

Curiosity, Listening, and the Willingness to Update

Everyone has blind spots. The hardest part of leading is seeing what we cannot see on our own. That takes curiosity, listening, and a willingness to update what we came in believing. I keep watching this unfold across the peer cohorts I facilitate, and the leaders in those rooms are showing me what it looks like. It starts with curiosity. The leaders I see doing this well show up willing to be...

Building Future Founders: Why We Brought a “Solution Board” to Lake Park High School

What happens when you stop asking high schoolers "what they want to be" and start asking them "how they would solve this?" Innovation and creativity happen in real-time. Mark Connor and I represented our businesses, Provable Solutions LLC and Good Works Results LLC , at the Lake Park High School Career Fair. While we were honored to be among 50+ diverse organizations spanning everything from...

When Fifty Community Leaders Share One Room

What happens when you bring 50 community leaders into the same room to talk about what we're seeing in our students? New connections. Cross-sector problem-solving. And the most common feedback: "I wish we had more time." That's the goal of the Community Leaders Series (https://www.goodworksresults.com/communityleadersseries), creating spaces for businesses, nonprofits, law enforcement,...

Building Trust Through Peer Learning: 2025 Bloomingdale Township Forum Impact

What happens when you give leaders a space to be real with each other for an entire year? The final session of the 2025 Nonprofit Leaders Forum serving Bloomingdale Township answered that question: trust builds, leadership confidence grows, and a professional network emerges that strengthens how leaders serve families across the community. Partners reported significant growth in their awareness...

Forum Impact Report (Township of Schaumburg) – Fall 2025

I recently presented a midpoint Impact Report on the Nonprofit Leaders Forum to the Township of Schaumburg Mental Health Board. View Impact Report Then I asked the Board: What keeps you up at night? Waitlists. Agencies with backlogs in an overburdened system. Access barriers—residents don't know where to start. Network isolation—agencies that need to work together more effectively. When agencies...

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