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Leading Change Through People: Innovation, Mission, and the Right Structure (Workforce Cohort – October 2026)

"We're going through the same things, just in different seasons of our organization's history." That's what leaders in our Agency Capacity Builder - Workforce Cohort keep discovering: sit at the same table each month, and your toughest workforce challenges turn out to be shared ones. And the ideas are not staying in the room. A stay interview first tried with one team was picked up by HR and opened to the whole agency. Ideas from these sessions are showing up in leadership meetings and...

The Coach Approach Workshop with Options & Advocacy for McHenry County

The leadership team at Options & Advocacy for McHenry County spent an afternoon coaching each other out loud, on real situations. The workshop was on turning a one-on-one into a coaching conversation. I had the opportunity to write and facilitate the training. This team came up doing case management, counseling, and advocacy. Stepping in with the answer is the instinct that made them good at the work, and it is the hardest one to set down in front of the people you lead. Grateful for a...

Seeing the Office and the Shelter in the Same Morning (Schaumburg Nonprofit Leaders Forum – September 2026)

There is a difference between hearing about an agency's work and standing inside it. Our fourth Schaumburg Township Nonprofit Leaders Forum was hosted at The Harbour (https://theharbour.org)'s administrative offices, and while we met, we could hear the team around us: people on calls, laughing, figuring things out together. Afterward, we drove over to the youth shelter. It is beautiful, and every corner of it is intentional, built with youth in mind for the time in their lives when they arrive...

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