Nov 22, 2017 | Breaking Through, Building Community, Creative Leadership
I sat down to write my post for this week during our holiday of gratitude, and immediately felt as if the words were incredibly familiar. I looked back and realized that what I wrote last year for thanksgiving remains pertinent to me. So at the risk of sounding...
Oct 22, 2017 | Breaking Through, Creative Leadership, Managing Change
As it’s just two months before the end of year, and autumn, (a season when everyone seems to write about change), I thought I would join the chorus, and spend a moment thinking about subtle, incremental transformations. I live near a city park with a lake that I...
Oct 2, 2017 | Breaking Through, Building Community, Creative Leadership
Like many, I struggle today to know how to go about ‘business as usual.’ How do we address one another via email or over the phone or as we pass-by one another on the street in the wake of these tragedies? Our work carries on, especially as we build and...
Jul 12, 2017 | Breaking Through, Creative Leadership, Essentialism
Essentialism, a philosophy and way of life conceived by Greg McKeown, has become a seminal approach to my work. I gave it some space during my summer newsletter and it seemed to strike a chord with several people who wrote back to me. So I thought I would spend some...
Jun 12, 2017 | Breaking Through, Creative Leadership
Over the last twelve years I’ve had the honor of holding executive leadership roles in several nonprofits. Sometimes these opportunities have arisen because my skillset has met the demands of the tasks at hand, other times I just happened to not be in the room when...
May 12, 2017 | Breaking Through, Creative Leadership, Developing Teams
by Matt Gray, Sophia Gedion, and Jessica Previch, with insights from Trevon and Jessica Brandhorst Every team is unique as it’s made up of different individuals and has a distinct set of goals, visions, and scopes of work. While likely similar, even within the same...
