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116: Three C's of Strategy and How Creativity Fits in May 20, 2021

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My guest today is Karla Raines. Karla is an accomplished strategist serving purpose-driven organizations in dynamically competitive industries. Her commitment to mastering the art of strategy led her to a career-defining eureka moment. Her "aha" moment in 2018 occurred when she saw something she'd never seen before. The experience crystallized her intuitive process and inspired her to reverse engineer what she'd taught herself to do over years of hands-on practice.

Karla co-owns an international research and strategy firm, Corona Insights, where she's led countless empathy-based and data-driven strategy processes. She recognizes that creativity and imagination are crucial to the strategy process.

With a unique ability to see beyond what is, Karla leads her clients to discover authentic differentiation and craft plans to realize a competitive advantage.

Abstract painting propels Karla's professional creativity and risk-taking as it fuels her soul. Artists look at the world differently, and creativity opens a new portal. Years of painting have taught Karla to get out of her own way, not to tell herself no, and be open to the power of flow. She wouldn't have discovered Differentiation Zone without it and her insights about the strategy process.

Karla's book Differentiated shares the story of her inventive strategy process, Differentiation Zone®, through real-life vignettes and powerful lessons pulled from over two decades of consulting experience.

Here's what to expect during the episode:

Realizing that we can't just dust off our plans from 2019. Things have changed significantly now!
Because things are now different, thinking outside the box is now more essential than ever.
Our customers and clients have the power to choose. It's up to us to create solutions based on their choices.
Trends that nonprofit executives may want to be aware of. These may very well shape the way you do business.

You can see Karla on her website https://karlarainesart.com

Check her out on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/karlaraines/) and Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/karla.raines.5)

Get her book, Differentiated, on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Differentiated-Breakthrough-Approach-Strategy-Organizations/dp/1736477013

You can also see the Differentiated Zone website here: https://differentiationzone.com/

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115: 4 Tips For Building Your Connections With Board Members May 13, 2021

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In this episode, Mary shares our key factors we know influence the board/executive relationship: executive assets, communication, managing roles and expectations, and alignment.

She defines each of those and how they come into play in your relationship building.

She goes into much more depth about these and more in her book: Love Your Board! The Executive Directors' Guide To Discovering The Sources Of Board Troubles And What To Do About Them. Click on that title to get it!

Reference mentioned in the episode: Golensky, M. (1993). Nonprofit Management & Leadership, 4(2), 177-191.

Mary has over 40 years experience in the nonprofit sector: 26 as an executive and 18 as a board member. She knows your day-to-day challenges first hand and brings experience and expertise to help you have the greatest possible impact. She has been a consultant and coach for 19 years.

Get the guide: 6 Steps You Must Know to Unleash the Potential of Your Nonprofit Board by going here.

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114: How to Talk Across the Racial Divide and More! May 06, 2021

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Today's guest, Dr. Jean Latting, is President of Leading Consciously, LLC, and Professor Emerita at the Graduate College of Social Work (GCSW), University of Houston.

Dr. Latting received her master's degree from Columbia University and a doctorate from the University of North Carolina. She coauthored Reframing Change: How to Deal with Workplace Dynamics, Influence Others, and Bring People Together to Initiate Positive Change.

As a consultant, researcher, and educator, Jean focuses on leadership in multicultural and diverse organizations. Through her organization, Leading Consciously, Jean helps individuals and organizations create resilient, sustainable, multicultural, and diverse settings.

Here's what to expect during the episode:

Recognizing that dealing with sensitive topics is awkward, and that this uneasy feeling is normal.
The importance of the willingness to make mistakes and being open to ask.
Considering managing our relationships and doing business as one thing.
Addressing serious instances of racial discrimination or other similar issues. Sometimes, it may be up to the "victim" to negotiate for the right thing.

You can see Dr. Jean on her website https://www.leadingconsciously.com/ Use coupon code PODCAST5 to get 5% off on her membership program!

Get Mary's free guide: Six Steps You Must Know to Unleash the Potential of Your Board, by going to https://www.hilandconsulting.org/6stepsreport

Let us know the topics or questions you would like to hear about in a future episode. You can do that, and follow us, on Facebook.

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113: Do You Need a Special Person For Digital Marketing? Apr 29, 2021

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My guest today is Dana Snyder. Dana is an entrepreneur, digital strategist, and passionate conscious consumer. She founded Positive Equation in 2017 with a focus on helping nonprofits cultivate passionate online audiences of donors, partners, and advocates using social media.

Currently based in Atlanta, Dana has worked with Movember, Dress for Success, USTA, Honest Company, Sports Illustrated, American Idol, The Global Foodbanking Network, The Gary Sinise Foundation, LA84 Foundation, and many more on their digital strategies.

Dana is a member of the Purpose Collaborative, an invitation-only, global group of 40+ boutique firms, consultancies, and subject matter experts, all passionate about social purpose.

Dana graduated with a Bachelor's Degree in Advertising and Public Relations from the University of Central Florida.

Here's what to expect during the episode:

Do board members truly need someone that specializes in digital marketing?
Reasons for why someone might not see the results they expect from social media.
The need to match what appears on the social media side of things to the business goals of the organization.
The difference between thinking strategically from thinking tactically.
Is this marketing position a full-time job? How do you hire someone to do this job well?

You can see Dana on her website https://positiveequation.com/ Her Instagram is on https://www.instagram.com/positivequation/

Get Mary's free guide: Six Steps You Must Know to Unleash the Potential of Your Board, by going to https://www.hilandconsulting.org/6stepsreport

Let us know the topics or questions you would like to hear about in a future episode. You can do that, and follow us, on Facebook.

Connect with Mary!

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Company Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hilandconsulting

Website: https://www.hilandconsulting.org

112: Lessons Learned From The Nonprofit Show Apr 22, 2021

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My guest today is Julia Patrick. As the Founder of the American Nonprofit Academy, Julia sees the passion and dedication of service organizations daily. A multi-generational philanthropist, Board Member and volunteer, she has been involved with community service for as long as she can remember.

Julia has served on cultural, social service and educational Boards in addition to the more than 500 nonprofits she has worked with directly. During her Board work, despite all the good will and commitment to supporting nonprofits, she realized there was something missing. This led her to found the American Nonprofit Academy in 2014.

With many significant developmental milestones, by 2019 more than 100 courses were fully available through the American Nonprofit Academy's innovative website portal. In 2020, driven by a desire to keep nonprofit leaders connected during the COVID-19 pandemic Julia created a national web series The Corona Chronicles.

This past year Julia realized that her daily show was gaining global traction and she re-branded it to The Nonprofit Show taking the audience past the crisis and into the future. Today, The Nonprofit Show can be seen live Monday thru Friday as well as streaming. Combined, her channels reach into 69 million homes in the United States.

Even with all that Julia continues to lead lectures, Board retreats and keynote speeches. She travels across the globe virtually spreading her messages of nonprofit success and advocacy with the mantra: When Nonprofits Succeed, We All Succeed.

Here's what to expect during the episode:

Facing the reality that the pandemic has been on for more than a year and that reinventing ourselves is crucial to success.
The organizations that took a step back to wait for things to return to "normal" now have difficulties trying to catch up.
The benefits of working from home that changed the dynamics of how we do business.
Leaders are the foundation of the organization. If you as a leader go down (financially, physically, and emotionally), everything else follows.

You can see Julia on her website https://americannonprofitacademy.com/

Her email address is jcp@americannonprofitacademy.com

Get a free consultation appointment with Mary by going to https://www.talkwithmary.com/

Let us know the topics or questions you would like to hear about in a future episode. You can do that, and follow us, on Facebook.

Connect with Mary!

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Company Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hilandconsulting

Website: https://www.hilandconsulting.org

111: Group Alchemy: What Is It And Why Do You Need It? Apr 15, 2021

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Award winning, best-selling author and nonprofit consultant, Dr. Deborah Pruitt believes that every group is capable of greatness.

Her programs are committed to teaching transformational leaders how to create a strong culture of collaboration that converts untapped capabilities into extraordinary results. Her clients describe breakthroughs in clarity, effectiveness and camaraderie, using phrases like "sea change" and "life changing" to describe the effects of learning the habits of collaboration that Deborah calls "Group Alchemy®."

In Group Alchemy®, Deborah translates her thirty years of cross-cultural research as an anthropologist into straight talk about how culture underpins everything in an organization and determines what is possible. Drawing on more than twenty years of organizational-effectiveness consulting in nonprofits she developed a formula of practical steps to guide any group to uncover the obstacles in their way, and to carve out the path forward that will support true collaboration, initiative, and creativity. This means they go from struggling to achieving extraordinary results while also building more enriching ways of working together.

The Formula for Group Alchemy is explained in her book, Group Alchemy: This Six Elements of Highly Successful Collaboration.

Deborah earned her doctorate degree in anthropology from the University of California at Berkeley.

Here's what to expect during the episode:

What is group alchemy? How does it deal with intractable problems?
An in-depth look at what culture really is. There's an ideal culture, but also the real culture.
The value of creating an organizational culture that fixes its own problems.
Involving the people into the work we do by properly addressing our tendency to be in a position of control.
If things are going well, how do you ensure that it continues into the future?

You can see Deborah on her website http://groupalchemy.net/

Her LinkedIn is on https://www.linkedin.com/in/deborahpruitt/ and her email address is dpruitt@groupalchemy.net

Get Deborah's report, The Top Five Secrets to Transform Your Group Into Gold, by emailing info@groupalchemy.net

Get Mary's free guide: Six Steps You Must Know to Unleash the Potential of Your Board, by going to https://www.hilandconsulting.org/6stepsreport

Let us know the topics or questions you would like to hear about in a future episode. You can do that, and follow us, on Facebook.

Connect with Mary!

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Company Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hilandconsulting

Website: https://www.hilandconsulting.org

110: Three steps for effective decision-making Apr 08, 2021

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Today Mary shares with you a story and some tips, particularly for nonprofit boards, about making effective decisions. Having agreements in advance for the process you will use, especially for high-stakes decisions, helps your board develop as a team.

The three steps address: defining criteria for high and low stakes decisions, decision making rules, and an assessment process.

Get the guide: 6 Steps You Must Know to Unleash the Potential of Your Nonprofit Board by going here.

Let us know the topics or questions you would like to hear about in a future episode. You can do that, and follow us, on Facebook.

To learn more about our previous guests, listen to past episodes, and get to know your host, go to: Hiland Consulting

Connect with Mary!

To schedule a free consultation with Mary go to: Talk With Mary.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maryhiland

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Website: https://www.hilandconsulting.org/

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109: Experienced Executive Shares Lessons in Confidence Apr 01, 2021

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Kelly Nagle has devoted her life to advocating for social justice and empowering others. For over a decade, Kelly worked for some of the leading nonprofits in the country managing teams and organizations, advocating for health equity, building grassroots fundraising campaigns and implementing community health programs.

Past positions include Executive Director with the March of Dimes, Vice President of Development for Greater NYC with the American Lung Association and Executive Director of Susan G. Komen North Jersey.

As Executive Director of Komen North Jersey, Kelly was responsible for translating the organization's mission and vision into a strategic plan that met decreased barriers to healthcare access through advocacy and grant funding, equity-based programs, and community education.

Under Kelly's leadership Komen North Jersey's work to reduce breast cancer disparities and advocate to reduce out of pocket prescription drug costs was recognized with the Healthcare

Institute of New Jersey's Patient Access and Advocacy Award. Kelly was also elected by her peers to the Affiliate Leadership Council to represent the interests of 60+ affiliates with the national office.

In January 2020, Kelly followed her passions for global policy and social justice by cofounding Teen Think Tank Project, a student-run policy institute for high achieving high school students. Teen Think Tank Project fosters critical thinking, research techniques, and problem solving to develop policy frameworks for real-life issues and empower students to become future changemakers.

Kelly is also the Founder and Chief Impact Officer of Kelly Nagle LLC. Kelly is dedicated to self-empowerment and guiding individuals towards finding the courage and confidence to fulfill their life's purpose. Through the uplifting community, Uncharted Community, Kelly is helping clients navigate life's challenges and live the best version of themselves. Kelly shares her self-empowerment expertise as contributing author in Engaging Experts: Your Guide to the People and Connections You Need to Go from Ordinary to Extraordinary.

In addition to her start-up endeavors, Kelly is a certified group TRX instructor. She holds an MA from Rutgers University in Political Science—United Nations and Global Policy.

Here's what to expect during the episode:

The need for a leader to have calming and reassuring confidence.
Feeling "pulled around" in different directions by conflicting ideas from various people in the organization or nonprofit.
Applying the idea, "confidence is not synonymous with authoritarianism".
Giving others control as a leader and complimenting your people's strengths and "not-so-strengths."
Showing vulnerability comes with confidence.
The fact that leaders learn and should ask for help.

You can see Kerry on her website https://kellynagle.com/

Her LinkedIn profile is on https://www.linkedin.com/in/kellyenagle/ and her Facebook Page is on https://www.facebook.com/TheKellyNagle

Teen Think Tank Project: https://georgemiltongroup.com/services/educational-programs/thinktankproject/

Get Mary's free guide: Six Steps You Must Know to Unleash the Potential of Your Board, by going to https://www.hilandconsulting.org/6stepsreport

Let us know the topics or questions you would like to hear about in a future episode. You can do that, and follow us, on Facebook.

Connect with Mary!

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Company Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hilandconsulting

Website: https://www.hilandconsulting.org

108: 3 Keys to a Flexible Nonprofit Workplace Mar 25, 2021

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My guest is Ms. Cami Hawkins. Cami is the CEO of Marathon Kids. She joined the organization in August, 2017. Prior to joining Marathon Kids, Cami spent more than 20 years in the healthcare industry with expertise in the areas of population health management, integrated delivery systems, payer strategies, healthcare strategic planning, medical group management and physician integration.

She has assisted hospital and physician organizations throughout the country with strategic planning, operational assessment and performance improvement. A lifelong volunteer and committed community leader Cami has led Parent Teacher organizations at the primary and secondary level. Her passion for children and children's health has been the focal point of her involvement across several not-for-profit organizations.

Ms. Hawkins received her bachelor's degree from The University of Texas at Austin and her master's in healthcare administration from Trinity University in San Antonio.

Here's what to expect during the episode:

Creating a "digital transformation" in a program that's physical in nature.
A peek into the relationships between nonprofits and the education system.
Ways to give a work-life balance by having a flexible working environment.
The impact of rest on productivity and passion for the job, especially in the nonprofit sector.
Encouraging autonomy and innovation with your employees.
The more trust there is, the fewer rules need to be in place.

You can see Cami on her website https://marathonkids.org/

Her email is cami@marathonkids.org

Check out Marathon Kids on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/MarathonKids/), Twitter (https://www.instagram.com/marathonkids/), and Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/marathonkids/)

Get Mary's free guide: Six Steps You Must Know to Unleash the Potential of Your Board, by going to https://www.hilandconsulting.org/6stepsreport

Let us know the topics or questions you would like to hear about in a future episode. You can do that, and follow us, on Facebook.

Connect with Mary!

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Company Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hilandconsulting

Website: https://www.hilandconsulting.org

107: Assessing Nonprofit Management: Tools & Tips Mar 18, 2021

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Mickey Desai produces the Nonprofit SnapCast podcast. With an M.A. in Counseling Psychology, almost two decades of business development experience and a résumé that touches IBM, TechBridge, and Southern Crescent Habitat for Humanity, Mickey brings knowledge, understanding, and a unique perspective to every project.

Mickey has a curiosity and sensitivity that stems from his academic pursuits and his experience working within a variety of organizational cultures. He is able to ensure that all parties feel heard in working toward problem resolution and maintains the mark of a good conversation is in the listening.

Here's what to expect during the episode:

An introduction to the nonprofit snapshot and the "undesired" need for nonprofits to have themselves evaluated.
The value of listening to a whole spectrum of perspectives through podcasts or normal conversations.
Balancing passion with good business sense. Be grounded in reality!
Facing the difficulty of matching your capacity with the organization's needs.
The essence of breathing joy into the things you do each day.

You can see Mickey on his websites http://nonprofitsnapshot.org/ and http://nonprofitsnapcast.org/

His email is mickey@nonprofitsnapshot.org

Get Mary's free guide: Six Steps You Must Know to Unleash the Potential of Your Board, by going to https://www.hilandconsulting.org/6stepsreport

Let us know the topics or questions you would like to hear about in a future episode. You can do that, and follow us, on Facebook.

Connect with Mary!

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maryhiland

Inspired Nonprofit Leadership Facebook Group: https://tinyurl.com/inspirednonprofitleadership

Company Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hilandconsulting

Website: https://www.hilandconsulting.org

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