Communicate, Lead, Organizational Culture, Social Impact Architects, Storytelling
Many of the Southwest family were saddened when Colleen Barrett, the woman behind many of Southwest’s best ideas who rose from Executive Assistant to President & COO passed away last month. Many of these ideas are captured in her book, Lead with LUV, coauthored...
Business Planning, Grow, Growth/Scaling Plans, Organizational Assessments, Social Impact Architects, Strategic Planning
Today is the 80th anniversary of D-Day – the day when more than 160,000 Allied forces landed in Normandy, France, as part of the largest air, land and sea invasion ever executed. The goal of the mission was to liberate Nazi-occupied France, and more than 9,000 Allied...
Collaborate, Impact Measurement, Lean Start-Up, Organizational Assessments, Social Enterprise, Social Impact Architects
What’s in a name? This famous phrase from William Shakespeare’s play, Romeo and Juliet, speaks to an important truth. Since I started in the social sector almost three decades ago, I have noticed that we have a funny habit of throwing around important words, such as...
Guest Blogs, Lean Start-Up, Marketing & Communication, Organizational Assessments, Social Impact Architects
We have been privileged recently to be the strategic partner for a long-time client and friend, TACA – The Arts Community Alliance, in Dallas on a first-of-its-kind Arts Accelerator. It is a 10-month, cohort-based program designed to increase organizational capacity,...
Business Planning, Feasibility Studies, Grow, Impact, Impact Measurement, Social Impact Architects, Strategic Planning
Like many of you, we were disheartened that according to the latest Edelman Trust Barometer, trust was not only at an all-time low, but also nonprofits were no longer the most trusted institution in the United States. Business now holds that title. How did this happen...
Collaborate, Communicate, Fundraising, Grow, Organizational Assessments, Organizational Culture, Social Impact Architects, Strategic Planning, System Change
Change is all around us – political, social, technological and even generational. Many sociologists say we are at an 80-year shift. Similar to the monumental shift from horse and buggy to automobiles, the very way we live is changing and it is impacting every...