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Leading in Tough Times
Leading in Tough Times
In a tough economy, good judgment, critical thinking, and leading by example and inclusion are crucial skills in ensuring the sustainability of nonprofit organizations - including Social Venture Partners!
Join SVP partners from around the network in Phoenix on April 23 for an exploration of contemporary leadership and convening practices and how these contribute to building teamwork, aid collaboration efforts, strengthen your SVP and enrich the work you do with nonprofit organizations.
This Peer Learning session focuses on strategies that support the creation of a leadership culture where partners share responsibility, innovation comes from all corners of the organization and problems are solved collaboratively. But, it is not an academic exercise. Leading in real time is part of our model, so we will roll up our sleeves and discuss the biggest challenges we're facing this year and use shared learnings and experience to both address current situations and better understand how leadership development integrates into our efforts.
Who should attend?
This session is one part of an initiative to highlight leadership as a fundamental aspect of all the work (and play) we carry out in SVP. Any partner who is actively engaged in the SVP mission will add to the dialogue, as will staff and invited guests from investee organizations.
Goals
Convene partners & staff for a deep conversation about leadership development in the SVP model.
- Personal leadership: a practical look at the qualities of a highly effective leader in SVP
- Coaching tactics: ways we might embed leadership into our SVP culture, supporting partners as they assume new roles
- Challenges & opportunities in governance, strategies for sustaining our organization, investing in and engaging with nonprofits, working in the community, growing ourselves as philanthropists, partnering with other funders
CONVENERS
Nancy Cannon O'Connell
Nancy Cannon-OConnell is an executive coach who brings over twenty years of management experience to her work. She has held senior positions in strategy development and worked as a management consultant.Today, she works with leaders on building highly effective teams, talent development and strategic thinking.
Lisa Johnson
Lisa Johnson is a Leadership Consultant and Executive Coach with extensive experience as a Coach to Leaders and a driver of team building initiatives with a particular focus in High Technology, Medical and Financial Services and Academic organizations. Her client list includes AT&T, Apple Computer, Hewlett Packard, Sun Microsystems, Federal Express Freight, Morgan Stanley, Mayo Clinic and Hospital and Comerica Bank.
Nancy and Lisa will be joined by co-conveners Bob Wright, founding partner of Dallas SVP and Paul Shoemaker, Executive Director, SVP Seattle.
Leadership
"Leadership" is a concept we often resist. It seems immodest, even self aggrandizing, to think of ourselves as leaders. But if it is true that we are made for community, then leadership is everyone's vocation, and it can be an evasion to insist that it is not. When we live in the close-knit ecosystem called community, everyone follows and everyone leads. Even I,a person who is unfit to be president of anything, who once galloped away from institutions on a high horse,I have come to understand that, for better or for worse, I lead by word and deed simply because I am here doing what I do. If you are also here, doing what you do, then you also exercise leadership.
Parker Palmer, Leading From Within
SVPAZs 10th Anniversary - Join the party!
SVP Arizona celebrate its 10th anniversary on the evening of Friday April 24 - extend your stay to join Phoenix partners to mark this special occasion.
Book your room today!
Book your room at the Firesky Resort and Spa at the Social Venture Partners rate of $179 per night. Call the hotel directly at 480.945.7666.
Discount on Airport Shuttle
Book a shuttle through Super Shuttle (www.supershuttle.com) and get $4 off the roundtrip cost of the shuttle. Enter the discount code: T3CP3.
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LocationFiresky Resort
4925 N. Scottsdale Road
Scottsdale, AZ 85251
United States
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