Leadership
Accelerating Innovation in Challenging Times: Building a Culture of Personal Growth (L)
The need to produce more with less is causing our field to attempt to increase efficiency through new innovative methods. Regardless of the change initiative, organizational leaders frequently find that one of the greatest barriers to implementation is resistance from their own team. In this workshop, the presenter will explain a change management model that has been used by leading behavioral health organizations nationwide. Attendees will gain an understanding of the principles of effective change management and tips for implementing those principles.Read full description »
Brad Zimmerman, managing director, Personal Mastery Programs
Tags: Navigating and Understanding the Nonprofit Mergers and Acquisitions Landscape (L)
The nonprofit sector has historically viewed nonprofit merger and acquisition activity, or “consolidation,” warily. Most such activity is undertaken opportunistically; that is, to deal with financial distress or leadership departures. But mergers approached strategically and carried out well can increase the ability of nonprofit groups to reach more clients and serve them better, maybe even at a lower cost.Read full description »
Alexander Cortez, manager, The Bridgespan Group
Not in Anyone’s Back Yard: Transformation from a Residential Campus to Community-Based Care in the Face of Extreme Opposition (L)
Following four years and two failed attempts to relocate a residential center for teenage boys, Secret Harbor transformed its 60-year-old program into a dynamic community-based continuum of services. This workshop will explore the multiple obstacles and opposition both public and private that faced this agency’s attempts to transform into mainstream rural Northwest Washington. The result is a textbook case of how to “turn lemons into lemonade” as the agency adopted innovative principles of family-driven, youth-guided care to convert opposition into support.Read full description »
Brian Carroll, president and chief executive officer, Secret Harbor
Succession Planning on a Dime (L)
Both the good and bad experiences of a small organization navigating its way through an intensive strategic planning process, including decisions on infrastructure needs, talent builds, and resource development, will be reviewed in detail during this workshop. The presenter will share how the organization used a number of consultants at various points in its strategic planning process to help drive major changes to the organization within an eight month process.Read full description »
Colleen Ellingson, chief executive officer, Adoption Resources of Wisconsin
Do I Have the Right Team? Assessing and Developing Leadership and Management Competencies (L, M)
As a senior executive, you live in the future; you see what is coming and respond with strategies, leading with mission, vision, and values. But when you arrive at your future, who will follow you? Now is the time to ask, “Do I have the right team?” This workshop will help attendees learn what competencies are imperative for an executive team, how to build current competencies, and when to recruit for new competencies.Read full description »
Dan M. Aune, senior consultant, business development director, OPEN MINDS
Moving from Good to Great: One Agency’s Improvement Strategy (M, L)
During this workshop, staff from Family Services of Northwestern Pennsylvania will share how the organization has accepted Jim Collins’ challenge in his book, Good to Great, to move beyond accepting ”good” as a reasonable goal and begin striving to become “great.” Presenters will provide details on how Family Services incorporated a variety of strategies from the book in an effort to redefine the culture of the agency through focused example, discipline, creativity, honest self-examination, and respectful accountability.Read full description »
Danielle Szklenski, director of program development and evaluation, and Tom Vinca, president and CEO, Family Services of Northwestern Pennsylvania
The Alliance thanks these organizations that have already committed to sponsoring this year’s event:
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