I want to talk about a problem that is way more common than you might think. The one where funders say they love you, but still under-invest in your work. Chances are good you know exactly what I’m talking about. You've got t...
We all know that stories are important when we're engaging decisionmakers. But we don't always know what story is going to be the right story. And how to tell that story in a way that is really going to pull that decisionmaker in, and actually move them closer to yes. So often I hear from Nonprofit…
Tell me if this has ever happened to you. You were solid with your messaging. You had that dialed in, and you'd engaged the decisionmaker and gotten them to the point where they're interested in your stuff. And then when you ...
For a change I want to share what it feels like for me to be on the receiving end of some amazing coaching. There's so much value in working with great coaches. They help me stretch my sense of what’s possible, they ask the r...
What if you only had 60 seconds to capture the attention of that decisionmaker? You're in the room with somebody important and you need something from them. From the moment you walk in the door, the risk that they’re not going to engage goes up for every second that you’re not actively engaging the…
Right now, maybe more than ever, it's so important for Nonprofit leaders to be as effective in our advocacy work as possible, while dealing with the fact that we have super-limited bandwidth. So anything we can do to be faster and more efficient and more effective getting to those results, the bett…
