Sustain the joy of leadership that matters.
Pushing mission-driven boards and executive leaders to think differently since 2019.
We support the leaders of society-changing organizations in both sustaining their personal impact— as well as their organization’s impact—and supporting those around them in growing as leaders.
Too often, social sector leadership is unsustainable and leads to burnout, unplanned turnover, and volatility, causing harm to leaders and the communities they serve. Our work focuses on planning and reflection processes designed to build strong internal leadership pipelines. We cultivate board and executive leader partnerships that foster sustainability, longevity, and wellness in public service. To that end, we center antiracism in our work.
Support Offerings
Leadership Sustainability and Succession Planning
This is an annual process that we facilitate with executive leaders and boards of directors to plan for all contingencies impacting executive leadership sustainability and transitions. This process focuses on cultivating strong internal pipelines to ensure the longterm stability of the organization as well as the sustainability of the executive leadership position. See FAQs on the process in the navigation bar above.
Parental Leave & Sabbatical Planning
We facilitate planning processes for boards and executive leaders ahead of short or long-term leave, including parental leave as well as sabbatical. During this process we establish the reallocation of responsibilities across team members, communication protocols, and a reentry process following the period of leave. Our guidance on each consideration that we bring to the table is founded in best practice.
Leadership & Talent Planning Workshops
We will introduce the concepts of leadership succession and sustainability planning to your team and facilitate a planning workshop to integrate these concepts. Participants will spend the workshop making plans to implement practices that result in deeper, more diverse, and stronger internal talent pipelines.