Finding the right facilitator for your nonprofit leadership retreat can feel like searching for a needle in a haystack. You need someone who understands the unique pressures of mission-driven organisations, who can navigate board-staff dynamics with grace, and who will leave your team with a clear plan rather than a stack of flipchart photos gathering dust in the corner.   The stakes are real. According to BoardSource, only 29% of nonprofit boards have a written succession pl

Your district leadership team sits in a room together for a precious handful of professional development days each year. The superintendent, assistant superintendents, curriculum directors, chief academic officers, and principal supervisors all clear their calendars. The facilitator you bring in for that day will either catalyse a shift in how your cabinet thinks, communicates, and executes, or it will be another forgettable in-service that changes nothing by Friday.   The ch

Finding the right keynote speaker for your association conference is one of the most consequential decisions you will make as an event organiser. Unlike corporate events where attendance is mandatory and budgets are flexible, association conferences rely on voluntary attendance from members who have paid their own way. Your keynote speaker is the single biggest factor in whether members register, stay engaged, and feel their investment was worthwhile.   According to the Profe

Finding the right speaker for a school business manager conference is one of the most consequential decisions a conference committee will make all year. The wrong choice leaves delegates politely checking their phones, while the right speaker shifts how an entire profession approaches its work for months afterwards. School business managers, bursars, and school business leaders sit at the intersection of finance, compliance, people management, facilities, risk, and community

Finding the right leadership speaker for your independent school is one of the most consequential decisions you will make this academic year. The wrong choice wastes a precious INSET day, leaving staff disengaged and your professional development budget lighter with nothing to show for it. The right choice shifts how your senior leadership team thinks about governance, culture, and strategy for months afterwards.   The challenge for headteachers, bursars, and deputy heads acr

Patrick Lencioni argues that meetings are the most important activity in any organisation, and that bad meetings are the root cause of most organisational dysfunction. In Death by Meeting, he identifies four distinct types of meetings that every leadership team needs: daily check-ins, weekly tacticals, ad hoc topicals, and quarterly offsites. Each serves a different purpose, and confusing them is the primary reason meetings fail.   Most leaders approach meetings as a single c