Leaving Well: nonprofit leadership guidance for workplace exits and transitions

Lisa Marshall is founder and principal of Good Work Consulting, where she helps for-purpose professionals get to the strategic part of their to-do list.  She knows how it feels to be stuck fielding an endless list of to-dos that are urgent and important, but don't necessarily build capacity. And what it's like to daydream about the projects that would make things better (if there were only time to...

Minda Harts is a celebrated author and influential speaker, best known for her bestsellers "The Memo," "Right Within," and the YA book "You Are More Than Magic." She is a respected voice in advancing women of color, self-advocacy, and restoring trust at work. Minda frequently speaks at major conferences and companies, including Nike, Google, Disney, Best Buy, Dreamforce, and the Aspen Ideas Festiv...

Laurell Jones served with distinction in the United States Air Force and retired in the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. During her 23 year career she held multiple roles in financial management and financial analysis with increasing levels of leadership responsibility in international and US based locations. In Laurell's post military career she was a Senior Managing Consultant with IBM for 14 years....

Dr. Jaiya John was orphan-born on ancient Indigenous Anasazi and Pueblo lands in the high desert of New Mexico, and is an internationally recognized freedom worker, poet, author, teacher, and speaker. Jaiya is the founder of Soul Water Rising, a global rehumanizing mission to eradicate oppression. The mission has donated thousands of Jaiya's books in support of social healing, and offers grants to...

Over the past 15 years, Stephen Newland has worked in finance roles at a variety of organizations including nonprofits, startups, early-stage companies, and Fortune 500. Stephen believes in making finance simple & actionable! When he's not heads down in a spreadsheet, he loves to spend time with his wife and daughter at a local coffee shop or watching his favorite Cincinnati sports teams!   Connec...

Amanda Misiko Andere leads with love and disruption. She has spent over twenty years working in the nonprofit and public sector as a leader committed to racial and housing justice through advocacy for systemic change. Prior to joining Funders Together to End Homelessness as their CEO, she served as the CEO of Wider Opportunities for Women, a national advocacy organization. Currently, she serves as...

Lacey Kempinski is a former in-house fundraiser, turned Mom, turned consultant. After more than a decade of in-house fundraising, Motherhood changed the trajectory of Lacey's career. In 2018, when she was due back to work after her second parental leave, Lacey took a leap and founded Balanced Good.  She's on a mission to better support parents and organizations in the non-profit sector. Balanced G...

Camille E. Acey is a mom, a community organizer, a former tech support leader, and founder of the conscious nonprofit closures consultancy The Wind Down. As part of this work, she currently facilitates the Practices of Composting and Hospicing community under the Joseph Rowntree Foundation's Emerging Futures initiative. She was a co-founder of the Collective for Liberation, Ecology, and Technology...

Kamilah specializes in interim solutions, serving as a successful interim executive to nonprofit organizations with budgets of $10+ million. She is a nonprofit executive consultant with two decades of experience in the areas of organizational and relationship effectiveness; change management; interim leadership solutions; and program design/project management, both domestically and internationally...

After nearly fifteen years of fundraising for arts and education organizations, Katie Mendez launched Built to Raise in 2023, providing interim director of development and short-term fractional fundraising services specifically for small and mid-sized nonprofits. She is an artist on the side, loves to explore the world, and her favorite way to spend an afternoon is snuggling on the couch with a ki...

Kemi Ilesanmi is a cultural strategist, coach, and connector with over 25yrs of experience in the arts sector. She has been executive director at The Laundromat Project (The LP), and previously Creative Capital Foundation and Walker Art Center. A graduate of Smith College and NYU, she also serves on several boards and advisory councils. In December 2022, she "left well" after 10yrs at The LP and t...

Nonprofit leaders often have too much on their plates, and not enough time or capacity to effectively choose what task or projects are important vs. urgent vs. should be delegated. In this episode, I'm sharing the well-known concept of the Eisenhower Matrix and how it can be applied to workplace transitions. Listen in to learn how to identify which tasks associated with leaving can be postponed, p...

Rita Sever has worked as an HR Director, and HR consultant and a trainer.  She has worked with social justice organizations throughout the country.  Rita has an MA in Organizational Psychology and is a certified professional coach.  Rita has taught "HR in a Nonprofit" to graduate students at University of San Francisco and Sonoma State University in California.  Rita has also written two books:  S...

Sherrell Dorsey is an award-winning data journalist, entrepreneur, speaker, and author teaching the world to redefine who gets to create and participate in the future. She founded The Plug in 2016,  the first Black data-driven tech news publication to syndicate on the Bloomberg Terminal, which was acquired in 2023 by ImpactAlpha.  As the TED Tech podcast host, Sherrell provides her in-depth analys...

Tatiana O'Hara is Team & Leadership Development Consultant that helps successful, yet overwhelmed online business owners create the structure needed for their team & daily operations, so they can focus on scaling sustainably.    As a corporate leader turned business coach, she's helped dozens of leaders optimize and build their team, and learn essential leadership skills that have yielded hundreds...

Joan says: It often feels as if I've spent my career leaving positions, organizations, and their people. I love beginnings and the energy that comes with stepping into something new and that means that in some way, I love endings as well. With a whole passel of interim gigs under my belt, I now also work at helping others find and succeed in those roles through the Interim Executives Academy and i...

To share your thoughts with me on this episode, please leave me an audio message on SpeakPipe !  To listen to more episodes about values, check out episodes 18, 38, 40, 42 and 48! ~ To take the Workplace Transition Archetype Quiz To learn more about Leaving Well This podcast is produced by Sarah Hartley  

Amy Freitag became president of The New York Community Trust in July 2022. For the prior eight years, she was executive director of the J.M. Kaplan Fund, a 75-year-old family foundation based in New York City. During her tenure, she initiated the J.M.K. Innovation Prize and led grantmaking in criminal justice reform, climate change, democracy, and historical conservation, including several Civil R...

N. Chloé Nwangwu, the brand scientist, is a speaker, behavioral strategist, and brand visibility expert. A former international conflict mediator, she is now the founder of NobiWorks, a brand visibility consultancy where she partners with underrecognized brands, leveraging science to ensure they are impossible to ignore. Her clients have included a number of boutique firms, the High Ambition Coali...

If you're new here, Leaving Well is the art and practice of leaving a place, role, title, or thing with intention and purpose, and when possible … joy.   To chat with me about bringing After Action Reviews to your nonprofit or social impact organization, contact me here .   To learn more about Leaving Well, visit https://www.naomihattaway.com/ To support the production of this podcast, peruse my L...

If you're new here, Leaving Well is the art and practice of leaving a place, role, title, or thing with intention and purpose, and when possible … joy.   Share YOUR strong opinion with me via an audio message on SpeakPipe !    Resources shared in this episode: Africa Brooke's book: Amazon | Bookshop The Decelerator The Wind Down   To learn more about Leaving Well, visit https://www.naomihattaway.c...

If you're new here, Leaving Well is the art and practice of leaving a place, role, title, or thing with intention and purpose, and when possible … joy.   To share your thoughts with me on this episode, please leave me an audio message on SpeakPipe !    To learn more about Leaving Well, visit https://www.naomihattaway.com/ To support the production of this podcast, peruse my Leaving Well Bookshop o...

If you're new here, Leaving Well is the art and practice of leaving a place, role, title, or thing with intention and purpose, and when possible … joy.   Resources and articles mentioned in this episode: Third Sector Academy   To learn more about Leaving Well, visit https://www.naomihattaway.com/ To support the production of this podcast, peruse my Leaving Well Bookshop or buy me a coffee .   This...

If you're new here, Leaving Well is the art and practice of leaving a place, role, title, or thing with intention and purpose, and when possible … joy.   To learn more about Leaving Well, visit https://www.naomihattaway.com/ To support the production of this podcast, peruse my Leaving Well Bookshop or buy me a coffee .  This podcast is produced by Sarah Hartley .  

If you're new here, Leaving Well is the art and practice of leaving a place, role, title, or thing with intention and purpose, and when possible … joy.   To share your thoughts with me on this episode, please leave me an audio message on SpeakPipe !    To learn more about Leaving Well, visit https://www.naomihattaway.com/ To support the production of this podcast, peruse my Leaving Well Bookshop o...