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Here’s a LinkedIn post that highlights what’s in your “Conscious Leadership Elevator” newsletter, keeping it compelling and easy to read: 🚀 Conscious Leadership Elevator is LIVE! 🚀 This issue is packed with bold insights to elevate your leadership and amplify your social impact. Here’s what’s inside: 👉 Curiosity in Conscious Leadership Can Backfire—Unless You Do This Curiosity is often seen as a leader’s superpower, but what if it’s actually holding you back? We explore the hidden risks of curiosity and share a game-changing strategy that transforms it into your most powerful tool for conscious leadership. 👉 Growing with Purpose: 10 Strategies to Weave Social Solutions into Your Business DNA Are you holding off on making a social impact until you're profitable? Think again. We break down how integrating purpose into your business from the start can actually fuel growth. Plus, I’m thrilled to feature Melissa Kaye, founder of @Elev8 Villages who is creating life-changing opportunities for emancipated foster youth. Her story will inspire you to take action! 💡 This newsletter is all about giving you the strategies, inspiration, and insights to lead with impact—because waiting for 'someday' is no longer an option- but you all know that! Dive in and subscribe to the YouMeWe Infusion for even more inspiring stories and practical tools to accelerate your conscious leadership, amplify your authentic voice, and accelerate your sustainable social impact. https://lnkd.in/g7U-6eEE 💬 Drop a comment or DM me if you want to explore how to ride your next leadership wave! 🌊 #ConsciousLeadership #SocialImpact #YouMeWeAmplified #LeadershipDevelopment #PurposeDrivenBusiness https://lnkd.in/gA6H6zJh

Finding the energy and courage to meet this moment In our initial post of this series, we wrote about how challenges contain energy and possibility - although, admittedly, it does not always feel that way! Challenges push each of us to find resilience, presence and love. When we get to the hard stuff, we can look away - or we can find a path through. We are inspired by how our clients — and so many of you — are finding that resilience. The bottom line is that building a more equitable world in which all people thrive demands funding. We need to rally ourselves and our teams to see what is happening and keep all of us moving forward. In these times, it is more important than ever to be clear, aligned, vocal and proactive. Read the full post at https://bit.ly/3ziV1EV Want more posts on nonprofit strategy, racial equity, and leadership? Subscribe https://bit.ly/3qmL28Q

We say this EVERY day around here: The most IMPORTANT parts of your plan (i.e. the DECISIONS) should fit on... ➡➡ 🧾 ONE page. ONE. PAGE. Folx. That’s IT! 🫴 Hope that takes some pressure off your bodies and minds. Here’s to the kind of planning that’s THAT clear + simple, 🧭+⚡ ⚡⚡⚡⚡⚡⚡⚡⚡⚡⚡⚡⚡ 👋 We are Planning School. We’re reimagining strategic planning for the purpose-driven businesses, nonprofits, and public servants who are creating a sustainable + interconnected future. FOLLOW for lessons in #leadership, #strategy, and #being. 💙 You don’t have to struggle to do good in this world. 💙 #strategicplanning #holisticleadership #leadershipdevelopment #leadingchange #changemanagement #changemakers #climateaction #socialjustice #gotoplanningschool

Finding the energy and courage to meet this moment In our initial post of this series, we wrote about how challenges contain energy and possibility - although, admittedly, it does not always feel that way! Challenges push each of us to find resilience, presence and love. When we get to the hard stuff, we can look away - or we can find a path through. We are inspired by how our clients — and so many of you — are finding that resilience. The bottom line is that building a more equitable world in which all people thrive demands funding. We need to rally ourselves and our teams to see what is happening and keep all of us moving forward. In these times, it is more important than ever to be clear, aligned, vocal and proactive. Read the full post at https://bit.ly/3ziV1EV Want more posts on nonprofit strategy, racial equity, and leadership? Subscribe https://bit.ly/3qmL28Q

Recently, we had the gratifying experience of holding a closing conversation with a strategic planning client who had completed the creation of their strategic plan. During their engagement with The Ross Collective, they weren’t just working on strategic planning - they moved offices, dealt with personnel changes, and continued their organization's offerings. At the same time, with our support and facilitation, they found time to come together to build their vision, mission, strategies, and goals. Now the work of strategic planning was complete. Yet the work coming out of the strategic plan had just started. Part of our process includes discussing implementation, where we talk together about systems to put in place to make the strategic plan a living document. As we spent some time reflecting on the areas of focus for the organization, it was exciting to hear the energy and clarity expressed in the conversation. Staff and board members know what they are going to work on in the coming months and years -- and what is less of a priority. We spoke about how they would continue to check in about progress on the plan - and how they might hold their goals flexibly, making changes as new circumstances emerged. When done right, planning conversations - whether you are building a five-year plan or a one-year plan -- support energy, alignment, and focus. And by the way, this post and the planning template is a revised version of a template we’ve shared previously. The structure of the conversation we share below can work at the end of each year. To read more and access our free 2025 planning template, go to https://bit.ly/3VtGM8F Hi, I'm Renee - our consulting firm The Ross Collective designs and leads inclusive, participatory #strategicplanning and #boardgovernance processes alongside #nonprofit leaders. Stay in touch about via our free 2x monthly e-list on nonprofit strategy, racial equity and leadership - https://bit.ly/3qmL28Q

Recently, we had the gratifying experience of holding a closing conversation with a strategic planning client who had completed the creation of their strategic plan. During their engagement with The Ross Collective, they weren’t just working on strategic planning - they moved offices, dealt with personnel changes, and continued their organization's offerings. At the same time, with our support and facilitation, they found time to come together to build their vision, mission, strategies, and goals. Now the work of strategic planning was complete. Yet the work coming out of the strategic plan had just started. Part of our process includes discussing implementation, where we talk together about systems to put in place to make the strategic plan a living document. As we spent some time reflecting on the areas of focus for the organization, it was exciting to hear the energy and clarity expressed in the conversation. Staff and board members know what they are going to work on in the coming months and years -- and what is less of a priority. We spoke about how they would continue to check in about progress on the plan - and how they might hold their goals flexibly, making changes as new circumstances emerged. When done right, planning conversations - whether you are building a five-year plan or a one-year plan -- support energy, alignment, and focus. And by the way, this post and the planning template is a revised version of a template we’ve shared previously. The structure of the conversation we share below can work at the end of each year. To read more and access our free 2025 planning template, go to https://bit.ly/3VtGM8F Hi, I'm Renee - our consulting firm The Ross Collective designs and leads inclusive, participatory #strategicplanning and #boardgovernance processes alongside #nonprofit leaders. Stay in touch about via our free 2x monthly e-list on nonprofit strategy, racial equity and leadership - https://bit.ly/3qmL28Q

Recently, we had the gratifying experience of holding a closing conversation with a strategic planning client who had completed the creation of their strategic plan. During their engagement with The Ross Collective, they weren’t just working on strategic planning - they moved offices, dealt with personnel changes, and continued their organization's offerings. At the same time, with our support and facilitation, they found time to come together to build their vision, mission, strategies, and goals. Now the work of strategic planning was complete. Yet the work coming out of the strategic plan had just started. Part of our process includes discussing implementation, where we talk together about systems to put in place to make the strategic plan a living document. As we spent some time reflecting on the areas of focus for the organization, it was exciting to hear the energy and clarity expressed in the conversation. Staff and board members know what they are going to work on in the coming months and years -- and what is less of a priority. We spoke about how they would continue to check in about progress on the plan - and how they might hold their goals flexibly, making changes as new circumstances emerged. When done right, planning conversations - whether you are building a five-year plan or a one-year plan -- support energy, alignment, and focus. And by the way, this post and the planning template is a revised version of a template we’ve shared previously. The structure of the conversation we share below can work at the end of each year. To read more and access our free 2025 planning template, go to https://bit.ly/3VtGM8F Hi, I'm Renee - our consulting firm The Ross Collective designs and leads inclusive, participatory #strategicplanning and #boardgovernance processes alongside #nonprofit leaders. Stay in touch about via our free 2x monthly e-list on nonprofit strategy, racial equity and leadership - https://bit.ly/3qmL28Q

I'm often asked by prospects, "what kind of participation rate can we expect to see on Groundswell?" It's a fair question to ask, but nearly impossible to answer. The reason is that despite the fact that we wake up everyday and aim to build tools that are intuitive, user friendly, and consumer quality in their design, a superior platform will only get a company so far. What gets them further? Leadership. If social impact matters to a company's leadership - if they're vocal internally about it, if they hold their managers accountable to it, if they share their impact publicly - then the participation will be tenfold what it would absent that leader's passion. That's why I LOVE working with founders and executives that have an authentic passion for improving the communities in which their people work and live, while inspiring their people to become modern philanthropists. #socialimpact #csr #corporatesocialresponsibility #nonprofit #esg #DEI #community #founders #leadership