Sometimes It Takes More Than a Village (AKA Gratitude)
A dear friend and I (Myriam Khoury for those of you who know us both), recently gave a keynote address at a conference for non-profit leaders. The topic centered on bringing strategy to life, and was motivated by a paper that the two of us had written last year called...
Why Hire a Facilitator? Four Good Reasons and a Bad One
I recently facilitated a mid-size gathering for a former colleague who is themselves a very skilled facilitator and convener of events. Objectively, they have just as many skills and capacities as I do to hold space for a group wanting to dig into strategy and to...
Strategy in Crisis: 5 questions to ask when your current strategy is ripped from under you.
“Not having a strategy is a strategy in itself…” This was something I used to say to leaders in my previous organization when they told me that things were too uncertain and unpredictable to put a strategy in place. Or that they needed to be responsive to what donors...
