Schedule
overview
Detailed
schedule
SCHEDULE
OVERVIEW
MONDAY, JUNE 9
12:30
p.m. Registration Opens (lunch before the conference
on Monday is on your own)
1:30
– 4:30 p.m. Intergenerational
Leadership Experience
4:30
p.m. Opening Reception
5:30
p.m. Happy Hour with the Twin
Cities Young Nonprofit Professionals Network, all ages
welcome!
TUESDAY, JUNE 10
7:45
a.m. Registration Opens
8:30
– 9:30 a.m. Morning Plenary – The Future
of Leadership
9:45
– 11 a.m. Breakouts – Traditional and Affinity Group
Networking:
Your Success Depends How You Do It
Self Awareness: A Critical Skill for Leadership
Success
Influencing Strategies for Leaders
in the Middle
Intergenerational Leadership
and Talent Development in the Nonprofit Sector: A Tale
of Two Latino Leaders
Engaging Young Leaders in Your Organization
Sustainable Leadership Principles:
Practical Ways to Creating Your Organizational Future
and Legacy
Bridging Theory and Practice in Governance
Generation X Affinity Group Conversation
11:15
a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Breakouts – Traditional and Affinity Group
Moving
Leadership to the Center of Our Lives: Discovering Our
Personal Call to Leadership
Mastering
the Organizational Crisis
Multi-Sector
Board Diversity – Challenge and Opportunity
Working
Inclusively: An Essential Component of Multicultural Leadership
Development
Financial
Issues for Emerging Leaders
Helping
a Board Decide to Seek an Organizational Merger…with Consensus
Baby
Boomers Affinity Group Conversation
12:45
– 2 p.m. Networking Lunch
Strengthen
your professional relationships with your colleagues over
a networking lunch.
2:15
– 3:30 p.m. Breakouts – Traditional and Affinity Group
How
to Keep the Fire without Burning Out
Nonprofit Leadership Skills: Maximize
Results through Volunteers
Creating Your Future in Nonprofit Leadership
Keeping it Fresh: The Life and Times
of the Mid-Careerist
Navigating Through A Leadership
Change
Leveraging Your Leadership: Participation
in Other Civic Organizations
Supporting New Executive Directors
for Success
Gen Y Affinity Group Conversation
3:45
– 4:15 p.m. Call to Action
This
Call to Action is an opportunity for you to summarize discoveries
from the Summit, and walk away with inspiration to actualize
them.
DETAILED
SCHEDULE
MONDAY,
JUNE 9
12:30
p.m. Registration Opens (lunch before the conference
on Monday is on your own)
1:30
– 4:30 p.m. Intergenerational Leadership Experience
Leading
Across Generations: Working Together for the Future of Nonprofits
Intergenerational issues are a defining element of today’s
nonprofit workplace. Up to four generations may be working
together, often without an understanding of their different
experiences and values. The leadership choice is how we,
as nonprofit organizations and individuals, understand and
address intergenerational issues. How will the sector handle
leadership transitions as Baby Boomers retire (or don’t
retire)? How are mid-level managers being groomed (or not
groomed) for leadership positions? And how can younger leaders
be retained in the sector?
During
our opening session, we’ll hear from established author,
practitioner and academic Frances
Kunreuther, director of Building
Movement Project, as she outlines current and emerging
trends related to intergenerational workplace issues in
the nonprofit sector. Rosetta
Thurman, blogger, principal of Thurman
Consulting and director of development and finance at
The Nonprofit
Roundtable of Greater Washington, will present issues
from an emerging practitioner perspective.
Participants
will then be engaged to help craft and define their own
experiences with intergenerational leadership. Through interactive
facilitated discussion, you will be asked to share your
reality and build knowledge by co-creating current realities
and workable solutions to intergenerational leadership challenges.
Since nonprofit leadership is constantly emerging, this
is an opportunity for you to deepen your understanding and
inform the field, while strengthening your own leadership
networks.
After
this engaging experience, we invite you to relax, network
and further the conversation during the opening reception
of the summit to be held in Memorial Hall.
4:30
p.m. Opening Reception
Join
us for an opening reception in the McNamara Alumni Center’s
Memorial Hall!
5:30
p.m. Happy
Hour with the Twin Cities Young Nonprofit Professionals
Network, all ages welcome!
The Twin
Cities Young Nonprofit Professionals Network (TCYNPN)
invites all people of all ages for informal networking at
their June Happy Hour gathering. The happy hour takes place
at Stub & Herbs bar at the University of Minnesota,
very close to the conference site. This is a free event
(although drinks and food are on your own), no reservations
necessary! Even if you are not registered to attend the
Leadership Summit, you are welcome to come to this happy
hour - everyone admitted on a first come, first served basis.
TCYNPN hopes to see you there! See
TCYNPN for more information.
TUESDAY,
JUNE 10
7:45
a.m. Registration Opens
8:30
– 9:30 a.m. Morning Plenary – The Future of Leadership
What
the future holds for nonprofit leaders of all kinds is unknown.
We do know that the future will be more diverse – culturally,
ethnically, and generationally, to name just a few. It will
also be shaped by unique fiscal and environmental constraints.
The future will see the continuation of the collapse of
traditional print media and the decline of professional
journalism as well as the increase in grassroots, interactive,
online media engagement. What do these changes mean for
the nonprofit sector? What challenges and opportunities
lie ahead? What will future leaders look like, what attributes
will they (we!) need, and where will nonprofit leadership
fit in overall in society?
Join
us for this cutting edge morning panel session to explore
how the world is changing, what kinds of leadership attributes
are needed, and where nonprofit leaders fit in. The session
will include comments from our panelists who represent diverse
leadership perspectives, as well as an opportunity for dialogue
with the audience.
Panelists:
Jeanne Bell – executive
director, CompassPoint
Nonprofit Services
Sean Kershaw – executive
director, Citizens
League
Ruth McCambridge
(moderator) – editor-in-chief, Nonprofit
Quarterly
Ron McKinley – project
director, Kellogg Action Lab, Fieldstone
Alliance
Mai Moua – principal,
Leadership
Paradigms
9:45
– 11 a.m. Breakouts – Traditional and Affinity Group
Networking:
Your Success Depends How You Do It
Technical knowledge and skills will help you gain entry
into the nonprofit sector, but networks and social skills
are critical to advancing. If you want to advance, you need
to develop a network using social skills, and intentionally
get into networks that help you achieve your career goals.
It is through networking that you get access to new knowledge
and new opportunities. As your networking status grows,
learn how to get help and give help to others through networking
reciprocity, and learn to build your networks to your benefit
into the future.
Cathy Gustafson,
director, master's degree in nonprofit management, Hamline
University, Graduate School of Management
Self
Awareness: A Critical Skill for Leadership Success
Organizational leaders wear many hats, handling multifaceted
relationships with direct reports, boards of directors,
funders and partner organizations, as well as anticipating
and managing constantly shifting priorities. If we don't
know ourselves, we don't have choices about our reactions
and interactions, which in turn impact the results we want
for ourselves and the work we do. Our emotions drive our
behavior and behavior drives outcomes. Learning how to be
more aware of our own emotional states, and knowing how
to manage these feelings, enables us to develop more positive
relationships, handle stress better, and tap into our own
wisdom and creativity. Participants in this workshop will
understand the costs and benefits of self awareness, begin
to know their own emotional triggers, and learn some basic
tools to increase effectiveness.
Jean Hammink, principal,
insideoutcomes
Influencing
Strategies for Leaders in the Middle
Regardless of how steep or flat a given hierarchy may be
within your nonprofit organization, it is normal for middle
managers and leaders to feel estranged, from time-to-time,
relative to those either above or below them on the organization
chart. Using Barry Oshry’s template, we will look at the
realities associated with occupying a leadership position
in the middle space and identify strategies for integrating
other middle-space leaders in the organization. In addition,
you will experience a powerful peer coaching process to
support your work today and maximize your change efforts
tomorrow.
Barbara Tuckner,
principal, Tuckner Consulting, Inc.
Intergenerational
Leadership and Talent Development in the Nonprofit Sector:
A Tale of Two Latino Leaders
This session’s presenters have much to share (from two generational
vantage points) about developing leadership capacity within
communities of color to strengthen the nonprofit sector
and, ultimately, impact social change that is reflective
of cultural community values and assets. Attend this session
to understand leadership capacity-building techniques, learn
how leaders from different generations can navigate the
foundation and nonprofit world to expand social change opportunities,
and develop a framework for intergenerational, multicultural
leadership development for your organization and for the
sector.
Jennifer Godinez,
associate director, Minnesota Minority Education Partnership
and Carlos Mariani, executive
director, Minnesota Minority Education Partnership and representative,
Minnesota House District 65B
Engaging
Young Leaders in Your Organization
Are you looking to engage young leaders in volunteer leadership
roles in your organization? Are you looking to bring a new
perspective to the way your organization reaches out to
its core stakeholders and clients? This session, hosted
by members of The LEAD Project, will offer practical tips
for effectively connecting with and engaging young leaders
in volunteer leadership roles, insights on the kinds of
skills young leaders can bring to your organization and
case studies/success stories about the lasting impact young
leaders can have in an organization. Participants will walk
away with specific examples of how you can effectively engage
young professionals in your organization.
Hudie
Broughton, member engagement director, LEAD Project,
James
Delaney, board member, The LEAD Project and vice president
and relationship manager, Institutional Health Savings Account
group, U.S. Bank; Matt Hemsley,
president, The LEAD Project and consultant, McKinsey &
Company; Uri Neren, board
member, The LEAD Project and founder, ZN Consulting; Jessie
Ostlund, public relations director, The LEAD Project
and senior account executive, Himle Horner, Inc.
Sustainable
Leadership Principles: Practical Ways to Creating Your Organizational
Future and Legacy
Nonprofits, whether big or small, national or local, are
required to think about the global impact of their work.
Sustainability is not just about succession planning and
organizational transitions; it’s about leading with purpose
towards an outcome that is intended to nurture, support
and sustain economic, social, and environmental systems.
Sustainable leadership principles help leaders to think
about engaging a broader and diverse community; one that
empowers a diverse stakeholder group to take responsibility
for creating and implementing a sustainable world. This
session focuses on the key principles of sustainable leadership
and how they can be used in practical ways to creating your
organization’s future and legacy.
Mai Moua, president/CEO,
Leadership Paradigms, Inc.
Bridging
Theory and Practice in Governance
One
of the most important things that we understand from both
theory and practice is that governance in nonprofits is
incredibly varied. What boards responsibly do depends on
many factors such as the size of the nonprofit, its stage
of development, funding sources, and relationships with
top management. People who sit on boards and executives
who work with boards understand how complex governance can
be, as well as how quickly governance roles and responsibilities
can change. During this session, you will learn a summary
of important research findings related to effective governance,
and then discuss ways these findings can be translated into
practice.
Jon Pratt, executive
director, Minnesota Council of Nonprofits and Melissa
Stone, professor, Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs
Generation
X Affinity Group Conversation
During this conversational affinity group session, you will
have the opportunity to share leadership issues and challenges
with your Generation X peers. Come prepared to listen, share
and learn!
Led by Jodi Sandfort,
associate professor, Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs
and Gen X Leader and Bao Vang,
leadership program coordinator, Minnesota Council of Nonprofits
and Gen X Leader
11:15
a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Breakouts – Traditional and Affinity Group
Moving
Leadership to the Center of Our Lives: Discovering Our Personal
Call to Leadership
To be an effective leader, one must find a way to move our
deepest passion to the center of our lives, to daily practice.
By joining with others, and by listening to others on a
similar path toward the common good, we develop our own
leadership. In this session participants will explore the
nature of leadership. The session will include a brief presentation
about leadership based partly on the works of well known
leadership theorists. Attendees will be asked to think about
their own core commitments, how they live those out, and
share their stories of what inspires and motivates them.
Jeff Corn, community
program coordinator, Center for Urban and Regional Affairs
and Gary DeCramer, senior
lecturer, Master of Public Affairs Program, Humphrey Institute
of Public Affairs
Mastering
the Organizational Crisis
It happens to organizations large and small: a crisis that
shakes the faith of the staff, board of directors and perhaps
even donors. The new bookkeeper uncovers embezzlement. A
youth minister is arrested for soliciting a minor. You get
the idea. This interactive session will explore three key
ideas that can help organizations not only survive, but
even triumph in the chaos. While the session's focus is
on managing crisis, you'll find some help in managing the
small fires too. In this session, attendees will learn to
focus on what matters most during an organizational crisis,
how to use legal representation, and how to communicate
internally to restore confidence during, and after, the
ordeal.
Renee McGivern,
owner, Spark Plug Consulting and Heidi
Neff Christianson, partner, Moore, Costello & Hart
P.L.L.P.
Multi-Sector
Board Diversity – Challenge and Opportunity
The power of mixing up public, nonprofit and private sector
board directors to govern an organization is invaluable;
it can also be a headache. How directors are taught about
unique characteristics of an organization, how each director’s
acumen is understood and utilized by staff and how the collective
board integrates with one another to achieve common goals
is both science and art. This session will explore obstacles
and opportunities in creating and utilizing multi-sector
diversity among directors. Participants will gain an understanding
of how boards with directors from multiple sectors can achieve
successful organizational oversight as planned and needed.
Jay Kiedrowski,
co-director, Center for Integrative Leadership, University
of Minnesota and senior fellow, Center for Public and Nonprofit
Leadership, Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs; and Anna
K. Lloyd, executive director, Center for Integrative
Leadership, University of Minnesota
Working
Inclusively: An Essential Component of Multicultural Leadership
Development
In an increasingly multicultural society, it is necessary
to provide a multicultural approach to leadership development
so that all levels of institutions reflect and respond to
all sectors of the community. In this session, participants
will experience firsthand the methodology which Wilder Center
for Communities uses to develop and nurture multicultural
leaders of all ages and experience. Current and former program
participants will share why the concept of working inclusively
is such an important aspect of their program experience
and plays a pivotal role in their development. You will
leave this session with an increased understanding of how
to effectively engage diverse groups and people in leadership
development.
Damon Shoholm, leadership
consultant, and Nou Yang, leadership consultant, Amherst
H. Wilder Foundation
Financial
Issues for Emerging Leaders
As you develop your leadership role at a nonprofit, how
do financial issues fit in? Whether or not you have a financial
management position or responsibilities, emerging leaders
can influence the organization’s financial health and future.
Every leader has a responsibility to participate in sound
planning, prudently manage budgets and resources, and ask
important, tough questions. In this session we will review
twelve “golden rules” of financial management - including
proven practices, nonprofit myths, and innovative ideas
- that will help you converse with financial managers and
board members, build your understanding, and gain confidence
as a financial leader.
Kate Barr, executive
director, Nonprofits Assistance Fund
Helping
a Board Decide to Seek an Organizational Merger…with Consensus
Rainbow Families is a 13 year old Minnesota nonprofit that
recently announced a merger with Family Equality Council
of Boston. When the executive director resigned in April
2007, it was with a strong recommendation that the board
of directors consider a merger as perhaps the best way to
ensure long-term sustainability. Initially, the board was
divided on the best way to move forward. The board elected
to engage in an executive transition management process
which included an operational assessment, a membership survey,
a board retreat, and parallel board committee work. This
workshop will share information about how board members
can have a process which allows weighting of multiple options
while divergent views are aired, and share nine Turning
Points to help a board of directors reach consensus about
exploring a merger.
Mark French, board
chair; Abby Riskin, assistant
director; Laura Smidzik,
former executive director; and Vicki
Wunsch, chair merger committee, Rainbow Families; and
Linda Tacke, president,
Leadership Tactics, Inc.
Baby
Boomers Affinity Group Conversation
During this conversational affinity group session, you will
have the opportunity to share leadership issues and challenges
with your Baby Boomer peers. Come prepared to listen, share
and learn!
Led by Ron McKinley,
project director, Kellogg Action Lab, Fieldstone Alliance
and Baby Boomer Leader
12:45
– 2 p.m. Networking Lunch
Strengthen
your professional relationships with your colleagues over
a networking lunch.
2:15
– 3:30 p.m. Breakouts – Traditional and Affinity Group
How
to Keep the Fire without Burning Out
What do you do when passion for your work seems to be fading?
How do you remain focused in times of change and uncertainty?
When do the costs of staying exceed the benefits of leaving?
In this session you will learn how clarity of purpose and
the core values you want your work to exemplify leads to
authentic leadership. We will explore how the alignment
of purpose and values renews, reenergizes, increases effectiveness
and leads to a greater sense of fulfillment. By attending
this session, you will also be able to spot burnout, learn
key elements of renewal, and identify steps needed to move
toward and sustain renewal.
Kate Kelsch, leadership
consultant, Neighborhood Leadership Program and Paul
Robinson, senior leadership consultant, James P. Shannon
Leadership Institute
Nonprofit
Leadership Skills: Maximize Results through Volunteers
Why do some nonprofit organizations thrive with active community
support and energized volunteers while others struggle to
gain community engagement and support? Research by Betty
Stallings has identified 12 key leadership skills and actions
of leaders whose organizations are successful in utilizing
civic engagement to advance their mission. Through small
group work and presentation, participants will explore the
value volunteers bring to organizations, and learn to expand
their organization’s capacity utilizing volunteers.
Zeeda Magnuson,
associate director, Hands On Twin Cities and Terry
Straub, program coordinator – Hennepin County Master
Gardeners, University of Minnesota Extension
Creating
Your Future in Nonprofit Leadership
This workshop is an opportunity for you to capture
and create insights and discoveries from the Summit, and
inspire bold strategies and possibilities to actualize them.
Through individual reflection, one-on-one and small group
activities, you will craft a bold future in your nonprofit
leadership journey. This session is for attendees who want
to imagine and capture new possibilities for leadership
practices for yourself and your organization. You will walk
away with new personal strategies to implement at work,
as well as new personal contacts to follow up with to hold
you accountable to these new strategies.
MacArthur Antigua,
principal, Massive Creativity
Keeping
it Fresh: The Life and Times of the Mid-Careerist
While articles and publications have focused on the differences
between emerging leaders and seasoned or retiring leaders,
little attention has been paid to those at mid-career who
are neither new nor planning for retirement. Mid-careerists
have expressed feelings of frustration with career plateaus;
uncertainty about taking on directorships; and desires for
greater work-life balance, challenge and career growth opportunities.
This session will present data from a recent survey of nonprofit
arts administrators that shows both the passion that many
maintain for their work and the aggravation they experience
with the shortcomings of the nonprofit sector’s approaches
towards talent management. Come learn the facts you can
use to make the case for mid-career support as well as recommendations
on how organizations can provide support to your mid-careerists.
Victoria Jean Saunders,
arts management consultant, Victoria j Saunders Consulting
Navigating
Through A Leadership Change
Leadership transition is an inevitable part of every nonprofit.
Through an interactive presentation, participants will listen
to and join in on a conversation on how boards, executive
directors and staff can navigate their organization's next
leadership transition. Being prepared and aware of what
to expect can make the difference between a transition that
burns out staff and board and slows the organization, and
one that creates opportunities for growth and positive change.
Attend this session to learn about elements and stages of
a leadership transition, understand strategies and ideas
on how to navigate a transition, and walk away with the
ability to create a succession plan for your organization.
Roger Meyer, president,
Roger Meyer Consulting, Inc.
Leveraging
Your Leadership: Participation in Other Civic Organizations
Many nonprofit staff and board members are experts in what
they do – but they don’t necessarily share their experience
and expertise outside their core supporters. Participating
as a community leader in other settings - civic boards or
commissions, state agency boards or even other nonprofit
boards - can increase the visibility of nonprofit organizations
and their leaders. Involvement in other civic organizations
helps you achieve your organizational mission as you become
a “go-to” community leader, interacting with civic and community
leadership in new ways. Discover the benefits of participating
in agencies, boards, commissions, and other nonprofits (including
elected positions), information about open service opportunities,
how to apply for these positions, and how to be successful
in obtaining competitive leadership positions in your community.
Steve Boland, executive
director, Greater Frogtown Community Corporation; Kris
Fredson, deputy chief of staff, Office of Saint Paul
Mayor Chris Coleman; Charlie
Oakes, executive director, West Central Industries;
Anita Patel, racial justice
and public policy manager, YWCA of Minneapolis; and Mark
Ritchie, Minnesota Secretary of State
Supporting
New Executive Directors for Success
We know that successful executive transition is of urgent
and increasing importance to nonprofits. What can we do
in that critical first year of a new executive director’s
tenure to ensure that he or she stays, thrives, and in turn
leads his or her organization and its networks toward ever
more meaningful impact in the community? This session is
for current and prospective executives, board members, and
staff interested in successful executive director first
year transitions. Participants in this session will work
together with facilitators experienced in the leadership
journey to draw upon each other's ideas and collective wisdom
in a "World Cafe" forum designed to yield strategies
for supporting, bolstering, and enriching that all-important
first year.
Jane Brown, consultant
and former executive director of Second Harvest Heartland;
Christine Hammes, director,
strategic development services, MAP for Nonprofits; Ernie
Johnson, executive director, Sabathani Community Center;
and Mai Moua, president,
Leadership Paradigms
Gen
Y Affinity Group Conversation
During this conversational affinity group session, you will
have the opportunity to share leadership issues and challenges
with your Gen Y peers. Come prepared to listen, share and
learn!
Led by Nicole Garst,
program coordinator, Minnesota Council of Nonprofits and
Gen Y Leader; Justin Johnson,
Minnesota AIDS Project and Gen Y Leader; and Nicole
Weiler, program coordinator, St. Stephens Human Services
and Gen Y Leader
3:45
– 4:15 p.m. Call to Action
This
Call to Action is an opportunity for you to summarize discoveries
from the Summit, and walk away with inspiration to actualize
them.
