Tuesday 2:00 - 3:00 PM | Session Details

Conversations with Purpose • Liz Mayfield | More & Enough - a partner of Leadership Unlimited, NE  -  301 A

From the boardroom to our backyard, important conversations are taking place. Are you prepared? This workshop will focus on ways to enter and lead conversations with purpose. Attendees will be equipped with the tools to navigate difficult conversations, cultivate courage, build better relationships, and create a more positive environment. We'll cover how to handle challenging conversations with grace and clarity, lead meetings more effectively, and how to foster an atmosphere of mutual respect.

About the Speaker: 
Liz Mayfield is the owner of M & E and a full-time executive director of a human service nonprofit in Grand Island, Nebraska. She has her Bachelor's degree in Organizational Communication and her Master's of Public Administration and Nonprofit Management from the University of Nebraska at Omaha. During the global pandemic, she launched More & Enough, a community for women in leadership to connect and learn.

From Us vs. Them to We ALL Belong • Lucy Hancock  | Civity -  301 B

Presented by Civity, a national nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting community leaders who want to create a welcoming culture, this workshop will help you build 'social muscle' in your community, cultivating relationships of respect, empathy, and trust across differences. Participants will take away actionable strategies that are grounded in cross-cutting social science research and can easily be incorporated into existing gatherings. The workshop will cover topics such as how to deepen conversations, how to establish authenticity through storytelling and active listening, and how to connect through difference.

About the Speaker: Lucy Hancock is an entrepreneur, a coach, and a trainer/facilitator for Civity. For over a decade, she has worked in the world of international higher education, where she fostered partnerships abroad, facilitated trainings for intercultural communication, and built relational bridges with global communities. 

Integral Approaches to Latino Leadership Development • Angela Mictlanxochitl Anderson | LIDERAMOS, TX -  301 C

Latino leadership development at the community level is a fertile ground for leadership pedagogies and growth possibilities. This workshop reviews the roots and influences of Latino leadership from community, family, and cultural pedagogies. The leadership testimonios of brave leadership arising from Uvalde, Texas and Colorado Springs, Colorado, and more. This workshop will review how the LIDERAMOS Latino Leadership Development model's five Core Elements are integral to providing a well-rounded foundation for learning. We encourage this approach for an intensive, interactive, and culturally relevant experience that enables Latinos to deepen and expand their leadership competencies. The workshop will discuss how understanding learning pedagogies is a strategy to create flexibility to accommodate the existing multiversity of Latino communities.

About the Speaker: Angela Mictlanxochitl Anderson Guerrero, Ph.D., MPP, is the Executive Director of LIDERAMOS, a National Latino leadership development organization. She is a contemporary healer holding and guiding strategic change built-in self-worth to regenerate radical compassion for a new world of equity, sustainability, and wonder. With over 25 years of experience in community engagement and leading organizations, she strives to be a leader in these times of survival. She completed her doctorate in transpersonal psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies. She serves as a council member of Danza de la Huitzilmeztli and Danza de Luna Xinachtli Meztli, both trans territorial Mexica ceremonial practices.     

Leading on Purpose: Developing a Nonprofit Board of Directors Training Program • Mark Hollander | Vision St. Charles County Leadership, MO -  301 D

In response to a demonstrated need among nonprofit organizations in the fastest growing county in Missouri and as a means to get Vision St. Charles County Leadership "graduates" and alumni engaged in the service community, 'Leading on Purpose' was formed in 2023. Designed as a "win-win" nonprofit board of directors governance training program that ultimately equips those with the passion for serving and the knowledge to do so, the program was hugely successful in its inaugural offering. Through a highly participatory session with many examples and idea generation, participants will learn how to create a programmatic response based on assessing community needs, benchmarking, curricular development and execution, and outcome measurement.

About the Speaker: Mark Hollander grew up in St. Charles, Missouri - just west of St. Louis - and spent his entire banking career in the St. Louis Metropolitan area. After a 35-year retail and commercial banking career, Mark retired but still wanted to remain active in the community. Vision St. Charles County Leadership approached him and asked him to serve as the organization's first executive director! Vision Leadership started in 1998 and had been a 100% volunteer organization, but they realized that they would only realize their desired growth with someone at the helm on a full-time basis. Mark is a 2012 graduate of the Vision Leadership Program and had served as a board member for a few years. It was an easy decision for him to help work within an organization he loved and stay active in his hometown community. Mark is a 5th-generation St. Charles City resident, and his heart has always been to serve this community.

Smart Strategies Creating Compelling Emails  • Abby Jarvis | NeonOne -  301 E

48% of people cite email as their preferred communication channel, including your program alumni and stakeholders. But nonprofit-specific email benchmarks have historically been hard to come by, making it difficult to evaluate your own performance. Not anymore! New email data from Neon One reveals exciting new benchmarks, insights, and best practices to help you reach your community. 

About the Speaker:  Abby Jarvis is a writer, marketer, and speaker at Neon One, and she’s passionate about giving nonprofits the tools they need to connect with their supporters. Her ten years in the nonprofit technology industry have been dedicated to understanding how and why donors support their favorite causes, studying donor trends and behavior, and sharing data-backed best practices nonprofits can use to build successful fundraising programs.