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My guest today is Rebecca Sutherns. Rebecca is an insightful and high energy collaborative strategist. She is a world class facilitator who has served as a trusted advisor to hundreds of mission-driven organizations in Canada and internationally for more than 20 years. Rebecca is a skilled communicator, with a particular gift for helping leaders make wiser decisions faster. She specializes in facilitating strategic planning, stakeholder engagement, strong governance and effective teamwork, and is the author of Nimble: Off Script But Still On Track – a coaching guide for responsive facilitation and more recently Sightline: Strategic plans that gather momentum not dust.

Here’s what to expect during the episode:

• How can we plan at a time with COVID-19 around? Planning doesn’t only have to occur when you know what’s going to happen.
• What does collaborative planning entail? How can it benefit a nonprofit?
• In a nonprofit setting, who collaborates with who?
• The factors to consider when designing a planning process. Understand the output you want, why it matters, who you need to get it, and how to make everything come together.
• There’s no need to have entirely-fixed plans! Organizations need to be structured and flexible at the same time.

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You can see Rebecca on her website https://rebeccasutherns.com/

Her LinkedIn is at https://www.linkedin.com/in/rebeccasutherns/ and her Twitter is https://twitter.com/RebeccaSutherns

Check out these resources mentioned in the episode!

Nimble: Off Script But Still On Track

https://www.amazon.com/Nimble-Coaching-Guide-Responsive-Facilitation/dp/1999576101

What The Hell Do We Do Now?: An enterprise guide to COVID-19 and beyond

https://www.amazon.com/What-Hell-Do-Now-enterprise-ebook/dp/B08JCFY1KH

Get Mary’s free guide: How to Engage Your Board in Fundraising, by going to https://hilandconsulting.org/boardfundraising

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