Finding the right people for your organization and then keeping them engaged is your number one priority. Using Emotional Intelligence tools can help you recruit and retain your most valuable resource. This session will discuss key elements of EQ and how they apply to your culture, your recruiting efforts and engagement strategy. We will explore how to use EQ tools to evaluate current staff, potential staff and create developmental opportunities that uplift your organization’s culture.
Mary Ann Little
Mary Ann, an accomplished Senior Executive with an extensive background in business – large, small, global and domestic – startup and mature, is the CEO of –Peak To Peak Business Strategies, LLC and is a certified coach. Her company specializes in Business Coaching using proven methodologies coupled with experiences from her vast career. Based in Denver, Colorado, Mary Ann serves the US and International countries offering clients ways to work smarter, not harder. Mary Ann is an executive coach, trainer and advisor backed by more than 36 years of executive leadership, international business development, operations, customer excellence, product management, team management and sales leadership.
She began her career in the high- tech industry as an Account Manager for AT&T and was rapidly promoted to Executive Briefer with the AT&T Global Briefing Program. In 1991 she was promoted to General Manager with AT&T Computer Systems managing a multi-state sales region. The next step was the National Sales Director for AT&T Video Technology program. Mary Ann moved to New Jersey to become the Executive Chief of Staff with an officer with AT&T Headquarters. During the launch of Lucent Technologies, Mary Ann served in 4 marketing assignments to extend the brand in the global marketplace building the Executive Briefing Program, Consultant and Analyst Program, Trade Show & Exhibits, and Client/CEO/Business Partner Global Events.
In 1999, Mary Ann was promoted again to Vice President/General Manager for an AT&T/Avaya business partner – Expanets – where she built a $100M business spanning 8 states. Upon the merger of Expanets to Avaya, Mary Ann led the sales transition and then became the Vice President for Services at Avaya. Inside this role Mary Ann built 26 Technical Centers of Excellence to support Avaya’s largest Fortune 100 clients on a global basis. With over 1500 engineers, Mary Ann established platforms for technical support in 16 languages. Also with Avaya, Mary Ann took on the role as Vice President for Channels and developed channel/distribution programs for the services portfolio.
Upon leaving Avaya, Mary Ann was promoted again to Vice President Portfolio Management for Bank of America where she built the product management function for Information Services and managed a $1.5B contracts portfolio.
In 2015, Mary Ann opened her own company – Peak to Peak Business Strategies – providing executive & business coaching and business consulting. She enjoys speaking, teaching, coaching and consulting for clients on a global basis. Her specialties include Strategic Planning, Leadership Development, Growth Strategies and Team Building.
Mary Ann graduated with a Bachelors Degree in Business Administration with an Emphasis in Management from the University of Northern Colorado. She also attended The Executive Marketing Program at Columbia through her work at AT&T and Lucent Technologies. She is trained in Change Management and LEAN through her work in Lucent and Avaya.
Rebecca Toll, MNM
Rebecca has demonstrated success applying a diverse set of practices that include collaborative governance, systems change, collective impact, authentic community engagement, building community leadership capacity, as well as understanding and deploying social innovation practices. Rebecca utilizes human-centered design thinking, emergent strategy, root cause analysis, and deliberative dialogue techniques in her work. These practices facilitate effective decision-making and trust building while increasing awareness and reducing barriers that ensure access to build will and ignite action. Specific projects include the co-creation of the Anti-Racist Change Lab (ARCL) developed in partnership with Colorado State University’s School of Social Work. The ARCL a participatory experience for individuals to dismantle bias, increase awareness, and move toward collective action as it relates to racialized oppression within their communities. These practices are also applied to her work with numerous schools and districts across Colorado in an effort to cultivate transformational change for school climate and student voice.
It’s so important to get hiring right, especially in times when the hiring market is competitive. Your nonprofit is a great place to work and you need to make sure your potential employees know it! In this session we will update your job descriptions to ensure they are accurate, have language that protects your organization, and, most importantly, sound exciting and enticing to qualified applicants. We will build on your job descriptions to develop thoughtful, structured interviews that are designed to help your applicants demonstrate their talents to you while filtering for unconscious bias on the part of the interviewers. From there, we’ll discuss effective onboarding strategies that ensure your new hires are set up to succeed. Finally, we’ll explore strategies for employee retention that go beyond on-tap craft beer and ping-pong tables.
RB Fast, CEO, Fast Impact.
RB Fast is an experienced nonprofit leadership coach and operations expert. She’s adept at helping leaders take an honest self-inventory and move towards people first leadership while ensuring their own well-being. She has a long history of getting results for nonprofits. If she’s not in her office working with nonprofit leaders, you can probably find her in the garden.
Session 1– Human Resource & Compliance Top Trends: leverage your current organizational offerings to improve the recruitment and retainment of top talent
Presenters: Hayley Klein and Meg Gilland- GNA Partners
Course Description:
In this interactive session we will give a general human resource and compliance update for the Colorado nonprofit community. Share how company compliant strategies such as PTO and benefits translate to better recruiting and retaining of top talent, we will also take time to answer HR compliance and benefits related questions that are top of mind!
Session 2-Managing and Leading Effectively
Presenter: Kim Stewart- Athena Coaching and Consulting
Course Description:
Being a good supervisor is not something that just happens. It requires intentionality, skills development, and practice. Many people are put into a supervisory role and given no more than a list of their director reports. With today’s employment climate and the need to attract and retain staff, we need to do better. This course will outline the basics of leading, managing, and holding staff accountable.
Session 3- Hiring with Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Mind
Presenter: Monica Williams- The Equity Project
Course Description:
In this 60-minute session, Monica Williams, Chief Consultant Officer at The Equity Project, will discuss how attracting, recruiting, and retaining diverse talent requires organizations to looks inwards, and better understand how their policies, practices, and decision-making may be impacting both who is applying and who is staying. Utilizing her own experiences leading DEI initiatives over the last decade in organizations such as Denver International Airport and CenturyLink, Monica will offer best practices in the field, and share tools and resources that leaders and hiring managers can implement in their recruitment efforts.
This workshop sets aside the misnomer of the term Grant Writing and explores the planning, creative analysis, and strategic positioning necessary to craft, and yes, write, successful proposals and applications to foundations. We will look at best practices in program planning, prospect research, application preparation, communication, and budgeting to maximize your success in securing foundation grants. These concepts may also be applied to all aspects of fundraising, from government grant seeking to direct mail. The workshop is designed for professionals and volunteers, whether new to the field or with several years of experience!
Ann Werner, Nonprofit Grants Management Consultant, c3grants.
Communicating without a purpose is like speaking into the void, but a communications plan built with intention can help you achieve your goals. Communications experts Cori Streetman and Sarah Hogan from Barefoot PR will walk you through the process of building a tactical communications plan to connect with and influence your target audiences all while keeping in mind the staff resources and budget you have to get the job done.
Barefoot PR
How can you stand out at work, have a greater impact, and focus on what energizes you the most? Knowing and leveraging your strengths can help you accomplish all of these outcomes. But strengths can be challenging to identify because many of our workplaces focus on improving our weaknesses. In this workshop, we’ll help you identify your edge by taking the StandOut Assessment. We will talk about ways to manage your weaknesses and explore tips to engage with others so that your team and peers can benefit from a strengths-based mindset.
Bonnie Davis, Founding Partner and Keynote Speaker at HuWork
Session 1-A=Acquiring. We’ll explore tried and true ideas for getting ready for effective board recruitment, recruitment requirements and ideas, where to find board members, the process and tools of an effective nominating committee, new board member orientation, and much more.
Session 2- B=Building and Managing. If you’ve worked hard to recruit the best board members, you must manage the board effectively to keep them engaged and involved. In this session, we’ll discuss best practices in board operations and management including tips for holding effective meetings, committee structures, planning, and basic board roles and responsibilities.
Session 3- C = Celebrating and Rewarding. Think about this: “You Get What You Accept and What You Reward!” The last session will share more best practices and ideas for managing and rewarding those best board members. We’ll also look back at the first two sessions and recap what we’ve discussed and the highlights of the first two sessions.
Jean Block, Jean Block Consulting
In the first session– participants will Assess your organization’s inherent cyber risk today! Attend our cyber risk training and complete a cyber risk assessment – all included in a two-part training. We will provide you with the expertise and tools to perform a comprehensive risk assessment with your team. The sessions will educate you on the challenges of risk management faced by nonprofits and best practices to overcome those challenges.
Gyan-i have built TitanDef, a cloud-based cyber security risk management platform designed to perform cyber risk evaluation report to understand your overall exposure. All training participants will receive a free trial to TitanDef. During our first training session, we will use TitanDef to answer basic questions about your organization such as the data you collect, and how your organization uses technology.
In the second session, we will walk you through a well-defined cyber assessment using TitanDef. The outcome is to provide you with a real-time report on your organization’s cyber-attack surface, data loss risks, cyber risk appetites, and technology-induced threats. Based on your organization’s cyber risk scale, the TitanDef algorithm will recommend a customized set of safeguards (controls) to protect your organization from common threats. As a capstone to the training, you will have the opportunity to measure your organization’s progress against the recommended safeguards, prioritize your efforts using risk assessments and develop a plan of action to make your organization secure in the eminent future.
Join us and get secure!
Gyan-i
Gyan-i, Inc. is a home-grown Colorado proud strategic cyber security advisory, consulting, and managed services firm. We collectively advise clients from various industries, such as legal, health, financial, and nonprofits, with $3.5 billion+ in AUM. We take pride in providing exceptional cyber security preparedness to each of our clients based on their strategic and operational needs. No matter their size, we have created a unique partnership with each client.
We all know that program evaluation is important. We also know that you can’t do it in a vacuum. If you don’t engage stakeholders, the quality of your work will be lower. Nor will you get the attention you deserve for all your hard work. You’ll also lose the opportunity to receive support for your program. Unfortunately, many people who work in nonprofits either forget to involve stakeholders, or don’t know how. Or they have the sneaking sense that they should, but neglect making it a top priority, and that eventually bites them in the you-know-what. This hands-on interactive session will help you identify your stakeholders, think in new and different ways of involving them in the steps of evaluation, and brainstorm hiccups and obstacles (and how to get over or around them). Participants will come away with motivation, knowledge and tools for involving stakeholders which will make their evaluation path smoother and attract more support for their programs.
Maggie Miller, Maggie Miller Coaching and Consulting