Leadership Matters

Throughout the month of October, join in on the conversation to share your tips and gain insight on Translating the Complex; Creating Understanding and Buy-in When Leading Change. In Part 2 of this series, we will be discussing actions today’s leaders can take to navigate effectively through constantly evolving environments. Solutions on leading change through potential chaos in a matter that fosters support and commitment from stakeholders will be examined. As we explore major areas that form the foundation of an organization’s capacity, we address the role diverse policy bodies and policy development play in creating opportunity and managing change. Join the conversation as we speak with Rudolph A. Johnson, III, President and CEO of Neighborhood House Association in San Diego, CA. Through the lens of his leadership experience and journey, he will share ways policy impacts and can guide organizations through complexity into an effective corporate strategy. Join the conversation by calling 866-472-5789 or ema

Managing change can be one of the most difficult leadership challenges to face. However, when the change effort is mandated by an external entity and the change impacts an entire system of care in a geographic area that encompasses several cities in two states, “challenging” becomes a bit of an understatement. Join our hosts John Jeanetta and Jenni Frumer, and their guests: Joanie Poore, Director of Homeless Services at Heartland Family Service and Rachel Olive, Director of Metro Home BASE, as they discuss their efforts to create a federally-mandated coordinated access system for people experiencing a housing crisis. Now completing six months of an initial pilot phase, this system, known as Metro Home BASE (Better Access to Services for Everyone) continues to evolve in partnership with numerous nonprofit, government, corporate and philanthropic partners in the Omaha/Council Bluffs Metropolitan Area.

Leadership often highlights formal as well informal mentoring initiatives. Our guests, Judith and Jack Rosenberg exude the characteristics of community leaders. Since their retirement, Jack has been a mentor in a Mentoring 4 Kids program and as creative board members of a nonprofit organization, they have also demonstrated initiative through their earlier volunteer involvement with the New York City Police Athletic League (PAL). Their volunteer work and the story of how they built their successful international business will inspire listeners. Join Jenni Frumer and co-host Dr. Sheryl Gee as we explore mentoring, leadership, initiative and the significance of personal generosity with our guests. The Rosenberg’s journey is thought-provoking with some unexpected twists, which has resulted in them being committed volunteers and highly engaged and compassionate contributors to the work of one human service nonprofit organization.

Are you interested in getting a mentor or becoming a mentor? Are you experiencing challenges as a mentee or mentor at work? Interested in learning more about mentoring and gaining valuable tips to get more from your mentoring relationship? Join Leadership Matters with co-hosts Linda Shoob, CEO/Consultant with Organization Effectiveness Consultants in San Diego and John Jeanetta, President and CEO of Heartland Family; and Associate Producer, Valerie Wright, Wright Ideas Unlimited in West Palm Beach, FL and their special guests Leslie Solomon, Director, Organization Development, Palomar Pomerado Hospital and Ann Scott-Hurst, Organization Effectiveness Specialist, Public Utilities Department, City of San Diego as they share insights for making the most of your mentoring relationship. This week, we will explore the design of mentoring program and the concept of peer mentoring/coaching. Join the conversation by calling 866-472-5789 or emailing LeadershipMatters@InnoVisions.org. That’s Wednesday, 2 PM/PST on Leader

The National Mentoring Partnership estimates 15 million youth are in need of a mentor. In 1991, Tom Osborne, who was then the head coach of the University of Nebraska football team, and his wife Nancy, took notice of this need and teamed up 25 middle school boys in the Lincoln Public Schools with 25 University of Nebraska football players. Of the original TeamMates, 22 stayed in the program with 20 graduating from high school and 18 continuing on to post-secondary education. Today, nearly a quarter-of-a-century later, there are 112 TeamMates chapters serving 6,500 youth in communities located across Iowa, Nebraska, and California. Join co-hosts John Jeanetta and Jenni Frumer as they discuss with their guest, Suzanne Hince, Executive Director of TeamMates, why mentoring is important and the impact it has on youth and adults.

Got challenges getting a mentor? Or, got challenges as a mentee or mentor cultivating and making the best of a mentoring relationship? Well struggle no more, tune in for valuable tips and solutions from Leadership Matters with host Dr. Sheryl Gee, Vice President of Training and Organization Development/InnoVisions with the Neighborhood House Association in San Diego, CA, co-host Linda Shoob, CEO/Consultant with Organization Effectiveness Consultants based in San Diego, CA, Valerie Wright , CEO of Wright Ideas Unlimited in West Palm Beach, FL, and special guest Antonio Cardona, Director of the Urban Institute for Service and Learning with Pillsbury United Communities in Minneapolis, MN. Join in on the conversation by calling 866-472-5789 or emailing LeadershipMatters@InnoVisions.org . That’s Wednesday, 2 PM/PST on Leadership Matters: Informing Leaders. Inspiring Solutions!

Join us in a lively discussion about leadership and transformation, when we introduce David Phillips, CEO of the Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County, FL, Co-hosts Jenni Frumer, John Jeanetta and their guest will explore leadership results, challenges and the role of vision in transforming and building community. During these uncertain times for public and nonprofit sectors, the development and engagement of volunteers, donors, communal service leaders and other stakeholders can be a complex, yet inspirational process.

In 2010, today’s guest, Greg Fripp, ended a very successful and lucrative career in business to launch a nonprofit organization that aligned with his passion for growing food and helping people. His new organization, called “Whispering Roots,” was subsequently launched with a mission of bringing healthy food, education and living wage employment to underserved communities by using “aquaponics.” Join us as we discuss with Greg why he decided to change careers and risk his life savings to start Whispering Roots, what “aquaponics” is and how it is helping underserved populations, how he created his vision for this unique agency and got others – donors, partnering agencies, and others – to buy in, and where he sees Whispering Roots going in the near and distant future.

Want to know how to become a more visionary and inspirational leader? Tune in to this month’s episodes of Leadership Matters. This Wednesday, August 7, Dr. Sheryl Gee, Vice President of Training and Organization Development with the Neighborhood House Association in San Diego, CA, co-host Linda Shoob, Partner/Senior Consultant with Organizational Effectiveness Consultants based in San Diego, CA, and Valerie Wright, CEO of Wright Ideas Unlimited in West Palm Beach Florida will kick-off a month long discussion on what it means, why it is important, and steps to take to become a visionary and inspirational leader. Next week, on August 14, co-host John Jeanetta, President and CEO of Heartland Family service will continue the dialogue with guest Greg Fripp, CEO of Whispering discussing “Leap of Faith; Starting a New Nonprofit.”

Need more funds, staff, facilities, and/or other resources than you current have budget to obtain? Tune into Leadership Matters with host Dr. Sheryl Gee, Vice President of Training and Organization Development/InnoVisions with the Neighborhood House Association in San Diego, CA; co-host Jenni Frumer, Associate Executive Director of Alpert Jewish Children & Family Services in West Palm Beach, Florida, special guest Michael Johnson, Chief Executive Officer of the Boys and Girls Club of Dane County, Madison, WI; and Outreach Director Valerie Wright, CEO of Wright Ideas Unlimited in West Palm Beach, Florida. Listen and/or join the conversation on successful ways in which nonprofit, government, and corporations are partnering to increase their resources, achieve their mission and have a greater impact on the community.

Need more funds, staff, facilities, and/or other resources than you current have budget to obtain? Tune into Leadership Matters with host Dr. Sheryl Gee, Vice President of Training and Organization Development/InnoVisions with the Neighborhood House Association in San Diego, CA; co-host Jenni Frumer, Associate Executive Director of Alpert Jewish Children & Family Services in West Palm Beach, Florida, special guest Michael Johnson, Chief Executive Officer of the Boys and Girls Club of Dane County, Madison, WI; and Outreach Director Valerie Wright, CEO of Wright Ideas Unlimited in West Palm Beach, Florida. Listen and/or join the conversation on successful ways in which nonprofit, government, and corporations are partnering to increase their resources, achieve their mission and have a greater impact on the community.

Strategic Partnerships: The Power of Collaboration Join Co-hosts Linda Shoob and John Jeanetta as we discuss the power of Collaboration and Partnerships in the non-profit environment. We will begin the show by talking with our guest Jim Floros, newly appointed as the President and CEO of Jacobs Cushman San Diego Food Bank. Mr. Floros previously served 20 years as the executive director and CEO of the Burn Institute in San Diego, a nonprofit dedicated to reducing fire and burn injuries and deaths. Under Floros’ leadership, the Institute became the leading burn foundation in the nation and is held as a national model. Before that, he served as Director of Community relations at the world headquarters of Project Concern International, a development agency that provides clean drinking water and immunizations in the poorest regions of the world. Increasingly, non-profits and public sector organizations are engaged in strategic collaborations with “unlikely” partners to build organizational capacity and expand

In 2008, the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services launched a massive effort to privatize the delivery of child welfare services. While certainly lawmakers had hoped to save taxpayer dollars, the major impetus for this effort was to address the fact Nebraska has one of the highest rates in the U.S. of children in out-of-home care. In November of 2009, five lead agencies were selected to deliver and coordinate child welfare services across the state. Two years later, all but one of these lead agencies, the Nebraska Families Collaborative (NFC), had either gone bankrupt or ended their contract. Dave Newell, president & chief executive officer of the NFC, will join us to discuss the leadership challenges he has encountered since joining the NFC’s leadership team in 2010, and the leadership skills he has found to be the most helpful in securing the sustained success of his agency and the public/private partnership it entails.

Join Co-hosts Jenni Frumer and John Jeanetta as we explore the impact of authentic collaborations, with our guest Scott Greenberg, President and CEO of ComForcare Senior Services. Mr. Greenberg comes from a successful corporate background and has for the past few years been immersed in working closely with nonprofits, partnering around a number of patient-focused and community endeavors. Increasingly, agencies are engaged in strategic collaborations with “unlikely” partners, to build organizational capacity and expand the scope, breadth, depth and reach of services. We will discuss and offer up examples of partnerships based in trust, committed collaborative efforts which focus on the process of building community AND business models for success.

It’s easy to get caught up in day-to-day operations and the confines of our immediate area of direct responsibility. Tune into Leadership Matters to explore ways to become a more strategic thinker and leader. Call-in or email to join host Dr. Sheryl Gee and co-host Linda Shoob for practical tips on Leadership Matters: Informing Leaders. Inspiring Solutions.

As the Great Recession has demonstrated, the world is indeed growing smaller and societies across the globe are inexorably linked and dependent upon one another. What global leadership challenges loom on the horizon? How might technological advances in China or political changes in Myanmar create opportunities and challenges for nonprofits in the United States? Join co-hosts John Jeanetta and Linda Shoob as they discuss globalization and its impact on the American nonprofit sector with their guest, Natalia Dombrovskaya, Senior Program Officer at the American Councils for International Education. The American Councils is one of the premier American education and international training organizations, administering more than 30 major exchange, development, research, and training programs in cooperation with 42 countries around the world.

Five young leaders from Ukraine will be visiting Nebraska in June as delegates participating in the Open World Leadership Program, a branch entity of the U.S. Congress. Global sharing offers unique opportunities to study leadership and cultures. A cultural leadership exchange is a popular practice and is an exciting learning prospect. Join co-hosts Jenni Frumer and John Jeanetta to explore what motivates these Ukrainian young professional nonprofit leaders to visit the USA and specifically, Heartland Family Service in Omaha. We will learn about the Open World Leadership Center program and discuss leadership challenges - both similarities and differences - between the U.S. and Ukraine.

Much has been written about leadership styles. Servant Leadership was coined by Robert Greenleaf in 1970 and many leaders in nonprofits and public agencies are comfortable with this style of leadership. Others tend to lead with power. Are effective leaders engaged in a particular dominant style of leadership; or a combination of styles? During this episode, Dr. G will introduce Jenni Frumer, our new co-host, and Jenni, guest, Jennifer Moss Breen, PhD and Dr. G will discuss effective leadership from these two perspectives. This forum will explore how to better identify your own style of leadership, or those with whom you interact.