Leaving Well: nonprofit leadership guidance for workplace exits and transitions

Joan says: It often feels as if I've spent my career leaving positions, organizations, and their people. I love beginnings and the energy that comes with stepping into something new and that means that in some way, I love endings as well. With a whole passel of interim gigs under my belt, I now also work at helping others find and succeed in those roles through the Interim Executives Academy and it's been a good match. I'm an empty-nester and live and work in Fort Wayne, IN, where I share a house with T.S. Eliot, the cat, who, like me, enjoys nothing more than sitting in the sun. I read. He snores.

Main quote: When change has come to me because of others actions or changes beyond my control, that's where my lessons are. That's when I learn most deeply from the change. And I've learned to grieve if there's some grieving or sadness around change or transition. Then to find what's to celebrate about it.

‌Additional Quote: I may have to leave something, but I want to know how I can leave with the most grace and respect for what was, and value and treasure what was, and leave everybody in the best position to move forward from the change, not just me. I want to be a person that leaves well, but I also want to be a person that can be left well.

To connect with Joan:

• Website
• LinkedIn
• Interim Executive Academy

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To listen to more episodes about values, check out episodes 18, 38, 40, 42 and 48!

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Amy Freitag became president of The New York Community Trust in July 2022. For the prior eight years, she was executive director of the J.M. Kaplan Fund, a 75-year-old family foundation based in New York City. During her tenure, she initiated the J.M.K. Innovation Prize and led grantmaking in criminal justice reform, climate change, democracy, and historical conservation, including several Civil Rights sites.

Freitag previously was executive director of the New York Restoration Project, which led a private effort to plant one million new trees in New York City. Prior to that, she was the U.S. program director for the World Monuments Fund and deputy commissioner for capital projects with the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation.

She served on the NYC Mayoral Advisory Commission on City Art, Monuments, and Markers and currently sits on the board of the James Marston Fitch Charitable Foundation.

Freitag was raised in Akron, Ohio, and holds an A.B. from Smith College and master's degrees in landscape architecture and historic preservation from the University of Pennsylvania.

Main quote: The best leaders I know always want the organization to thrive well past their ambition. The organization will go to new places, and we all have certain gifts that we bring to an organization, and no one person can lead an organization forever. It gets richer with different leadership.

‌Additional Quotes: If we don't listen and adjust, we may not be as effective as we want to be. It's super hard, and it sounds really basic, but I actually think listening is one of our biggest superpowers that we have to lean into to really maximize and optimize.

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This podcast is produced by Sarah Hartley

N. Chloé Nwangwu, the brand scientist, is a speaker, behavioral strategist, and brand visibility expert. A former international conflict mediator, she is now the founder of NobiWorks, a brand visibility consultancy where she partners with underrecognized brands, leveraging science to ensure they are impossible to ignore. Her clients have included a number of boutique firms, the High Ambition Coalition, and the first refugee delegation to the UN.

Main quote: "Your circle of recognition is just fancy talk for your network. But it is your network organized around a specific behavior, namely recognition. And ensuring that your circle of recognition is designed to amplify your ideas in the right kind of way, that's going to be the path forward."

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Additional Quotes:

"Don't be content with disrupting the present. Focus on shaping the future."

"One of the most pernicious things that ideal client avatars do, and why I find them so dangerous, is that they segment us and our world into demographic, sometimes psychographic segments."

To connect with Chloé:

Website

Nobi Works Linked

N. Chloé on LinkedIn

Instagram

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To take the Workplace Transition Archetype Quiz

To learn more about Leaving Well

This podcast is produced by Sarah Hartley

If you're new here, Leaving Well is the art and practice of leaving a place, role, title, or thing with intention and purpose, and when possible … joy.

To chat with me about bringing After Action Reviews to your nonprofit or social impact organization, contact me here.

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To support the production of this podcast, peruse my Leaving Well Bookshop or buy me a coffee.

This podcast is produced by Sarah Hartley.

If you're new here, Leaving Well is the art and practice of leaving a place, role, title, or thing with intention and purpose, and when possible … joy.

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Resources shared in this episode:

Africa Brooke's book: Amazon | Bookshop

The Decelerator

The Wind Down

To learn more about Leaving Well, visit https://www.naomihattaway.com/

To support the production of this podcast, peruse my Leaving Well Bookshop or buy me a coffee.

This podcast is produced by Sarah Hartley.

If you're new here, Leaving Well is the art and practice of leaving a place, role, title, or thing with intention and purpose, and when possible … joy.

To share your thoughts with me on this episode, please leave me an audio message on SpeakPipe!

To learn more about Leaving Well, visit https://www.naomihattaway.com/

To support the production of this podcast, peruse my Leaving Well Bookshop or buy me a coffee.

This podcast is produced by Sarah Hartley.

If you're new here, Leaving Well is the art and practice of leaving a place, role, title, or thing with intention and purpose, and when possible … joy.

Resources and articles mentioned in this episode:

Third Sector Academy

To learn more about Leaving Well, visit https://www.naomihattaway.com/

To support the production of this podcast, peruse my Leaving Well Bookshop or buy me a coffee.

This podcast is produced by Sarah Hartley.

If you're new here, Leaving Well is the art and practice of leaving a place, role, title, or thing with intention and purpose, and when possible … joy.

To learn more about Leaving Well, visit https://www.naomihattaway.com/

To support the production of this podcast, peruse my Leaving Well Bookshop or buy me a coffee.

This podcast is produced by Sarah Hartley.

If you're new here, Leaving Well is the art and practice of leaving a place, role, title, or thing with intention and purpose, and when possible … joy.

To share your thoughts with me on this episode, please leave me an audio message on SpeakPipe!

To learn more about Leaving Well, visit https://www.naomihattaway.com/

To support the production of this podcast, peruse my Leaving Well Bookshop or buy me a coffee.

This podcast is produced by Sarah Hartley.