IDD Leader

You're short-staffed. Which means your team gets burned out. Which means people leave. Which means you're even more short-staffed than before. If that loop sounds familiar, here's the uncomfortable part: the way most...

You've probably had a version of this moment yourself: someone on your team says all the right things about wanting to grow as a leader, and when you ask what "getting better" would actually look like, day to day, the...

Somewhere on your team right now, a staff member hired last month is quietly deciding whether they'll make it to ninety days. Not because of one bad shift — because of a growing handful of small things nobody's asked...

If some version of this story sounds familiar, you're not alone: There's a rebranding effort — new logo, new shirts, new colors, the whole thing — that lasted about a month before nobody could find the shirts anymore...

Turnover was sitting at 60% year after year, and Dr. Manny Rodriguez says the first question nobody was asking wasn’t “how do we fix this,” it was “why do we assume we already know why people are leaving?” You’ve...

Take a full two weeks off — no email, no check-ins, phone off — and watch what happens to your organization. If that thought makes you a little uneasy, you're not alone, and Wes and Kristy Mast built their entire...

<p>If you're leading in this field, chances are you already know: there's no real playbook. No one handed you a map for the exact situation you're in right now.</p><p>Amanda Elder and Kim Champney lead in rural Alaska...

If you're leading in this field, chances are you already know: there's no real playbook. No one handed you a map for the exact situation you're in right now. Amanda Elder and Kim Champney lead in rural Alaska, where...

<p>One organization used to spend three staff members and two full weeks writing their quarterly reports. Now it takes one person about an hour.<br/><br/>That's the kind of number Daniel Caridi, co-founder of Kibu...

One organization used to spend three staff members and two full weeks writing their quarterly reports. Now it takes one person about an hour. That's the kind of number Daniel Caridi, co-founder of Kibu, mentions almost...

<p>A volunteer dodgeball class for five people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. That's where Daniel Caridi's company started — and somehow it turned into an EHR platform now used by over 400 disability...

A volunteer dodgeball class for five people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. That's where Daniel Caridi's company started — and somehow it turned into an EHR platform now used by over 400 disability...

<p>There was a woman in her 80s. Her one goal was to get her driver's license. When someone finally asked where she'd go first, she said the grocery store. Then: "I'd go see my sister." <b>They didn't know she had a...

There was a woman in her 80s. Her one goal was to get her driver's license. When someone finally asked where she'd go first, she said the grocery store. Then: "I'd go see my sister." They didn't know she had a sister...

<p>What if the thing you've been dreading is actually the thing that could transform your organization?<br/><br/>For the past year, Nate kept noticing a pattern: a disproportionate number of the highest-performing...