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This podcast is a place for nonprofit leaders to gain insights, tips, inspiration, and encouragement to unleash their potential.
Sarah Olivieri hosts Inspired Nonprofit Leadership, a business show with 423 episodes published.
Episode Description The right team is the thing nearly every organization comes back to, whatever else they're working on. Funding, scale, board questions, they all run through the people in the seats. And the way to get
Reflections from host Sarah Olivieri ... When Retention Looks Like a People Problem And Isn't Nonprofits are full of weak signals. A weak signal is when the symptoms of a problem aren't very apparent, or when the symptom
Reflections from host Sarah Olivieri ... The Resource Problem Most Nonprofits Mistake for a Funding Problem Ask any nonprofit leader what their organization needs most, and you will hear the same answer almost every time
Episode Description Most nonprofits are trying to ice a cake that has not been baked. The grants are going out. The Giving Tuesday campaign is on the calendar. The Facebook ads are running. And the foundation underneath
Reflections from host Sarah Olivieri ... Why Your Nonprofit Can't Afford to Outsource Its Own Capacity There is a moment that arrives in almost every mission-driven organization. You build something that works. A program
Most nonprofits are walking into 2026 making the same three fundraising mistakes that quietly sank them in 2025. None of the three look like mistakes from the inside. They look like prudence. They look like stewardship.
Reflections from host Sarah Olivieri ... Strategic Planning as a Rhythm Most nonprofits I talk to are not avoiding strategic planning because they don't believe in it. They're avoiding it because the process is heavy, th
Episode Description Most nonprofit leaders are running a calendar built out of obligations they accepted on autopilot. The board asks. The donor meeting. The standing call that has been on the schedule for so long nobody
Reflections from host Sarah Olivieri ... The Underfunding You Accept Is a Design Choice, Not a Destiny There is a belief running quietly through most of the nonprofit sector. It says that being underfunded is just part o
Most leaders trying to scale their organization start by doing more. Longer days. More meetings. One more push to get the next milestone over the line. The ceiling shows up anyway, because a founder cannot scale herself.
Reflections from host Sarah Olivieri ... The One Decision That Quiets All The Others There is a moment most executive directors know. A funder is hinting at money for a new initiative. A long-time staff member is pushing
Episode Description Most leaders think of delegation as a way to get time back. That framing is half the story, and it's the half that keeps leaders stuck in the weeds. When the conversation around delegation only center
Reflections from host Sarah Olivieri ... The Hidden Cost of "Efficient" Leadership Most nonprofit leaders I work with want to move faster, decide cleaner, and hold the standard. From the outside, that looks responsible.
Episode Description Most founders are running their organization from operator mode and calling it leadership. The doing feels productive. The decisions feel necessary. And the strategic work, the part that actually poin
Reflections from host Sarah Olivieri ... The Problem Isn't Change. It's the Size of the Decision. Most nonprofit leaders I talk to are not actually afraid of change. They are stuck between two sizes of it. On one side, a
Episode Description Most nonprofit leaders sit down to design a program and start by mapping the steps. The modules. The services. The flow. That work is real, and it belongs at step four, not step one. The three steps t
Reflections from host Sarah Olivieri ... How Nonprofit Leaders Can Set Boundaries, Protect Their Mission, and Lead Without Burning Out Here's what nobody tells you when you step into a leadership role at a mission-driven
Your budget is not a financial strategy. It's a forecast — a guess about the future made with the information you had at the time. And the problem isn't that you made a guess. The problem is what most organizations do ne
Reflections from host Sarah Olivieri ... There is a quiet assumption running through most conversations about nonprofits and for-profit businesses. It goes like this: for-profits are the sophisticated ones. Nonprofits ar
Focus Isn't a Personality Trait. It's a System. Most leaders think about focus the wrong way. They treat it like a switch — either you have it or you don't — and then blame themselves when it slips. But focus doesn't wor
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