Join your nonprofit industry peers at The Nonprofit Alliance 2023 Rising Leaders Summit

As a rising leader, you divide your time and focus between three levels of impact: ME, yourself as a smart and savvy professional with a track record of success and a list of ambitious goals;  WE, your organization, team, or other growing circle of influence; and COMMUNITY, the social impact sector as a whole, your professional “why.” Balancing all three requires intentional practice. If you are ready to up your game, you’re in the right place.

Participation is recommended for midlevel managers and future executives who:

• have a solid foundation of tactical skills;
• are increasingly being recognized as subject matter experts;
• lead a team and/or manage one or more direct reports; and
• are motivated to “think big” and develop strategic planning skills.

The TNPA Rising Leaders Summit blends peer conversations and podium speakers.  We use Liberating Structures, facilitation techniques that stimulate critical conversations and elevate the expertise in the room. Attendees will take these facilitation tools and skills back to their own organizations to help ensure all voices are being heard and to spur greater engagement and innovation.

Wednesday, October 4: Welcome Networking Reception & Happy Hour (5:00-7:00 p.m.)

Join us for a drink and appetizers. Harold’s Room at Club 101, 101 Park Ave., New York, NY (steps from Grand Central Station). Your registration for the Rising Leaders Summit includes your attendance at the Welcome Reception & Happy Hour.

Non-Attendees can RSVP for their ticket here. 

Thursday, October 5: Rising Leaders Summit (8:30-4:00 p.m.)

Registration & Networking Breakfast

Morning Program |  What are the biggest challenges in your role today? What if you could flip those, turning barriers into opportunities — for you, your team, and the greater good? We will leverage the experience in the room to set the focus for the day and ensure you leave with new ideas and strategies for immediate implementation.

Leverage the Power of Your Leadership Intelligence  with Executive & Leadership Coach Caroline Kim Oh | Where do you stack up with the skills and approaches that make a great leader? Discover new ways of showing up in your leadership, assess your individual strengths and development opportunities, and create an action plan with concrete next steps to develop your leadership career.

Networking Lunch

The Wisdom Panel |  Hear from accomplished leaders in the nonprofit sector to learn about their paths, explore their current projects and challenges, and ask for advice.

• Paula Attfield, President, Stephen Thomas Ltd
• Steve Froehlich, Chief Revenue & Development Officer, ALSAC/St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
• Marie Adolphe, Program Officer, CareerWise
• David Brownstein, Nonprofit Founder, Wild Earth
• Jose Carbonell, Chief Marketing Officer, Consumer Reports

Break

Peer Consulting |  One of the favorite activities of many TNPA conferences, this workshop allows you to bring a specific work or leadership challenge you are facing to a small group of peers to learn from each other and create possible paths forward.

Wrap Up

Loved this event so much! I came back with a positive attitude, motivated to do my job better, and so many good ideas of next steps. I’ve already shared with a couple of our partners how helpful this was and plan to “borrow” some ideas in our upcoming company retreat.  

Incredibly appreciative of the interactive and actionable content of the conference. As someone looking to step up in my career, I walked away with a plan of action and about a dozen new peer connections. 

Good sessions that were different from the usual career development material. 

I rarely give 5s, but this felt so fresh and different — and also very actionable. I gained so many key insights from the panel and also the [peer consulting] session, in particular. 

This is the first conference I’ve been to in my career where I’ve walked away feeling like I have an action plan to solve the current problems I’m facing.  Additionally, it was geared toward me and where I am at in my career.

Loved the interaction, networking, movement and stretching of the mind in terms of thinking through things differently.

Networking was invaluable and the wisdom panel was second to none in terms of other events I have attended within the nonprofit industry.

I loved how interactive and convicting it was.  It was interesting, engaging, helpful and refreshingly unique.  I often don’t leave one-day events with any ah-ha’s or big takeaways or action plans, but I did with this Summit.