Leading with Every Action: An Expert Interview Series

In this series of interviews with industry experts, we will discuss important topics facing nonprofit leaders today to spark conversation, further discussion, and most importantly... action.

Join us if you…

• Are responsible for cultivating an inclusive and equitable organization
• Regularly communicate with your Board of Directors and seek their buy-in and participation
• Want to ensure that your organization is actually  inclusive and equitable to work and support
• Are interested in your organization being inclusive and accessible to all supporters

Integrating Equity in Your Operations with Big Change Consulting and Raising the Bar Performance Group

>> Watch the Recording Here! <<

Jodi Segal

Big Change Consulting’s Principal, Jodi Segal, has been helping nonprofit organizations start up, gear up, and clean up their operations, HR, and fundraising for 25 years. She has built strong and successful programs at growing local, state, and national organizations. After repeatedly witnessing nonprofits struggle with effective and efficient operations, Jodi recognized the lack of services to help. She designed a unique scope of work for Big Change Consulting to solve these problems. The benefit of Jodi’s experience for organizations is she sees around corners and designs streamlined solutions that last. She is passionate about partnering with leaders to solve operations challenges so they can focus on the critical work of fulfilling their mission.

Courtnee Carrigan

With over 15 years’ experience as a nonprofit leader, executive trainer, and strategic facilitator of Diversity and Inclusion initiatives, Courtnee combines innovative strategy with effective communication to influence positive change and build organizational capacity. Throughout Ms. Carrigan’s career she has successfully worked with businesses, government, non-profits, and universities to develop, design, and implement well-researched policies, practices, and strategies that result in inclusive and equitable workplaces.

Friday, November 5, 2021 at 1:00 pm EST

How Can Accessibility Design Benefit Nonprofits with Firefly Partners

Santana Singleton

Santana is a Human-Centered Design Leader with 15 years of creating visual branding, digital marketing ecosystems, and both website and native product user experiences for B2B and B2C. She has brought the Design Thinking Process into projects to leverage diversity, maintain consistency and improve efficiency, while increasing revenue, employee engagement, and monthly active users (MAU). In 2012, Santana’s mother suffered a brain aneurysm that resulted in her having cognitive impairment. Her mother’s rehabilitation journey included navigating healthcare, government, and assistance services’ websites and digital forms that had poor legibility and usability. Santana was inspired to take her creative and visual design skillset into the UX/UI world to improve usability for all users. Today she is a Manager of Design Systems at A+E Networks, UX/UI Bootcamp Instructor at the University of Denver, and a UX/UI Design Consultant for Accessibility Design with Firefly Partners.

Friday, November 12, 2021 at 1:00 pm EST

Leading Equitably and Inclusively - What it Takes with Minal Bopaiah

Minal Bopaiah

Minal Bopaiah is the author of Equity: How to Design Organizations Where Everyone Thrives. She is the founder of Brevity & Wit, a strategy + design firm that combines human-centered design, behavior change science and the principles of inclusion, diversity, equity and accessibility to help organizations transform themselves and the world. Bopaiah has written for the Stanford Social Innovation Review and The Hill and has been a featured guest on numerous podcasts and shows, including the Kojo Nnamdi Show on WAMU. She has also been a keynote speaker for many conferences, inspiring thousands with her credible, authentic, and engaging talks. For more information, please visit https://theequitybook.com.