320: Level Up Your Strategic Planning with Doug Paul

If you are thinking about strategic planning, this episode is for you! Host Sarah Olivieri and special guest Doug Paul talk strategy and impact combining their 40+ years of strategy experience. They cover strategic planning, execution, and maintaining a balance between passion-driven goals and practical actions and go into some key concepts like the Pareto principle, assumptions mapping, and the difference between process goals and outcome goals. This episode is packed with actionable advice for ambitious nonprofit leaders! Episode Highlights 02:12 Challenges and Strategies in Nonprofit Leadership 04:36 The Importance of Integrating Strategy and Execution 05:52 Balancing Passion and Discipline 08:42 Developing and Implementing Effective Strategies 24:02 The Role of Boards and Stakeholders Meet the Guest Doug Paul is a Managing Partner and Innovation Strategist of Catapult, an organization that helps leaders build successful non-profits that scale. In addition to working with more than 1300 nonprofits over the course of his career, he's written the bestselling book Ready or Not and lives in Richmond, Virginia, along with his wife, Elizabeth, three kids, and great Dane Oliver. Connect with Doug: https://wearecatapult.org/ Sponsored Resource Join the Inspired Nonprofit Leadership Newsletter for weekly tips and inspiration for leading your nonprofit! Access it here >> Be sure to subscribe to Inspired Nonprofit Leadership so that you don't miss a single episode, and while you're at it, won't you take a moment to write a short review and rate our show? It would be greatly appreciated! Let us know the topics or questions you would like to hear about in a future episode. You can do that and follow us on LinkedIn.