Create a High Performing Team That Advances Your Organization

High-performing teams are the key to organizational success. What sets these teams apart is a foundation of trust. These teams have shared values and vision and work to achieve common goals. They are able to engage in conflict around ideas and operate in an environment of feedback and accountability. 

High-performing teams have a coaching culture.  According to a recent McKinsey study, coaching is now well established as one of the most important competencies for maximizing and sustaining individual and team performance. 

Individuals on high-performing teams support one another in minimizing sabotaging behaviors and embracing unique superpowers.

Partner with Fundraising Leadership to create an environment that allows you and your team to flourish and thrive and get results for the organization and its stakeholders. 

1. Six-hour workshop (Growing Together Through Trust, Candor, and Conflict)

2. Six weeks of live online training (Create a Coaching Culture to Maximize Performance)

3. Six-hour workshop (Coaching Practice and Positive Intelligence Introduction)

4. Seven weeks of live online training (Positive Intelligence (PQ) for Teams)

5. Six-hour capstone workshop (Integrate and Activate)

Underpinning all this training is the opportunity to work 1:1 with an

Executive Coach

"David, Janice, Michelle, and Margaret are excellent trainers.  They are engaging, practical, and they will definitely challenge you to learn and grow."

"David, Janice, Michelle, and Margaret do an extremely good job making you feel safe (but not comfortable)  They create an environment where you can take risks."

David, Janice, Michelle, and Margaret created a remarkable environment for our team.  As facilitators, they are diverse and unique individuals that are also articulate, sensitive, and fun! Because they are certified coaches with real-life nonprofit experience, they were able to share personal and professional stories and examples that were relevant to our everyday leadership roles. I was inspired by the role play and exercises.  I thank them for challenging us and sparking this change.”

"I enjoy the different coaching and teaching styles of the Fundraising Leadership Team. I will be recommending this program to other colleagues at UM."

"We had a lot of fun connecting with the Fundraising Leadership Team as neutral but wonderfully engaged facilitators. They bring great credibility as seasoned nonprofit professionals and a proven record of accomplishment.  I look forward to working with them in the future and unreservedly recommend them to others.

"Well-paced and interesting.  Diverse in content.  Active."

"This program helped our team set the stage for engaging with each other in a healthy way."

"Very insightful and instructive."

"The program helped me better understand my own leadership style, while also learning how to interact with members of my team that have different styles."

"Safe but not comfortable."

"I really enjoyed the training and am applying the insights I learned while also making a plan to strengthen some of my areas of leadership based on the program. I would certainly recommend that every person do a similar assessment and workshop."

"Kind of like therapy, unusual, valuable, and worth it."

"It was an eye-opening, energizing, and fascinating workshop! The feedback from the team was so positive and it's safe to say that we learned more about ourselves, each other, and the way we communicate."

"Really opened my eyes to what's possible for our team."

"Very helpful and great experience for our team.  Thank you."

"In some of my favorite post-session news, one leader reached out to me afterward and said that she really understands another teammate in a new way and now realizes how she needs to work with her. I seriously almost cried happy tears. Another leader on the team had an epiphany where she realized that she needs to just be herself. And I renegotiated a commitment with one of my direct reports."

"This proram was powerful and transformative."

"It's about as much personal growth as you can pack into a program.  Awesome!"

David Langiulli is an experienced leader, fundraiser, trainer, and a certified professional Co-Active coach (CPCC, PCC). David uses all of his courage, compassion, and wisdom to help leaders and their organizations flourish and thrive. As a coach, he’s been described as: “gently-fierce!”  David loves helping nonprofit leaders clarify what’s essential and important so they can effectively lead their teams, and achieve results for their organizations.  As a trainer, he helps teams, working groups, and boards build trust, engage in healthy conflict, and create cultures of accountability, candor, and integrity.  His professional background spans both the nonprofit and corporate sectors for over three decades.  ?Fun Fact? David is currently on a 10yr quest to be a black belt in the martial art of Jiu-Jitsu.  Continue reading…

Margaret Katz Cann is a Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC, PCC).  She specializes in executive fundraising coaching, board training and consulting, Margaret works with nonprofit executives to stop tripping over their ask, to connect to passion and leadership – and step into the world of compelling fundraising. Margaret is an experienced and joyful fundraiser, having spent 22 years at the Community Foundation Boulder County. She is passionate about the intersection of coaching with fundraising, and the way leaders who are willing and wanting to up their game can step away from anxiety and dread can step into their leadership as fundraisers for their organizations. Her nonprofit clients include executive directors, board members, and development staff, where she works with organizations to plan and then adds coaching to make the plans become reality.  Continue Reading…

Michelle Maloy Dillon is an experienced entrepreneur, trainer, and certified professional Co-Active coach (CPCC, PCC) who specializes in leadership development. As a coach, she is passionate about helping her clients be aware of their strengths and stretching themselves as leaders to be conscious of their impact. In addition to coaching, Michelle also designs and facilitates leadership programs that challenge the conventional definition of leadership. She helps leaders create a culture of collaborative decision making that is highly adaptable to change. This enables leaders to harness the creative problem-solving techniques that are unique to them.  Continue reading…

Who We've Helped

We've worked with leaders and teams at many nonprofits, including those in these sectors:

Education and Research: Able Academy, American Institutes for Research, Bucknell University, Columbia University, Cornell University, Colorado State University, Dartmouth University, Franklin and Marshall College, George Washington University, Lehigh University, New York University, Naples Children’s and Education Foundation, Oklahoma State University Foundation, Pathways to Education Canada, Princeton University, Rockford University, Rutgers University, Stanford University, San Francisco State University, University of California (San Francisco), University of Florida, University of Michigan, University of Rochester, University of Southern California, University of Toronto, University of Wisconsin, Washington University in St. Louis, Wesleyan University, Yale University

Health: Catholic Health Services of Long Island, CAMH Foundation, Rise Against Suicide, San Francisco General Hospital, Toronto General and Western Hospital Foundation

Social Services: Boys and Girls Club, Camp Oochigeas, Collier Child Care, Future Possibilities for Kids, Harry Chapin Foodbank, Hillside Family Agencies, OUR Center, Meals on Wheels, RAICES, Sanibel Community Housing, Toronto Foundation, United Way Greater Toronto, YMCA Greater Toronto, YWCA Toronto

Arts and Culture: Friends of the Pool, Mercer Union, Naples Art Association, Threshold Choir, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, USO

Environment: Conservancy of Southwest Florida, Nature Conservancy

International: ADRA International, Ashinaga, Grand Challenges Canada, UNICEF, UN Population Fund