Your Leaving Well guide to navigating workplace transitions 🧡 I normalize workplace transitions one organization + person at a time. Leaving Well is the art + practice of leaving in the workplace, with intention + joy.
AFP Greater Madison: Building for What's Next
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​Leaving Well in the Workplace
Your Leaving Well guide to navigating workplace transitions 🧡 I normalize workplace transitions one organization + person at a time. Leaving Well is the art + practice of leaving in the workplace, with intention + joy.
A few years ago, Neighborhood Funders Group did something most organizations avoid at all costs. They looked directly at the pattern of hard exits among their own leaders—especially their women of color executives—and asked why it kept happening. Not "what went wrong with this one person”, but to ask what was going wrong with THEIR organization. That distinction is everything. NFG recently published an Accountability in Action Toolkit built from that work, alongside a companion piece by Amy...
8th & Home is fully closing for four weeks this December. December 14, 2026 through January 8, 2027. All of us, all at once (more coming soon, on the "all of us" as we introduce the new 8th & Home team!). No skeleton crew. No "just checking email in case something comes up." This isn't the humble-brag OOO message, being shared to virtue signal (while we then quietly answer emails during said break. Rest IS infrastructure (and the report we shared last week backs this up). It's infrastructure...
In May, I took a month-long sabbatical, including nearly two weeks in Morocco. Here's what happened while I was gone — and what a $43M funder investment report says about doing it right. In May, I took my own sabbatical. A month of being (for the most part) completely offline from my business, including almost 2 weeks in Morocco — part solo, part in a group led by Jodie Patterson. I came back different. This wasn’t the elusive “vacation-rested” version of a trip, it was deep, lasting, and...