Emily Taylor… As the principal of teenyBIG, Emily helps nonprofits at an inflection point make big decisions that affect their community so they can move from indecision to intentional, next-level growth. She empowers bold leaders to gather the information they need to make big decisions with buy-in so they can move from a holding pattern and into next-level growth. Emily discusses the need for nonprofits to reset and make strategic decisions in the post-COVID world, the challenges of strategic planning, and the importance of taking a step back before diving into the process.   What You Will Discover:  ✔️ Listening to the community and staying connected to the humanity behind the work of nonprofits is essential for making informed and impactful decisions. ✔️ Balancing vision and analysis is crucial in making strategic decisions. Organizations should consider both the big picture  ✔️ Strategic planning is not always the right solution for every organization. It is important to customize the approach and create a useful tool that aligns with the organization's goals and needs. —————————————— Emily Taylor works with nonprofit leaders whose organizations are at an inflection point - they’re ready to catapult their mission into their next stage of growth. Leaders who seek Emily’s expertise know they need to shift their decision-making from intuitive to intentional but are unsure of how to start that process.  She first grounds the organization in ‘who they are’ to help them prioritize the challenges that lie ahead. To achieve this, Emily applies her individualized strategic listening methodology with an organization's community, allowing teams to 'see their value' and align their decision-making as an organization, not just the CEO. She helps them prioritize their big decisions and builds a foundation for organizational decision-making. As a result of this process, Emily's clients are able to paint a solid picture of their organization, one that is viewed similarly internally and externally, preparing them for their next stage of growth.  Her clients are empowered to move forward by shifting their decision-making from intuitive to intentional. Emily attributes her success to her unique ability to balance left and right brain thinking - to make sense of people’s emotions and motivations and apply them to strategic thinking, including all the perspectives that make us human. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/emily-taylor-teenybig/ Website: https://www.teenybig.com/ —————————————— Welcome to the Business Behind Fundraising podcast, where you’ll discover how to raise the kind of money your big vision requires without adding more events, appeals, or grant applications. Learn how to stop blocking overall revenue growth and start attracting investment-level donors with Sherry Quam Taylor. Sherry Quam Taylor’s unique approach and success combine her background of scaling businesses with her decade-long experience advising nonprofit leadership teams. With out-of-the-box principles and a myth-busting methodology, proven results, and an ability to see solutions to revenue problems that others overlook, her clients regularly add 7-figures of revenue to their bottom line. If you need a true partner to show you how to fully finance your entire mission, both programs, AND overhead, year after year… You’re in the right place!   #nonprofits #podcast