Seven things nobody told me before I became chair of a movement with 13,000 members
I was 28 when I joined Volt. 31 when I became chair, in the middle of a crisis, with a lawsuit, angry members and national media. This is what I didn’t know back then. 1. You’re not equal to everyone else. Even if you badly want to be. I didn’t want to be the boss. […]
The quiet tension between board and director
Not every movement has a board but many do. And when I work with those organisations, I see almost the same thing every time. Meetings run smoothly. Agendas get covered. Decisions get made. But something feels off and everyone senses it, but nobody says it out loud. Three patterns keep coming back. Pattern 1: The […]