Being an Ambassador for Your Agency
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About the event
Transform your organization's message into a compelling narrative that resonates with stakeholders. Led by Marsie, this hands-on workshop will help participants craft and practice delivering powerful stories about their mission. This session includes peer feedback and real-time message refinement, ensuring your narrative is powerful and polished.
Additional Information
This event is part of the Learning Hub program Executive Director Learning Circle. The Santa Fe Community Foundation proudly offers the Learning Hub as an educational space for nonprofit board, executive directors, staff members, and donors. Each year, the Hub offers dozens of events, workshops, and learning circles that promote leadership, skill building, and peer-supported growth.
Meet the people leading the conversation
Ross Chaney
Ross Chaney
Ross Chaney is a seasoned nonprofit and business consultant who specializes in strategic planning, writing, executive coaching, and applications of AI for nonprofits and small organizations. He has 20 years of experience in northern New Mexico nonprofit and public service, working across different leadership roles and diverse sectors. Ross’ experience includes:
- Coaching for ED’s and program staff for leadership development
- Governance, organizational development, operations and strategy
- Policy issues, program/operations expansion or reduction
- Budgeting and finance coaching
- Reviewing grant proposals, reports, and other documents
- Exploring the potential of AI for your organization
- Extensive knowledge of Native American and NM culture
Marsie Silvestro
Marsie Silvestro
Marsie Silvestro brings four decades of expertise to her roles as an intuitive and dynamic Executive Director, Board and Staff Trainer, Group Retreat Facilitator and Mentor. Her leadership experience spans work on both the local and national levels. She is proficient in the Appreciative Inquiry Strategic Model which focuses on identifying an organization's strengths through individual and group interviewing progresses that honors what has been done, creates transformative collective dreaming and creating effective solution based and accomplishable work plans that will move an agency toward growth and a new pathways toward a successful mission.
Marsie believes that no matter what someone’s position is in an agency or the community, all are needed to steer towards a future that elevates the voices and needs of those they serve, as well as ensures that staff and board members feel heard, listened to, included, and appreciated as a thread in the web of service and safety.
Dr. Monique Anair
Dr. Monique Anair
I have worked as a filmmaker, and taught multimedia content creation and communication studies since the 1990’s. My research and consulting services are designed to help individuals and organizations create and tell their unique story. Since 2005, I have worked with students, business owners, and corporations to design open innovation research methodologies that leverage community voices through current and emerging technology. I have over 20 years experience working alongside New Mexico community leaders and I am constantly learning new ways to observe our world and tell the stories that inspire us. You can find out more about my work at www.moniqueanair.com
Meet the people leading the conversation
Ross Chaney
Ross Chaney
Ross Chaney is a seasoned nonprofit and business consultant who specializes in strategic planning, writing, executive coaching, and applications of AI for nonprofits and small organizations. He has 20 years of experience in northern New Mexico nonprofit and public service, working across different leadership roles and diverse sectors. Ross’ experience includes:
- Coaching for ED’s and program staff for leadership development
- Governance, organizational development, operations and strategy
- Policy issues, program/operations expansion or reduction
- Budgeting and finance coaching
- Reviewing grant proposals, reports, and other documents
- Exploring the potential of AI for your organization
- Extensive knowledge of Native American and NM culture
Marsie Silvestro
Marsie Silvestro
Marsie Silvestro brings four decades of expertise to her roles as an intuitive and dynamic Executive Director, Board and Staff Trainer, Group Retreat Facilitator and Mentor. Her leadership experience spans work on both the local and national levels. She is proficient in the Appreciative Inquiry Strategic Model which focuses on identifying an organization's strengths through individual and group interviewing progresses that honors what has been done, creates transformative collective dreaming and creating effective solution based and accomplishable work plans that will move an agency toward growth and a new pathways toward a successful mission.
Marsie believes that no matter what someone’s position is in an agency or the community, all are needed to steer towards a future that elevates the voices and needs of those they serve, as well as ensures that staff and board members feel heard, listened to, included, and appreciated as a thread in the web of service and safety.
Meet the people leading the conversation
Dr. Monique Anair
Dr. Monique Anair
I have worked as a filmmaker, and taught multimedia content creation and communication studies since the 1990’s. My research and consulting services are designed to help individuals and organizations create and tell their unique story. Since 2005, I have worked with students, business owners, and corporations to design open innovation research methodologies that leverage community voices through current and emerging technology. I have over 20 years experience working alongside New Mexico community leaders and I am constantly learning new ways to observe our world and tell the stories that inspire us. You can find out more about my work at www.moniqueanair.com
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