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Your Path to Nonprofit Leadership
Looking for your next nonprofit job? Want to lead a nonprofit organization? Dr. Patton McDowell (www.pmanonprofit.com) brings the best in nonprofit career development to each episode, helping you find the perfect nonprofit opportunity and guiding you along the path to senior leadership in the philanthropic sector. Patton brings 30 years of nonprofit leadership, coaching and consulting experience, and shares best practices for individual and organizational success based on his work with over 250 nonprofit organizations and their staff and board leaders. Your Path to Nonprofit Leadership features more than 120 interviews with nonprofit leaders and philanthropy experts, as well as deep-dive solo episodes and other special editions. Hit subscribe, and accelerate your journey on a nonprofit career path that can change your life. Learn more at: https://www.podpage.com/your-path-to-nonprofit-leadership/
Your Path to Nonprofit Leadership
292: 5 Keys to Building Your 2025 Leadership Plan (Patton McDowell)
292: 5 Keys to Building Your 2025 Leadership Plan (Patton McDowell)
SUMMARY
This episode is brought to you by our friends at Armstrong McGuire & Associates. Check them out for your next career opportunity OR for help finding an interim executive or your next leader.
This Thanksgiving season, take a moment to pause and invest in your future. As the year draws to a close, there’s no better time to craft your personal strategic plan for 2025. In episode 292 of Your Path to Nonprofit Leadership, discover five actionable steps to elevate your leadership journey: revisit your career vision, reflect on 2024’s achievements and lessons, create a targeted knowledge-building roadmap, develop a strategic networking plan, and optimize your calendar and productivity systems. These keys will help you clarify your goals, build meaningful connections, and focus on growth opportunities. Ready to dive deeper? Join PMA’s new Master Class: Launch Your 2025 Strategic Plan, offered in Charlotte on December 11th or virtually on December 13th. Let’s turn your “someday” into today’s plan for success!
ABOUT PATTON
Patton is the Founder and President of PMA Nonprofit Leadership and brings over 35 years of expertise in philanthropic leadership, having partnered with over 300 organizations across all nonprofit sectors. A CFRE and Master Trainer for AFP Global, he's recognized for his speaking and dynamic facilitation. Starting with Special Olympics International and NC Special Olympics, his journey led to leadership roles at Queens University of Charlotte and UNC Wilmington before founding PMA in 2009. Patton serves as the Director for the Institute for Philanthropic Leadership and facilitates its signature programs: Leadership Gift School and the Emerging Leaders in Philanthropy program. Patton is an Executive in Residence at Cornell University's Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy, and his leadership insights resonate through his weekly podcast Your Path to Nonprofit Leadership and his 2022 book of the same title. A Morehead Scholar from UNC Chapel Hill, he also earned an MBA from McColl School at Queens and a Doctorate in Education (Organizational Change and Leadership) from the University of Southern California.
EPISODE TOPICS & RESOURCES
- Ready for your next leadership opportunity? Visit our partners at Armstrong McGuire
- Register today for Patton’s Master Class: Launch Your 2025 Leadership Plan
- Patton’s book Your Path to Nonprofit Leadership: Seven Keys to Advancing Your Career in the Philanthropic Sector – Now available on Audible
- Don’t miss our weekly Thursday Leadership Lens for the latest on nonprofit leadership