Managing Through Uncertainty: Communicating, Connection, and Sustainability
Managing Through Uncertainty: Prioritization and Scenario Planning
Jakada Imani and Chloe Davis-Carden of The Management Center (TMC), share how nonprofit leaders and managers can set priorities and engage in effective scenario planning.
TMC helps nonprofit leaders build and run stronger, more sustainable, and results-driven organizations. TMC has trained thousands of nonprofit leaders and staff, virtually and in person, on critical professional development topics.
During the webinar, Jakada and Chloe spend time exploring how to:
Set priorities, even when goals are shifting
Identify possible scenarios and surface possible (and actionable) responses
About the Speaker
Jakada Imani is a spiritually-rooted coach and trainer with more than 30 years experience working in social and economic justice movements. He served for six years as executive director of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, taking over from the center's founder, Van Jones. Before becoming the executive director, he served as the lead strategist for some of the organization’s most-high-profile campaigns. He was a lead team member in the successful efforts to stop the construction of one of the nation’s largest juvenile halls—an enormous, “Super Jail for Kids.”
He also led two successful, statewide ballot-measure campaigns (“No on Prop 6,” in 2008, and, “No on Prop 23,” in 2010). Over the last two decades, Imani has worked on a range of issues, including racial and economic justice, workers’ rights, tenant organizing, and green jobs. In 2013, he received a ChangeMaker Fellowship from Pacific School of Religion, where he served for two years leading a center for spiritual and social transformation. He is the father of four powerful and creative daughters.
Chloe Davis-Carden has had the opportunity to view the state of education in the United States from multiple vantage points. They have worked in education non-profits, public charter schools, and the EdTech industry. They started as a teacher and shifted into administration when they realized their passion for building equitable, joyful, student-driven culture.
They have been a Dean, a Director of Culture and a Director of the Match Corps at Match Charter Public School. There they managed teams varying in size from 1 to 20 people. They have served as the Managing Director of Student Services at Breakthrough Greater Boston, managing teams across 3 different cities in Massachusetts. When they realized the impact that leadership and culture have on the experience of staff and effectiveness of a workplace, they transitioned their career to organizational culture and leadership training. They led a People & Culture team at an EdTech startup and their most recent role was training and coaching managers and executives in multiple industries on how to lead and manage effectively and equitably.
As a trainer and coach at TMC, they support organizations that are doing important work. Chloe has their Masters in Effective Teaching from Charles Sposato Graduate School of Education.
