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Client Stories

How the Wichita Foundation Found Its Right-Sized Role

I want to start with the ending, because it's not a typical 'success' story. The Wichita Foundation is no longer our client.

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Shelly Prichard

President & CEO

Fifteen Hours Every Week, Back in Stacey’s Calendar

Before Hannah came on board, Stacey was spending hours every day scheduling meetings (not attending meetings, simply getting them scheduled).

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Stacey Putka

Co-Founder, Executive Director & President of the Board

Why April Felt Like She Could Finally Say Yes to Harvard

April Holman

Executive Director

April Holman is doing something she has never done in her career: investing three weeks in her own leadership development at the Harvard Kennedy School, in the Senior Leaders in State and Local Government program, followed by a week of vacation.

When I sat down with her, she told me the most she'd ever been away before was a single week. And then she said something I haven't stopped thinking about, "I'm not sure that I would do this if I didn't know that things were going to be taken care of.”

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