From regulatory hurdles to the ever-shifting landscape of workforce dynamics, today’s nonprofit leaders face a range of challenges that can threaten organizational success—or keep them up at night. This session offers a conversation on risk, resilience, and proactive strategies to help your organization navigate uncertainty and thrive.

Key discussion areas will include:

• Understanding and managing regulatory compliance to reduce organizational vulnerability.
• Addressing human resources and employment issues that impact culture, retention, and legal exposure.
• Navigating governance challenges—from board management and financial oversight to real-life audit lessons.
• Adapting to change, including technology shifts, generational transitions, and the political environment.

Development practices used by nonprofits for years—gift tables, traditional “moves management,” board “give and get” policies, annual appeals, and even tried and true annual events no longer guarantee current success or future sustainability. 

This workshop will provide strategies and tools to engage your team, your board, and all who are meaningfully connected to your organization in resource generation that is truly relational and focused on planning, problem solving and achieving impact together. 

We’ll focus on strategies to:

• Find new donors and diversify your funding.
• Facilitate board engagement in fundraising that reflects each board member’s “superpowers.”
• Solicit gifts of noncash assets and have the resources at hand to accept them seamlessly.
• Leverage the wealth transfer by understanding how to ask for, accept and steward a legacy gift.

As an executive, your greatest challenge, and opportunity, is making every moment count. In this dynamic, actionable session, Joe Mechlinski reveals how AI has become his strategic partner in reclaiming hundreds of productive hours per year, enhancing team effectiveness, and dramatically improving organizational results. You’ll discover proven frameworks from SHIFT and Atlas for seamlessly integrating AI into your daily operations, mastering the psychology of organizational change, and transforming your business into a highly agile, AI-driven enterprise.

Key Takeaways:

• Rapidly Increase Your Organization’s Capacity
  Learn how executives are harnessing AI to eliminate repetitive tasks, freeing up 10–50% of their team’s productive hours, allowing a strategic refocus on high-impact initiatives.
• Effectively Lead Organizational Change and AI Adoption
  Master proven strategies for overcoming common resistance, from fear and skepticism to inertia, helping your people shift from seeing AI as disruption to embracing it as a transformative competitive advantage.
• Immediate AI Integration Framework & Tools
  Gain practical frameworks, powerful prompts, and specific AI resources you can immediately apply, dramatically boosting individual and team productivity, strategic focus, and business outcomes over the next 12 months.