by George Liacos | Jul 3, 2025 | Spark Change, SparkUP! Newsletters, Strategic Planning, Strategic Thinking
Building Purpose, Clarity, and Real-World Change through Strategic Impact Measurement It’s July, a time when many education sector nonprofits take a collective pause, reflect on the financial year just gone, and sharpen their focus for what lies ahead. In the spirit...
by George Liacos | Jul 1, 2025 | Current Events, Education, Shared Value, Social Impact, Spark Change, SparkUP! Newsletters, Strategic Planning, Strategic Thinking
5 Insights and your moves before term 3 Author: George Liacos Insight #1: Canberra’s New Money Comes With New Strings Education Strategic Planning may seem sometime just too hard. This wonderful slow motion roller coaster. On Budget night the Treasurer trumpeted the...
by George Liacos | Jun 4, 2025 | Business Models, Not For Profit, Operating Models, SparkUP! Newsletters, Sustainability
Author: Ankur Sadhwani In the not-for-profit space, complexity tends to creep in quietly. As organisations grow and take on more initiatives and well-meaning changes, new roles, processes, and systems, often accumulate. Over time, this results in duplication,...
by George Liacos | Jun 3, 2025 | Spark Change, SparkUP! Newsletters, Strategic Planning, Strategic Thinking
Author: Celeste Halliday The Leadership Paradox That’s Quietly Undermining Everything You’ve Built I’ve been thinking about a conversation I had last week with a CEO who told me something that stopped me in my tracks: “We have brilliant people,...
by George Liacos | Jun 3, 2025 | Social Impact, SparkUP! Newsletters
Court Network has long been a quiet force in the Victorian and Queensland justice systems — not through legal power or courtroom theatrics, but through human connection. Their model is simple and powerful: volunteers with a deep desire to serve, support people going...
by George Liacos | Jun 2, 2025 | Spark Change, SparkUP! Newsletters, Strategic Planning, Strategic Thinking
Author: George Liacos Not for Profit Strategic plans don’t usually blow up. They fade. They stall. They quietly slide into irrelevance while leaders stay too busy to notice. This is the uncomfortable truth facing many not for profit leaders. We spend months building...
