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 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 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...
by George Liacos | Feb 3, 2025 | Spark Change, SparkUP! Newsletters, Strategic Planning, Strategic Thinking
Author: George Liacos The Future of Giving and how it will change your Strategic Planning If we want to understand the future of giving we just need to look at the news we receive a little differently, it can tell us a new story … Let me share what I mean by an...
by George Liacos | Nov 26, 2024 | Not For Profit, Social Impact, SparkUP! Newsletters, Strategic Planning, Strategic Thinking, Sustainability
Strategic planning cycle coming up? Here is a quick checklist of the 7 Strategic Planning Preparation Tips. Whether you are a “Let’s get it done on our planning day with the Board” kind of person or someone who wants to “engage with our stakeholders, bring the team...
by George Liacos | Oct 28, 2024 | Not For Profit, Social Impact, SparkUP! Newsletters, Strategic Planning, Strategic Thinking, Sustainability
Author: George Liacos Ah, strategic planning! The mystical process where well-meaning folks gather in a conference room armed with sticky notes, a pot of coffee strong enough to wake the dead, and a collective belief that they can somehow outsmart the universe. Let’s...
