Resources

Tools, insights, and spaces to help you lead systems change with more clarity—and less burnout.

This work is complex, beautiful, and exhausting. These resources are here to ground you, guide your next move, and connect you with others doing the work differently.

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Thirty Years From Now: A Meditation for Systems Leaders

This guided meditation is for the visionaries—the leaders holding complexity, possibility, and the long arc of systems change in their communities. Whether you’re leading a backbone organization, collective impact initiative, or place-based partnership, this practice will help you reconnect with your deeper “why” and imagine the long-term future your work is building toward.

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Your Strategy Snapshot: A Systems Tool for Individual & Organizational Strategy

Whether you’re navigating a leadership transition, aligning a multi-partner initiative, or trying to make sense of complexity, Your Strategy Snapshot is here to help. This tool is built around the Key Driver Diagram—a visual framework that helps connect long-term goals to the conditions and actions required to get there. It’s simple enough to use solo and powerful enough to facilitate clarity across your whole team.

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The Backbone Resilience Playbook

In this free guide, you'll find 29 Must-Ask Questions for Creating Enduring Impact! These questions will guide you to reflect on your organization’s strengths and where there are opportunities to shore up your work.

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Short, strategic posts to help you lead collaborative work with more clarity, capacity, and calm.

From real talk on leadership transitions to tools for aligned facilitation—we write for the people holding systems change from the middle.

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The Collective Shift Book Club!!

The Collective Shift Book Club (CSBC) is a place to build community and make connections with other changemakers, deepen your learning on topics related to social change, and collectively work through approaches and challenges in social impact work (oh! and have some fun too!).

Redraw Your Path (Podcast)

Stories from mission-driven leaders creating systems change in ways that are strategic, sustainable, and deeply human.

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