Tailwinds: Ideas Fueling Nonprofit Innovators and Social Entrepreneurs
Tailwinds is a project that brings momentum to the leaders tackling the world’s most impossible problems.
Created by Flying Whale Strategies, the show delivers ideas, insight, and energy to the people doing work that often feels impossible.
Each episode features brass tacks strategy that can be implemented tomorrow. Hillary Frances interviews social sector leaders who are in the messy middle of building their organizations. And since we are talking about bold solutions to intractable problems, she also brings in insight from the for-profit world.
Tailwinds: Ideas Fueling Nonprofit Innovators and Social Entrepreneurs
Latest Episodes
How to lead anti-racism work your team actually wants to do
Nonprofit leaders often dread anti-racism work. It's a two-day retreat, a book club, a list of behavioral expectations — and it leaves us feeling raw, anxious, or stuck in our heads. What if that's not a personal failing, but a process problem?...
Shifting the role of the board when it's time
If you've ever lost sleep over your board, there might be a structural reason for it — one that goes all the way back to the colonial era. Hillary shares her latest learning from helping organizations make board governance shifts.Hillary...
How to answer the scale question
Nonprofits are asked constantly to plan for scale, and most of us answer with ambitions to get bigger. But what if the right answer has nothing to do with size?Hillary reframes the scale question entirely: scale isn't about growth, it's ...
What If nonprofits had product designers?
The for-profit world has product engineers, design sprints, and rapid iteration cycles. The nonprofit sector has… a debrief meeting. In this episode, Hillary asks what would happen if we closed that gap.Hillary breaks down what a "produc...
How to build a less hierarchical org chart
Description: The nonprofit sector is drawn to the idea of flat org charts — but most organizations don't have great examples of what that actually looks like in practice. Why do we cling to hierarchy even when it conflicts with the value...