Are You Focusing on the Details, Problems and Drama of Running Your Organization Rather

Attention: Over-Stretched Executive Directors Are you focusing on the details, problems and drama of running your organization rather than on vision and strategy?

Are you more often frustrated, stressed and exhausted, than energized and excited about your work?

The Foundation for MetroWest is delighted to partner with Fredia Woolf to offer Leading with Ease: Secrets of Sustainable Leadership again this fall.

This six session series will explore the three essential components of Sustainable Leadership - Excellence, Effectiveness, and Ease. The sessions are designed to help you to:  Identify your most important goals and streamline a path to accomplishing them  Be more productive and efficient in your time and energy management – by de-cluttering your day, de-escalating your stress levels, and delegating some of your to-do's  Enhance your leadership confidence and presence, through greater awareness and exercise of strategic choices  Effectively engage your stakeholders (funders, staff, volunteers and peers) in supporting you in your mission  Understand and proactively build your own, and your organization's, brand  Build a powerful peer network, for long term sustainability Applying the principles of strategic planning and leadership development to your own situation, you could discover a fresh perspective, that can turn around the impediments to your success. Through her proven Look Five Ways © process, Fredia Woolf, Principal of Woolf Consulting, has helped many people just like you to develop a clear-eyed, uncluttered new approach.

Begins: September 20, 2016* When: Tuesdays, 8:30am - 10:30am Location: Foundation for MetroWest - 3 Eliot Street, Natick, MA 01760

Applications are due by August 15, 2016. Executive Directors from MetroWest nonprofits are welcome to apply. For more information, visit our website at www.foundationformetrowest.org To apply, please visit

In order for this to be a truly beneficial working group we are limiting the number of participants. We will be contacting applicants about acceptance by September 1st. There is no charge to participate.

 Continued on back Questions? Please call us at 508.647.2260 or contact Jennifer Ubaldino at [email protected] or Caroline Murphy at [email protected]

What past participants have said about our Leadership Development Series:

"I feel more empowered and confident as a leader."

"Exceeded my expectations in what value it provided to me in managing my work. The practical tools and strategies for coping with running a small, challenging organization are already helping me and my organization. I hope to build off of them for even more benefit."

"The opportunity to network with other Executive Directors and share challenges and insights was unique and empowering; the tools Fredia gave us are going to be very useful in my work life - and my personal life."

"Taking the time to step away from work (and life) and think about what I want to achieve - and to be given the tools to make it possible - has been a gift."

Session 1: September 20, 2016 A baseline assessment of where you are and what's stopping you from getting to where you want to be. Introduction to the Look 5 Ways framework and course textbook: Finding the Space to Lead-- A Practical Guide to Mindful Leadership by Janice Marturano.

Session 2: October 11, 2016 Look In: Uncovering strengths, weaknesses, drivers and values of the leader and the organization.

Session 3: November 1, 2016 Look Out: Analyzing all stakeholders and how to communicate most effectively with them.

Session 4: November 22, 2016 Look Forward: Creating a vision for yourself and your organization. Setting goals and intentions.

Session 5: December 13, 2016 Look at Gaps: Exploring the disconnects that cause struggle and strife.

Session 6: January 10, 2017 Look at Results: How to Lead with E's- increased Excellence, Effectiveness and Ease.

To apply, please visit 3 Eliot Street, Natick www.foundationformetrowest.org 508.647.2260