Your Mission matters.
Your Leadership makes it possible!
Nonprofit leaders are being asked to accomplish more with fewer resources, limited funding, exhausted teams, and growing expectations.
It's time to move from surviving the pressure to leading through it.
A one-day, hands-on leadership summit designed to strengthen your people, your board, and your organization's future.
Nonprofit Leadership Summit 2027
ONLY
$50 per Team
Friday January 15, 2027
Evolving Wellness Conference Center
3712 Spooner Ave.
Altoona, Wi
Receive a FREE Diagnostic Survey
to measure your leadership
Does This Sound Familiar?
Your organization exists to help others. But financial uncertainty, leadership fatigue,
and a disconnected board can make even meaningful work difficult to sustain.
46%
Leader Burnout
Nonprofit CEOs reporting significant concern about their own burnout.
How we'll help →
Build healthier rhythms, set priorities, and strengthen delegation.
39%
Financial Pressure
Nonprofits reporting deficits in fiscal year 2025.
How we'll help →
Communicate your mission to supporters and prepare practical funding contingencies.
36%
Boards Aren't Fully Engaged
Unclear roles, disengagement, and too much responsibility concentrated in too few people.
How we'll help →
Improve board partnership, clarify ownership, and identify emerging leaders.
Statistics: Center for Effective Philanthropy, State of Nonprofits 2026. Figures describe respondents in its survey, not all U.S. nonprofits.
Don't just leave inspired. Leave equipped.
Every session is designed to turn a leadership challenge into a practical next step you can use when you return to your organization.
Leadership snapshot
Identify the leadership area that needs the most attention.
Written 90-day plan
Choose specific priorities, owners, and target dates.
Stronger alignment
Build shared understanding between staff, directors, and board members.
Peer connections
Connect with other nonprofit leaders who understand your challenges.
Bring the People Who Carry the Plan Forward.
Executive directors and board members bring different perspectives to the same mission. This Summit invites them to work side by side on communication, expectations, and ownership—so they leave with shared commitments rather than separate notes.
One day.
Real conversations.
Practical next steps.
OPENING
Your Current Sets the Pace
Recognize how personal leadership habits affect everyone downstream.
SESSION 1
Surviving the Season
Identify what to stop, start, and delegate to lead sustainably through pressure.
SESSION 2
Funding Your Mission
Practice telling your organizations story and begin planning for financial uncetainty.
SESSION 3
Your Board as a Crew
Recognize how personal leadership habits affect everyone downstream.
SESSION 4
Who Carries it Next?
Identifying potential successors and begin building leadership continuity.
CLOSING
Your Next 90 Days
Write three prioities, assign ownership, set clear dates for follow-through.
Seven Rivers Every Leader Must Navigate.
You don't have to master a new vocabulary to benefit. These principles give leaders practical ways to understand challenges and move forward with purpose.
1 · Start within
Mindset
Prepare your thinking before you choose your methods.
2 · Value people
People
See the value in every person and help them contribute.
3 · Influence well
Influence
Lead through the choices and actions that affect others.
4 · Take Responsibility
Ownership
Own your part, your response, and the outcomes you can shape.
5 · See what’s ahead
Vision
Give people direction they can understand and act on.
6 · Keep developing
Growth
Build the skills and habits that make tomorrow better.
7 · Lead with integrity
Character
Earn trust through consistent choices, especially when it’s hard.
A stronger leader. A healthier organization.
A greater impact.
Your nonprofit exists to make a difference. Invest a day in strengthening the
people who make that mission possible.
Friday January 15, 2027
Evolving Wellness Conference Center
3712 Spooner Ave.
Altoona, Wi
Receive a FREE Diagnostic Survey
AND
a FREE Workbook
upon Registration
At 7 Rivers Leadership, John and Wendy Deering understand the unique challenges nonprofit leaders face because they have lived them. Together, they founded and operated a nonprofit organization for six years, with John serving as Executive Director and Wendy as a board member. Wendy also brings more than 20 years of firsthand experience working within nonprofit organizations. As Maxwell Leadership Certified Team members, they combine real-world nonprofit experience with proven leadership development tools to help organizations strengthen communication, build trust, develop leaders, and create healthier cultures. Their approach is practical, relational, and results-driven—helping nonprofit leaders move beyond good intentions to meaningful, lasting transformation.
John & Wendy Deering are independent certified members and are not employees of the Maxwell Leadership Certified Team. We are not in partnership with John Maxwell or the Maxwell Leadership Certified Team. We are members (coach, speaker, trainer, or facilitator), not an employee (e.g., “works at” = employee = not an approved affiliation).
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