D3: Leadership and Learning: Two Sides of the Same Coin
Session Designer
Marilyn Darling, Fourth Quadrant Partners
Session Description
Being a learning organization is not easy, but it does not need to be as complicated as we make it. We make learning complicated by seeing it as something separate or something that takes precious time away from the task at hand. By adopting a set of tools and a philosophy about leading, we can serve our supervision, leadership, learning and self-evaluation abilities equally well. Hear from one nonprofit leader who sees her responsibility for leadership and learning as two sides of the same coin, and engage in a conversation with your peers about how to bring your leadership and learning agendas closer together and help your grantees do the same.
Conference Theme
Evaluation and Learning
Speakers
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Marilyn Darling, Fourth Quadrant Partners
Title
Speaker Biography
Marilyn Darling is a founding partner of Signet Research & Consulting and a founding member of the Society for Organizational Learning. She works with foundations and nonprofits, identifying learning priorities and developing learning agendas and supports peer learning and communities of practice using the tools of Emergent Learning. She and her partners have conducted in-depth research into the best practice use of Before- and After-Action Reviews by the organization that created them over 30 years ago. In 2010, Darling completed a research report: “A Compass in the Woods: Learning through Grantmaking to Improve Impact.”
![[photo]](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/155d3f5c1ac69b33733e4b890c7a3405.png?d=https://proposalspace.com/images/no_photo.png&r=PG&s=50 "Becky James-Hatter, Big Brothers Big Sisters Eastern Missouri")
Becky James-Hatter, Big Brothers Big Sisters Eastern Missouri
Title
CEO
Speaker Biography
Becky James-Hatter has served for the past 17 years as the president and CEO of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Eastern Missouri. Under her leadership, the agency has grown from serving 300 children annually to serving approximately 2,800 children annually. Prior to moving to St. Louis, she was the vice president of programs for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Atlanta, the largest agency in the country at the time. She is also the founder of the Central Louisiana chapter of Big Brothers Big Sisters.
In 2006, James-Hatter was a graduate of Leadership St. Louis and Leadership Missouri and was appointed to the Missouri Community Service Commission by governor Matt Blunt. She is a Louisiana native and holds a bachelor’s in education from Northwestern State University. She resides in St. Louis Hills with her husband, Bill.