D02: Your Leadership, Your Reflective Practice
Track
Leading Change in Philanthropy
Session Designer
Hanh Le, Exponent Philanthropy
Session Description
As philanthropy practitioners, we are continually mastering two disciplines. We may come ready to put our content expertise to work but then encounter challenges that can’t be solved by expertise alone. Often times, these are challenges that can’t be addressed by just finding the right knowledge or skills — they require us to change behavior, practices and how we approach our work. In order to address these more complex challenges, we need all grantmaking staff to also build their capacity for reflective practice — in short, making sure we all have time to think about what we do, what the outcomes are and what we can do differently. Becoming reflective learners helps us get to more positive outcomes but requires all of us to utilize a different set of practices, tools and skills. Join this session to help identify the specific practices you and your colleagues can use now and to “test drive” a few practices more commonly used in other fields. Speakers will also share learnings from an ongoing project that is seeking to answer the question, “What if reflective practice was philanthropy’s second discipline?”
Session Designers
Hanh Le, Exponent Philanthropy
Speakers
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Jan Jaffe, The Giving Practice
Biography
Jaffe is a senior partner at The Giving Practice. Her consulting focus is on strategy, onboarding and professional development as organizational learning tools, and executive coaching. She's been a life-long student of how we grow and learn the 80% that can’t be specified on the job. She was at the Ford Foundation for 30 years making PRIs, running learning exchanges for Program staff, and creating GrantCraft – peer-driven guides to the practical wisdom behind good grant making (now at the Foundation Center and www.grantcraft.org).
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Janis Reischmann, Hau`oli Mau Loa Foundation
Biography
Janis is currently the executive director of Hau‘oli Mau Loa Foundation, an independent grantmaking foundation with offices in Honolulu. She has served in this capacity since April 2008 and was hired as the Foundation’s first staff member. In this capacity she has overseen all aspects of the development of the Foundation’s grantmaking and operations, working closely with its board of directors. In 2011, Janis was asked to serve as a member of the Foundation’s board. The Foundation makes grants primarily in Hawai‘i but also has a small international grantmaking program. Most of its grantmaking is focused on children and environmental issues. Currently the Foundation has a full time staff of five. Janis brings to her role more than twenty-five years of work in the nonprofit sector. She was the vice president for Hawai`i’s statewide community foundation overseeing its grantmaking and private foundation services and led a consulting firm specializing in organizational and project development. She served as adjunct faculty at the University of Hawai‘i, Myron B. Thompson, School of Social Work where she taught community development. She has masters degrees in social work and business administration, both from the University of Hawai‘i. Among her volunteer activities she was a founding member of the Women’s Fund of Hawai‘i; serves on the advisory board of Queen Lili‘uokalani Children’s Center; serves as a member of the board of the Keith and Judy Swayne Foundation; and is on the Board of Exponent Philanthropy.