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Learning for Good | L&D Solutions and Leadership Development for Nonprofit Organizations

Heather Burright, Learning and Development Leader, Leadership Development Consultant, Instructional Designer.

As nonprofit learning and development leaders, we want a seat at the table. We want to be viewed as true business partners who can help solve problems. We want to create meaningful learning solutions that fit in the flow of work and yield real results for the organization and for the staff.That"s why in this podcast, we will not only explore instructional design and leadership development best practices, but we will also explore change management, belonging, and influence - helping you build the

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10:17

Three Non-Training Solutions that Improve Staff...

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2025/06/09

Improving staff accountability doesn’t always require a training program. In fact, some of the most effective strategies for nonprofit leadership development and team performance don’t involve training at all. In this episode of Learning for Good, I share three powerful non-training solutions to boost accountability, enhance team culture, and drive consistent performance across teams. Whether you're facing missed deadlines, inconsistent follow-through, or simply want to elevate your team’s ef...

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64:04

Want to Work in Nonprofit L&D? Here’s What You Should...

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2025/06/02

Are you curious about what a career in nonprofit Learning and Development looks like across different types of organizations? In this episode of Learning for Good, we explore the real-life journeys of two nonprofit L&D leaders - Eric Wu, formerly of Northwestern University, and Matt Tod of Plan International Canada. You’ll get an inside look at what Learning and Development roles actually look like in two very different nonprofit settings and honest advice if you’re looking to make the tr...

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8:06

Can Training Improve Collaboration in Nonprofits? A...

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2025/05/26

Employees spend 42% of their time collaborating with others. That’s almost half of their time. But are they any good at it? Or are there challenges around collaboration? And if there are challenges, what can we do about them? Most people would say collaboration is important for their work, but we're less likely to do it when it feels challenging. And when there's conflict, we're less likely to do it then, too. Can training help? That’s what we’re exploring in this episode. ▶️ How Trai...

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10:40

Being a Strategic Learning Partner & The Biggest...

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2025/05/19

What does it mean to be a good partner in Learning and Development? That’s what we’re exploring in this episode, but we’re doing it from the truest sense of the word partner. I think one of the biggest mistakes we make is that we focus on the actions we need to take to be a good partner. And while actions are important, I don't want a list of actions today. I want us to look at the attributes or the characteristics of being a good partner. ▶️ Being a Strategic Learning Partner & T...

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35:28

Cross-Sector Coaching: Enhancing Nonprofit Leadership...

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2025/05/12

All too often, new managers have no training, peer group, or support. Then, when they fail or burnout, we say they weren’t management material. We can and we should do more to support new managers. When Cru, a faith-based nonprofit, faced this exact challenge, they decided to offer a coaching program to their emerging leaders. This coaching program would bring in business leaders from outside their organization and engage them as coaches, creating cross-sector support, cross-sector relationsh...

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11:26

Using Learning to Create Behavior Change | Lessons...

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2025/05/05

When we create learning solutions, what we really want is to create a new behavior or change behavior in some way. So, what does it take to create a new behavior? On this episode of Learning for Good, I’m sharing lessons from behavior change experts Charles Duhigg, James Clear, and BJ Fogg. Then, I’m going to take those behavior change lessons and translate them into workplace learning. ▶️ Using Learning to Create Behavior Change | Lessons from the Experts ▶️ Key Points: 00:58...

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36:24

Working across Generations? Three Things L&D Needs to...

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2025/04/28

Our world is constantly evolving, and because of that, our experiences across generations are different. Because our experiences are different, our perspectives are different, and because our perspectives are different, our actions are also different. All of those experiences, perspectives, and actions impact our workplaces, which is why L&D needs to get to know our audiences. In this episode, I've invited Kat Landa to talk to us about generational differences in the workplace. Kat ...

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67:45

Curious about Working in Nonprofit? Get an Inside...

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2025/04/21

I often get questions about working in nonprofit, so I launched Career Conversations - a series of LinkedIn Live conversations with people currently in nonprofit L&D roles. We are talking about their organizations, teams, and personal career journeys. Today, I’m bringing two of these conversations to you. We’re hearing from Nadra Dennis, the learning and talent development director at the Center for Employment Opportunities, and Dr. Jaimie Hoffman, the senior director of learning and deve...

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9:34

If You've Never Conducted a Training Needs Analysis,...

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2025/04/14

Understanding your training audience may be the best thing you can do as an instructional designer. Yet, many of us have never been taught how to conduct a training needs analysis. On this episode of Learning for Good, I want to talk about what you should be learning about your audience. What do you actually need to know? Tune in to find out. ▶️ If You've Never Conducted a Training Needs Analysis, Listen to This ▶️ Key Points: 02:11 Understanding your training audience to intentiona...

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10:23

3 Ways to Identify Training Audience Needs

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2025/04/07

In L&D, when we are approached with a training request, it's our job to do a little research for ourselves about training audience needs. Often, the time you have to do this research is limited. Your capacity and the capacity of your subject matter expert is limited, and you may not even feel like you have the expertise to do the analysis. So how can you validate the audience's needs with limited time, capacity, and expertise? On this episode, I’m sharing three ways you can identify train...

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29:42

Fixed vs. Growth Mindset: The Key to Stronger...

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2025/03/31

The fear of failure impacts our learners’ ability to learn, so we need to help them move to a growth mindset. A growth mindset is a place where it's okay to try new things, fail, and continue to show up and be persistent even in the face of failure. For this episode, I've invited certified professional coach, consultant, and learning facilitator Kim Andrews to talk about the growth mindset. I want us to think about how we help our learners learn and strengthen nonprofit leadership. The growth...

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11:30

How to Conduct a Training Project Debrief

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2025/03/24

Do you take the time to intentionally reflect after a training project ends? Reflection is powerful and it's something we often do, but it's not something we often do with intentionality. That’s why on this episode of Learning for Good, I want to share the seven steps I follow each time I close out a training project and why they set you up for success later. This training project debrief is really a time of reflection. ▶️ How to Conduct a Training Project Debrief ▶️ Key Poin...

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32:09

Small L&D Team? How One Nonprofit University Uses...

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2025/03/17

If you are looking to transition to L&D, your experience matters! Volunteering can help you fill in the gaps. This is exactly what Dr. Ashley Dugger is here to talk about. Ashley engages volunteers in her organization to help increase the capacity of her team. It also gives those volunteers a chance to deepen their skills in instructional design. So whether you're a small L&D team looking to expand the capacity of your team by using volunteers, or if you're someone who's looking...

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8:21

My 4-Step Process to Write Better Learning Objectives

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2025/03/10

In this episode, I want to share my 4-step process to write better learning objectives. What do I mean by better? This is not a lesson on making them SMART (specific, measurable, actionable, relevant, and timely) though that is important. This is about the actual process I go through when writing objectives. This thought process is what gets me to action-oriented, performance-related objectives that drive behavior change. ▶️ My 4-Step Process to Write Better Learning Objectives ...

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10:13

Are Your Learners Bored? How Building a Learner...

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2025/03/03

Are your learners bored? So often our training audience attends training that isn't relevant or engaging, contains so much extra information they feel lost, or the included scenarios make no sense for them and their role. Context is one of the most important things in creating effective learning. That’s why in this episode, I want us to explore learner personas. What are they? Why are they important? And how do we build them? ▶️ Are Your Learners Bored? How Building a Learner Persona...

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26:51

How Building Your Personal Board of Directors Will...

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2025/02/24

What’s the value of an outside perspective? An outside perspective will help you be more consistent, improve your awareness and confidence, and accelerate your career because they can see the things you can't. This is true in all areas of life, including your career. That’s why on today’s episode, I'm talking to self-proclaimed nonprofit nerd, Jarrett Ransom, about how to create a personal board of directors to help you thrive in your career. Jarrett established her consulting fir...

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23:55

3 Components of Leadership Development | What...

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2025/02/17

A lot of what we do in Learning and Development is not life and death. We often have the freedom to experiment with new ideas in our nonprofit training and while we want the best possible outcome, we can feel safe to fail. This is not the case in every industry. In this episode I want us to take some time to learn from another industry - the aviation industry - with leadership development expert Craig Coyle. Craig is a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy and a former U.S. Army Apache pilot....

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32:52

Improving the Health of Your Nonprofit through People...

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2025/02/10

People managers have a hard job. They have to set goals, manage resources, support real humans who are not always easy to support, and keep everything moving on time and within budget so the organization can meet its goals. That’s why I’ve invited Kamaria Scott, an I/O psychologist focused on people manager development and enablement, to join me on this episode. She’s sharing how you can improve the health of your organization by investing in your people managers. ▶️ Improving the H...

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20:14

The Business Case for Mentoring - What's the Value?...

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2025/02/03

We know the impact a good mentor can have. Yet, according to a Forbes article, only 37% of professionals have a mentor. This means there are still many people out there who aren't benefiting from this type of relationship. How do we know when to create a mentoring program? And if we look at the needs and determine we should create one, how do we create the buy-in we need for it? That’s what we’re exploring today with L&D expert, Neil Cunningham. ▶️ The Business Case for Mentoring...

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35:06

The Belonging Blueprint: How to Create Connection...

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2025/01/27

While work may never be the top place you feel belonging, it can be a place where you can be yourself, where you can feel safe, and where you can feel connected to your work and team. However, this doesn’t happen organically, we have to work to create a space like this.That’s why in this episode, leadership and mindset coach Abigail Finck is sharing the Belonging Blueprint - a tested method for creating connection among your teams.▶️ The Belonging Blueprint: How to Create Connection among You...

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