Establishing Strategic Clarity in Uncertain Times: What Holds, What Shifts!
Thursday, October 23, 2025
9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Via Zoom
Virtual Workshop Via Zoom
Individual Members: No Additional Fee
Organizational Members: No Additional Fee
Non-Members: $55
About this event
Overview:
Many nonprofit leaders are feeling the strain of federal funding delays, political uncertainty, and shifting expectations from partners and funders. Strategic plans written even a year ago may feel out of step—or hard to act on. And for those without a plan in place, it can be difficult to know where to focus when so much feels unstable. This interactive workshop is designed to deliver practical guidance that will help leaders step back, take stock, and make thoughtful decisions about how to gain strategic clarity and move their mission forward.
Learning Outcomes:
Whether you're following a formal strategic plan or leading through less-structured strategy work, this session will offer practical ways to:
- Reassess your current priorities and plans
- Identify what’s essential to protect—and what may need to shift
- Engage your board and staff in meaningful, productive conversations about change
You'll leave with simple tools you can use right away, and a fresh perspective on how to lead with clarity—even when the path ahead is uncertain.
Audience:
This session is ideal for executive directors, senior staff, and board leaders who are navigating organizational strategy in the midst of ongoing change.
Faculty
Jennifer Lobenhofer
As the principal at JSL community Strategies, Jennifer Lobenhofer guides mission-driven organizations in envisioning, planning, achieving, and measuring their greatest imaginable impact on the communities they serve. She has more than twenty years of experience providing capacity-building education, facilitation, and consulting to organizations in the public and nonprofit sectors, and her current consulting practice focuses on providing strategic planning and program evaluation support to nonprofit organizations.
Two decades ago, Jennifer began her career examining the outcomes of pilot programs demonstrating promising new responses to affordable housing and community development needs. She then directed a statewide community and economic development training and advising program for local government officials. Those combined experiences led her to the realization that nonprofit organizations engage in the most meaningful policy implementation, innovation, and “heavy lifting” of creating real social change in communities, and that they all too frequently face significant capacity challenges in maximizing their impact. Since then, Jennifer has dedicated herself to the belief that the greatest good can only be accomplished if it is done well, and she has built her consulting practice on that foundational philosophy.
Jennifer holds a Master of City and Regional Planning degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She lives in Thousand Oaks, California, where she enjoys choral singing, attending live theatre, wine tasting, and creating handmade greeting cards.