Marc Pitman
Concord Leadership Group founder Marc A. Pitman, CSP, helps leaders lead their teams with more effectiveness and less stress. Whether it’s through one-on-one coaching of executives, conducting high-engagement trainings or growing leaders through his ICF-accredited coach certification program, his clients grow in stability and effectiveness.
He is the author of “The Surprising Gift of Doubt: Use Uncertainty to Become the Exceptional Leader You Are Meant to Be” He’s also the author of “Ask Without Fear!”— which has been translated into Dutch, Polish, Spanish and Mandarin. A FranklinCovey-certified coach and Exactly What To Say Certified Guide, Marc’s expertise and enthusiasm engages audiences around the world both in person and with online presentations.
He is the husband to his best friend and the father of three amazing kids. And if you drive by him on the road, he’ll be singing ’80s tunes loud enough to embarrass his family!
Does it ever feel like your employees are creating more work? Here’s a story that helped me train my direct reports to stop doing it.
Since leading a nonprofit involves many moving targets, a Spice Girls song may help you remember to build up the people around you.
It’s essential for leaders to give themselves the same kindness and understanding they give their team members.
There may be an easy and powerful key to uniting your team’s expectations with your organization’s need to get work done: curiosity.
Here are three steps to ensure you’re setting realistic quarterly fundraising goals for the rest of 2023.
Leadership gets easier as you plan for the critical conversations you have daily. Having some phrases and questions ready will help you and your team move forward.
Find it hard to work with some of the staff you hired during the pandemic? Here are ideas to help these members adjust post-pandemic.
Development opportunities for employees can be done with a few, easy-to-implement strategies and on a shoestring budget.
Many nonprofit leaders tend to think of leading as something they do to others. Of course, it is necessary to lead the people you have been promoted to oversee. But, in reality, leaders need to lead in three areas, not just one.
The overwhelm can seem close to immobilizing. Leaders always need to make decisions. But this year, the amount of decision-making required to lead feels crushing. So much so that many nonprofit leaders are delaying big decisions.













