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The Nonprofit Partnership
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Event Registration
| Ticket Type | Price |
|---|---|
| Early Bird Member Rate (11/20/26) | $90 |
| Early Bird Regular Rate (11/20/26) | $110 |
| TNP Member Rate | $100 |
| Regular Rate | $130 |
| LACDAC Grantee (No Payment Due--Please Select Payment Method "Cash") | $130 |
Event Details
Rewiring Change: The Neuroscience of Leading Through Transformation
Change isn't just something nonprofits implement. It's something people have to process.
Nonprofit organizations are constantly navigating change—funding shifts, evolving community needs, staffing challenges, new technology, policy changes, partnerships, and growing demands with limited resources. Even when change is necessary, people may experience uncertainty, fatigue, resistance, or disengagement.
Rewiring Change helps nonprofit leaders understand the human side of transformation and develop practical strategies for moving people from uncertainty to action.
Using Kotter’s 8-Step Change Model + neuroscience + real-world nonprofit application, participants explore how leaders can create urgency without panic, build trust, communicate purpose, remove barriers, and sustain momentum—while keeping the organization's mission at the center.
Key Learnings
Participants will learn how to:
- Understand the brain during change — Recognize how uncertainty, stress, workload, and ambiguity influence employee engagement and decision-making.
- Create urgency without creating burnout — Communicate the why, now, and impact while protecting the people responsible for delivering the mission.
- Build a coalition for change — Identify champions, influencers, subject-matter experts, skeptics, and key stakeholders across the organization.
- Connect change to mission — Help employees understand how organizational changes affect the people and communities they serve.
- Turn strategy into everyday behavior — Translate broad initiatives into clear expectations: What does this change mean for my team and my work?
- Engage people instead of simply informing them — Use listening, questions, transparency, and psychological safety to surface concerns and build ownership.
- Identify what's getting in the way — Diagnose barriers involving people, processes, technology, resources, leadership, or competing priorities.
- Create short-term wins — Establish meaningful 30-day indicators of progress that demonstrate momentum and reinforce purpose.
- Lead through change fatigue — Recognize when teams are overloaded and use reinforcement, prioritization, and feedback to sustain capacity.
- Anchor change into the organization — Align leadership behaviors, systems, meetings, recognition, accountability, onboarding, and culture so change becomes sustainable.
Trainer: Dr. Maya Austin, Management Cues
Cancellation policy: We require notice of cancellation at least 48 hours in advance of the class start time. No refunds will be provided for no-shows or late cancellations. LACDAC grantees who register and do not attend will be invoiced directly for the full cost of the course. All registrants are encouraged to send an alternate if unable to attend.
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Dr. Mayra Austin is a management scientist,operator, and the visionary behind ManagementCues—a neuroscience-backed trainingmethodology redefining how managers perform,think, learn and lead in real environments.As CEO & Founder of Management Cues, Dr. Austinhas built a first-of-its-kind approach tomanagement training that moves beyond theoryand into measurable impact. Her work is groundedin the belief that management is not intuitive—it isa skillset that must be trained, practiced, andneurologically reinforced. Through hermethodology, organizations have achieved up to a295% increase in engagement, a 235% boost inmanagerial performance, and a 243% reduction incognitive stress—proving that when managerschange, systems change.With decades of experience as an operationsleader, Dr. Austin has led across complexenvironments where execution, equity, andperformance intersect. She identified a critical gapin the workforce: an overemphasis on leadershipdevelopment without the infrastructure to buildtactical management mastery. Management Cueswas created to close that gap—equippingmanagers with real-time tools, cognitiveawareness, and structured decision-makingframeworks that translate directly into outcomes.
