Leading While Neurodivergent: Redefining Leadership Norms in Fundraising [DPP Lunch Analysis]

​What does leadership look like when your brain doesn't work like everyone else's—and you stop pretending that it does? Join Nicole Bela as she explores the realities of being a neurodivergent leader in the fundraising sector: the strengths we bring, the systems that wear us down, and the ways we can redefine what effective leadership looks like.

​This session is designed with inclusion in mind. If it helps to receive slides in advance or you'd like to request a specific accommodation, we invite you to let us know ahead of time. While the speaker is not a clinical expert, she brings lived experience and is committed to creating a space that respects diverse learning styles, comfort levels, and the unique needs of neurodivergent professionals.

​Key Takeaways:

• ​Understand the unique strengths neurodivergent professionals bring to leadership roles in fundraising

• ​Identify systemic barriers that can impede neurodivergent professionals and practical solutions to address them

• ​Learn strategies for creating more inclusive fundraising teams that leverage diverse thinking styles

• ​Discover how neurodivergent perspectives can drive innovation and fresh approaches to donor engagement

​About: The Donor Participation Project (DPP) is a community of fundraisers who co-create solutions to reverse the nationwide decline in donor participation (20 million US households lost between 2000-2016).

• ​​This event will take place over Zoom.

• ​​The session will be recorded and accessible post-event for DPP members only.