Executive Roundtable: Solutions Salon

825 Washington Avenue SE,Minneapolis MN 55414

17 August, 2022

Description

MINN's quarterly Executive Roundtables bring together executive or mid-level nonprofit leaders to share successes and find solutions to common problems. A Solutions Salon is an opportunity to connect, share, and learn through structured and facilitated roundtable discussions. Participants will be divided into small groups to discuss common challenges and brainstorm potential solutions. At the end of each discussion, all groups will convene to share key insights, resources, and lessons learned. From this event, participants will: Expand resources and ideas to address a specific problem they are seeking assistance with. Grow and deepen their peer network, including potential programmatic partners. Participants should come prepared to share a challenge they are currently experiencing that others can provide input/insight into. Facilitator: Jill LaLonde is the Executive Director of OneVillage Partners, a Minnesota-based international NGO that implements community-led development projects in Sierra Leone. She also serves as Adjunct Faculty at Saint Mary's University of Minnesota in the International Development program and at University of Nebraska-Lincoln in the Global Studies Department. Jill has more than 15 years of experience in the international development and nonprofit sectors, ranging from Gates-funded public health research in Northern Uganda to managing multi-million dollar USAID-funded projects across Africa, Asia and the Middle East. Jill holds a BA in Psychology from the University of Minnesota and an MSc in Development Studies from the London School of Economics.