At a New Year’s concert, a single lyric—“Put me in, coach”—became an unexpected invitation to reflect on burnout, rest, and what it means to return to work differently. Executive Principal Taryn Deaton shares how taking a sabbatical helped restore her capacity for nonprofit leadership and why sustainable change in the nonprofit sector depends on leaders who are willing to rest as seriously as they work.
Read MoreA sabbatical is an opportunity to test your organization’s resilience. If one person’s absence causes everything to grind to a halt, that’s not a people problem—it’s a systems problem.
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