Resources

Select Resources on Coaching, Leadership Development, Diversity and Inclusion, Nonprofit Sector, and more:

Articles and Reports:

  • What Are We Waiting For? The Critical Need to Invest in Emerging Nonprofit Leaders by Trish Kerlé. Associations Now, December 2009.
  • Coaching Strengthens Nonprofit Leaders and Their Organizations by Carolyn Curran. Journal for Nonprofit Management, 2008.
  • A Leader's Guide to Effective Coaching by David Coleman. The Nonprofit Quarterly, Spring 2008.
  • Leadership Development: A Review in Context by David Day. Leadership Quarterly, vol. 11:4, 2001.
  • Leadership Development: Past, Present and Future by Gina Hernez-Broome and Richard Hughes. Human Resource Planning, vol. 27:1, 2004.
  • Strengthening Nonprofit Minority Leadership and the Capacity of Minority-Led and Other Grassroots Community-Based Organizations by the Foundation Coalition (of California). 2008.

Books:

  • Community: The Structure of Belonging by Peter Block. Berrett-Koehler, 2008.
  • The Diamond Cutter: The Buddha on Strategies for Managing Your Business and Your Life by Michael Roach. Doubleday, 2000.
  • Embracing Cultural Competency: A Roadmap for Nonprofit Capacity Builders, Lead author - Patricia St. Onge. Fieldstone Alliance, 2009.
  • Executive Coaching with Backbone and Heart by Mary Beth O'Neill. Jossey-Bass, 2007.
  • Fierce Conversations: Achieving Success at Work and in Life One Conversation at a Time by Susan Scott. Berkley Trade, 2004.
  • Leadership and the New Science: Discovering Order in a Chaotic World by Margaret Wheatley. Berrett-Koehler, 1997.
  • The Leadership Challenge by James Kouzes and Barry Posner.  Jossey-Bass, 1995.
  • The Leadership Odyssey: A Self-Development Guide to New Skills for New Times by Carole Napolitano and Lida Henderson. Jossey-Bass, 1998.
  • The Leadership Pipeline: How to Build the Leadership Powered Company by Ram Charan, Stephen Drotter and James Noel. Jossey-Bass, 2000.
  • Leadership Presence by Belle Halpern and Kathy Lubar. Gotham, 2004.
  • Masterful Coaching by Robert Hargrove. Jossey-Bass/Pfeiffer, 2003.
  • On Becoming a Person by Carl Rogers. Houghton Mifflin, 1961.
  • Primal Leadership: Learning to Lead with Emotional Intelligence by David Goldman, Richard Boyatzis and Annie McKee. Harvard Business School Press, 2002.
  • Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity by Erving Goffman. Prentice-Hall, Inc. 1963.
  • Transitions: Making Sense of Life's Changes by William Bridges. Da Capo Press, 2004.
  • Understanding White Privilege: Creating Pathways to Authentic Relationships Across Race by Frances E. Kendall. Rouledge, 2006.
  • White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son by Tim Wise. Soft Skull Press, 2008.

Organizations, Foundations, and more (some offer excellent free reports to non-members):