Working Session: Steady Ground: Sustaining Mission, Partnership & Smart Decisions in Uncertain Times
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Working Session: Steady Ground: Sustaining Mission, Partnership & Smart Decisions in Uncertain Times
Date:
December 2, 2026
Time:
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM EST
Registration:
Register Now
Event Description:
Funding and revenue pressure. Teams stretched thinner every quarter. Decisions that used to be deferrable and no longer are. Whether you lead a nonprofit or run a small business, you are likely navigating the same undertow right now, and too often navigating it alone.
Steady Ground is a practical, interactive session that gives you a shared language and simple tools for three things happening at once: naming where your capacity is strained and what could relieve it, treating partnership and collaboration as a real strategic option rather than a last resort, and making hard decisions with a clear process you can stand behind.
The session is built on Abundance Leadership Consulting’s F.A.B.R.I.C.™ framework, originally developed for ALC’s nonprofit mergers & acquisitions practice and adapted here as a decision lens any organization can use. This is a working session, not a lecture: about half the time you’ll be applying the tools to your own organization. Nonprofit and small business leaders sit together at every table, so you’ll leave with ideas and connections you wouldn’t find inside your own sector.
Who Should Attend
• Executive directors, CEOs, and senior staff of nonprofits
• Small business owners and managers
• Board members and owners weighing a significant change
• Anyone curious whether a partnership, shared service, or merger could strengthen their organization
What You’ll Walk Away With
• A clear picture of where your capacity is most strained, and one realistic way to relieve it
• Your place on the Partnership Spectrum, plus one partner conversation worth starting
• A repeatable F.A.B.R.I.C.™ Decision Filter, applied to a real decision you’re facing
• At least one concrete next step and one new cross-sector Chamber connection
About a week before the session, registrants receive a short Pre-Workshop Questionnaire. It takes a few minutes and helps you arrive with a real capacity gap, partnership question, and open decision already in mind. It also doubles as your worksheet during the session, so the pre-work and the in-room work are one and the same. Every participant leaves with a one-page F.A.B.R.I.C.™ Decision Filter card to use on the next hard call back at the office.
About Your Facilitator:
Jennifer Sconyers is the President and Founder of Abundance Leadership Consulting (ALC), a Columbus, Ohio–based consulting firm specializing in leadership development, equity, and organizational change. She founded ALC after watching too many organizations struggle to move from good intentions to real, lasting change, and set out to give leaders the tools, systems, and courage to close that gap.
Jennifer brings nearly two decades of leadership experience across advertising, television, marketing, and politics, where she learned how to build high-performing teams quickly. Today, ALC partners with mission-driven organizations across the nonprofit, public, education, and small business sectors. Her clients have included the ACLU, Wellstone Action, Fox, and Lee Wayne Corporation, as well as Central Ohio public sector partners such as SOPEC, Westerville City Schools, and the Franklin County Auditor’s Office.
Through ALC’s nonprofit mergers & acquisitions practice, she developed the F.A.B.R.I.C.™ framework at the heart of this session. Jennifer hosts the ALC ChangeMakers Podcast, featuring conversations with nonprofit leaders, social entrepreneurs, and community change-makers. She holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in communications and political science from the University of Illinois Springfield and serves on the Executive Committee of the Ohio Environmental Council’s board.
Steady Ground is a practical, interactive session that gives you a shared language and simple tools for three things happening at once: naming where your capacity is strained and what could relieve it, treating partnership and collaboration as a real strategic option rather than a last resort, and making hard decisions with a clear process you can stand behind.
The session is built on Abundance Leadership Consulting’s F.A.B.R.I.C.™ framework, originally developed for ALC’s nonprofit mergers & acquisitions practice and adapted here as a decision lens any organization can use. This is a working session, not a lecture: about half the time you’ll be applying the tools to your own organization. Nonprofit and small business leaders sit together at every table, so you’ll leave with ideas and connections you wouldn’t find inside your own sector.
Who Should Attend
• Executive directors, CEOs, and senior staff of nonprofits
• Small business owners and managers
• Board members and owners weighing a significant change
• Anyone curious whether a partnership, shared service, or merger could strengthen their organization
What You’ll Walk Away With
• A clear picture of where your capacity is most strained, and one realistic way to relieve it
• Your place on the Partnership Spectrum, plus one partner conversation worth starting
• A repeatable F.A.B.R.I.C.™ Decision Filter, applied to a real decision you’re facing
• At least one concrete next step and one new cross-sector Chamber connection
About a week before the session, registrants receive a short Pre-Workshop Questionnaire. It takes a few minutes and helps you arrive with a real capacity gap, partnership question, and open decision already in mind. It also doubles as your worksheet during the session, so the pre-work and the in-room work are one and the same. Every participant leaves with a one-page F.A.B.R.I.C.™ Decision Filter card to use on the next hard call back at the office.
About Your Facilitator:
Jennifer Sconyers is the President and Founder of Abundance Leadership Consulting (ALC), a Columbus, Ohio–based consulting firm specializing in leadership development, equity, and organizational change. She founded ALC after watching too many organizations struggle to move from good intentions to real, lasting change, and set out to give leaders the tools, systems, and courage to close that gap.
Jennifer brings nearly two decades of leadership experience across advertising, television, marketing, and politics, where she learned how to build high-performing teams quickly. Today, ALC partners with mission-driven organizations across the nonprofit, public, education, and small business sectors. Her clients have included the ACLU, Wellstone Action, Fox, and Lee Wayne Corporation, as well as Central Ohio public sector partners such as SOPEC, Westerville City Schools, and the Franklin County Auditor’s Office.
Through ALC’s nonprofit mergers & acquisitions practice, she developed the F.A.B.R.I.C.™ framework at the heart of this session. Jennifer hosts the ALC ChangeMakers Podcast, featuring conversations with nonprofit leaders, social entrepreneurs, and community change-makers. She holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in communications and political science from the University of Illinois Springfield and serves on the Executive Committee of the Ohio Environmental Council’s board.
