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Feel Like You're Drowning? A Compassion Fatigue Story from a Nonprofit Leader
May 13, 2025
Feel Like You're Drowning? A Compassion Fatigue Story from a Nonprofit Leader
May 13, 2025

I’m dedicating this to all the nonprofit leaders out there right now who just barely survived the COVID-19 pandemic and now face terrible challenges with funding.

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May 13, 2025
Benchmarking Salaries to Promote Equal Pay
Mar 23, 2025
Benchmarking Salaries to Promote Equal Pay
Mar 23, 2025

This is the first time in 20 years that the gender pay gap has widened. While the news is depressing, it's not surprising.

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Mar 23, 2025
What Will It Take to Rebuild Western North Carolina?
Nov 13, 2024
What Will It Take to Rebuild Western North Carolina?
Nov 13, 2024

What will it take to rebuild North Carolina? The answer and the timeframe are way longer than you think.

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Nov 13, 2024
What’s the 2024 Cost of Living for Austin, TX, USA?
Sep 16, 2024
What’s the 2024 Cost of Living for Austin, TX, USA?
Sep 16, 2024

If you are living in the Austin, TX, area, how much do you need to make to pay for basic necessities?

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Sep 16, 2024
Leaders Directly Affect the Workplace Culture: How Are You Showing Up?
Sep 15, 2024
Leaders Directly Affect the Workplace Culture: How Are You Showing Up?
Sep 15, 2024

Season 3 of The Bear highlights the dangers of isolation and control in leadership. Carmy’s personal struggles affect his ability to connect with his team, leading to disengagement.

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Sep 15, 2024
Generative AI and Human Resources: Real-Life Examples for the Workplace
Aug 27, 2024
Generative AI and Human Resources: Real-Life Examples for the Workplace
Aug 27, 2024

I use ChatGPT every day, AND I need to warn you before you go “all in” with AI & HR. 

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Aug 27, 2024
What’s the Cost of Living for Las Vegas, NV, USA?
Jun 29, 2024
What’s the Cost of Living for Las Vegas, NV, USA?
Jun 29, 2024

If you are living in the Las Vegas, NV, area, how much do you need to make to pay for basic necessities?

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Jun 29, 2024
Allyship 101 – The Basics
May 20, 2024
Allyship 101 – The Basics
May 20, 2024

Allyship spans across many groups and comes in many forms. Let’s take a minute to get grounded in the basics of allyship.

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May 20, 2024
Pay Equity Phase Two: The Assessment
May 2, 2024
Pay Equity Phase Two: The Assessment
May 2, 2024

You know about the importance of pay equity, especially right now. You’ve prepared for the pay equity journey ahead. Now what? It’s time to get into your data.

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May 2, 2024
Rural Workplaces Need Pay Equity, Too
Apr 15, 2024
Rural Workplaces Need Pay Equity, Too
Apr 15, 2024

The pay equity journey happens in four phases: preparation, assessment, leadership buy-in, and implementation. In this chapter, I’m going to outline the preparation process that I used for our pay equity journey.

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Apr 15, 2024
Eliminating the Sunday or Time Off Scaries
Apr 11, 2024
Eliminating the Sunday or Time Off Scaries
Apr 11, 2024

Do you work in an office culture that supports a single speed of work (on/off)? If so, then you need to develop your own approaches to taking time off. Here are some ways to slow your roll before and after time off for office workers.

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Apr 11, 2024
Support Caregivers in the Workplace
Apr 2, 2024
Support Caregivers in the Workplace
Apr 2, 2024

April is National Care Worker recognition month. How many of your employees are also serving as caregivers? It's important to create inclusive practices for caregiving employees.

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Apr 2, 2024
What Did the US Women’s Soccer Team Teach Us about Pay Equity?
Mar 13, 2024
What Did the US Women’s Soccer Team Teach Us about Pay Equity?
Mar 13, 2024

Equal pay may be defined as everyone has the same opportunities and resources. Let’s use the USWNT to explore this distinction.

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Mar 13, 2024
A Year with Audre Lorde
Feb 2, 2024
A Year with Audre Lorde
Feb 2, 2024

Listening and reflection help us step out of consumption and sometimes extraction. These decolonizing practices may take many forms, and today I want to share one way that I’ve prioritized these practices in my own life.

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Feb 2, 2024
Why Would People Work for Less Money?
Jan 24, 2024
Why Would People Work for Less Money?
Jan 24, 2024

Nonprofits have been part of my life for as long as I can remember. My mother worked as a teacher for a nonprofit school while I was growing up. My maternal grandparents, who also served as my caregivers, worked for a nonprofit religious group.

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Jan 24, 2024
A $25 Million Dollar Surprise
Jan 5, 2024
A $25 Million Dollar Surprise
Jan 5, 2024

This true story is what started me on my career path and purpose with pay equity. Click here to sign up to receive more sneak peeks of my upcoming book about pay equity!

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Jan 5, 2024
From Pandemic Healing to Body Liberation: A Consultant's 2023 Journey
Dec 19, 2023
From Pandemic Healing to Body Liberation: A Consultant's 2023 Journey
Dec 19, 2023

Reflection allows me to process past events and explore learnings below the surface. Here are my top 2023 reflections: I needed some COVID-19 pandemic healing, and I finally let go of my body shame. How does this relate to being a human resources consultant? Read on.

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Dec 19, 2023
Unlocking Your Potential: A Skeptic's Journey with the iEQ9 Enneagram for Professionals
Nov 22, 2023
Unlocking Your Potential: A Skeptic's Journey with the iEQ9 Enneagram for Professionals
Nov 22, 2023

Explore a skeptical HR consultant's transformative journey with the iEQ9 Enneagram Assessment, challenging traditional views on personality assessments. Discover how this tool, designed for professionals, provided profound insights and prompted a mindset shift, unlocking personal potential and fostering self-awareness.

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Nov 22, 2023
HR Budgeting: What You Need to Know
Aug 31, 2023
HR Budgeting: What You Need to Know
Aug 31, 2023

HR budgets are all the expenses related to employing people at your business. These budgets are typically planned at the annual level with adjustments (or forecasts) being made throughout the year. We are focusing here on the annual budgeting process. Let’s start with the key elements of the HR budget and a few questions to consider for each one.

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Aug 31, 2023
Women’s Equality Day is August 26
Aug 8, 2023
Women’s Equality Day is August 26
Aug 8, 2023

Women’s Equality Day was created in 1971 and supported by Bella Abzug, a female representative from New York. The date selected – August 26 – aligns with the 1920 date for the 19th amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which gave “women” to the right to vote.

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Aug 8, 2023
Navigating Change in Difficult Times
Jul 31, 2023
Navigating Change in Difficult Times
Jul 31, 2023

As a leader, we all have those months and seasons where the work is churn for us. What’s a leader to do with all this change?

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Jul 31, 2023
The Loftis Partners Origin Story – Do You Know How We Began?
Jul 5, 2023
The Loftis Partners Origin Story – Do You Know How We Began?
Jul 5, 2023

Our firm started in August 2020 after years of dreaming. I always thought being an external HR consultant would be amazing, AND I didn’t have enough confidence in myself to make the leap from working inside a business to running my own business.

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Jul 5, 2023
Building LGBTQ+ Inclusion in the Workplace
Jun 7, 2023
Building LGBTQ+ Inclusion in the Workplace
Jun 7, 2023

LGBTQ+ inclusion is more than knowing the acronym or wearing a Pride shirt. Building inclusion in the workplace can improve decision-making and innovation, increase satisfaction and retention, and strengthen your brand with customers.

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Jun 7, 2023
Finding Spaces to Reflect On Whiteness
May 1, 2023
Finding Spaces to Reflect On Whiteness
May 1, 2023

I’m finding that many people have soaked up knowledge about diversity, equity, inclusion, justice, accessibility, and belonging. However, many of these people are not quite sure how to translate this profound knowledge into changed behaviors.

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May 1, 2023
80 Participants, 40 Organizations, and 6 Funders – Regional Nonprofit Event Increases Understanding About Grantmaking
Apr 11, 2023
80 Participants, 40 Organizations, and 6 Funders – Regional Nonprofit Event Increases Understanding About Grantmaking
Apr 11, 2023

WNC Nonprofit Pathways offers broad programs across the region that include workshops and events to build skills. They also provide organization assessments at little to no cost for WNC nonprofits that strengthen organizations through targeted consulting around the nonprofit lifecycle.

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Apr 11, 2023
8 Questions to Assess Your Organization for Gender Pay Bias
Mar 6, 2023
8 Questions to Assess Your Organization for Gender Pay Bias
Mar 6, 2023

Women’s Equal Pay Day will fall on March 14, 2023. This date signifies the current gender pay gap of 16%. This day is celebrated to show how much more women must work to earn as much pay as men. A gap of 16% may not seem like much, but I invite you to dig deeper into these numbers.

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Mar 6, 2023
Leadership Lessons from A Strength to Love by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Feb 13, 2023
Leadership Lessons from A Strength to Love by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Feb 13, 2023

How we show up is tied to our business performance. We are shaped by each other and our experiences, which impacts how we show up in our relationships and our professional work. To say that we are successful purely by our own measures and intellect is a false narrative.

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Feb 13, 2023
What is Pay Transparency Anyways?
Jan 19, 2023
What is Pay Transparency Anyways?
Jan 19, 2023

Those organizations who lightly address pay transparency with muddled salary ranges for open positions may abide by laws, but they are not building trust with candidates and employees. Pay transparency is a much bigger and more involved process.

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Jan 19, 2023
2022 Favorites: Bits and Bobs
Dec 27, 2022
2022 Favorites: Bits and Bobs
Dec 27, 2022

We are circling the final days of 2022, and I am looking back at the year that has happened. We entered year three of a global pandemic, and personally we hit some big milestones in our house. Today I’m sharing items that don’t fall under certain categories like books or podcasts; these are the odds and ends that really impacted me this year.

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Dec 27, 2022
2022 Favorites: Books Edition
Dec 19, 2022
2022 Favorites: Books Edition
Dec 19, 2022

I’ve read or listened to 51 books in 2022 (full list below). Sometimes I need to step out of the serious stuff and read a good fantasy story (Ex. Harry Potter or Percy Jackson) for a mind palate cleanse. Then I go right back to it. Typically, I choose audiobooks based on the narrator. What have been your favorites this year?

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Dec 19, 2022

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