Interview with Marc Pitman

CEO of The Concord Leadership Group; Author of Ask Without Fear! and The Surprising Gift of Doubt

The Surprising Gift of Doubt

Marc Pitman is an international leadership coach, fundraising trainer and author. Marc helps nonprofit board members and staff get excited about asking for money.

Interview with Marc Pitman

CEO of The Concord Leadership Group; Author of Ask Without Fear! and The Surprising Gift of Doubt

The Surprising Gift of Doubt

Marc Pitman is an international leadership coach, fundraising trainer and author. Marc helps nonprofit board members and staff get excited about asking for money.

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Summary of interview with Marc Pitman

Hi everyone! if you haven’t seen the interview we did last year with Marc Pitman, make sure you check it out after watching this as it gives an overview of Marc’s career and his experience in the fundraising space. As well as lots of fundraising tips to help you with your fundraising strategies and how to improve as a fundraising leader.

However, today we will be discussing leadership in more detail, how this relates to fundraising through talking points of Marc’s latest book, The Surprising Gift of Doubt: Use Uncertainty to Become the Exceptional Leader You Are Meant to Be.

Section 1: Introduction
  • Insight into Marc Pitman’s latest projects  in the nonprofit space over the past six months
  • Marc shares his fundraising success stories and what went into making them a success

 

Section 2: The Surprising Gift of Doubt
  • What motivated Marc to write his latest book The Surprising Gift of Doubt: Use Uncertainty to Become the Exceptional Leader You Are Meant to Be
  • How development and fundraising leaders can suffer from ‘imposter syndrome’
  • Marc discusses how fundraising and development leaders can use uncertainty or uncomfortable feelings to develop leadership mastery through four stages of development
  • And how development and fundraising leaders can identify and inherent these abilities and learn to apply them effectively
  • As well as how fundraising and development leaders can set career and life goals that meet their leadership objectives

 

Section 3: Enhancing the fundraising and development teams performance
  • By going through this process you’ll be able to create a more motivated fundraising and development team which strives for better results
  • Hear how aspiring fundraising and development leaders should apply these techniques
  • Marc shares an example of a nonprofit organisation already applying these techniques with effective results

 

Section 4: Summary
  • Learn what assessment and self-management tools are available to fundraising and development professionals to reach their full leadership potential
  • Marc’s final advice to inspire and fulfil fundraisers

 

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