Local wellness funds appear to move more quickly through the development process when leaders are engaged fully, are risk takers, and seek to bring other members of the community into meaningful partnership. Some leaders are more comfortable learning from innovators rather than being pioneers themselves, especially when financial loss is possible if the effort fails.
Multisectoral, adaptive, and risk tolerant leadership is a driver for success for some funds. In establishing a fund, the engagement of leaders who have experience in seeing the money in the system and fluency in the private, public and nonprofit sectors can help facilitate collaboration across sectors to achieve shared goals. Adaptive and risk tolerant leaders create an environment that seeks diverse views and encourages innovation. Leadership provides the grounding and direction for a local wellness fund and can help partners across sectors to work together effectively to achieve shared outcomes. Leadership change inevitably changes the pace and progress of fund development.
Local wellness funds appear to move more quickly through the development process when leaders are engaged fully, are risk takers, and seek to bring other members of the community into meaningful partnership. Some leaders are more comfortable learning from innovators rather than being pioneers themselves, especially when financial loss is possible if the effort fails.
Multisectoral, adaptive, and risk tolerant leadership is a driver for success for some funds. In establishing a fund, the engagement of leaders who have experience in seeing the money in the system and fluency in the private, public and nonprofit sectors can help facilitate collaboration across sectors to achieve shared goals. Adaptive and risk tolerant leaders create an environment that seeks diverse views and encourages innovation. Leadership provides the grounding and direction for a local wellness fund and can help partners across sectors to work together effectively to achieve shared outcomes. Leadership change inevitably changes the pace and progress of fund development.
Adaptive Leadership Self-Assessment for Organizations
This tool, developed by the Family Planning National Training center, is designed to help organizations identify their strengths and areas for grown in adaptive leadership skills. Adaptive leadership can drive success among local wellness funds. Local wellness funds can use this assessment to help evaluate and make a plan to build skills among their leadership.
Impact Investing 2.0: MULTILINGUAL LEADERSHIP
This report — from Pacific Community Ventures, Inc., ImpactAssets, and Duke University’s Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship — presents examples of success finance and impact investing sector. Chapter 3 focuses on the value and need for multilingual leadership who can speak to both finance and public service sectors. Local wellness funds can use this report to learn about why multilingual leadership is important and how to build this within their collaborative.
Rural Leadership, Rural Health: What We’re Learning
This fact sheet from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation shares learnings on rural health leadership involvement in solving complex health issues and advancing health equity. Local wellness funds can learn more about how innovative leaders are approaching health and wellness in rural communities and apply these ideas and lessons in their own communities.
The Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the World
This resource is a book by the authors Ronald Heifetz, Marty Linskey, and Alexander Grashow, published in the Harvard Business Press. The book serves as a practical guide that contains stories, tools, diagrams, cases, and worksheets to help individuals develop adaptive leadership skills and put those skills into practice. LWFs can use this handbook to overcome the challenges that can arise when operating in a cross-sector collaborative space through adaptive leadership skills.
