Receiving & Giving Feedback: Essential Practices for Healthy Organizations and Communities

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Live on April 23rd, 2026: 2:00pm to 3:30pm Eastern

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Without effective feedback moving among staff, board, and community members, shared learning and shared progress elude us. Building healthy, joyful organizations and communities requires deepening our capacity to share both appreciative and constructive feedback with one another.

But feedback can feel scary. We may have been hurt by feedback that felt unfair or uncaring. We may have avoided giving feedback to a colleague for fear of humiliating or angering them. When feedback is rarely shared directly, it is hard to take the risk of speaking up. Which is why we need to invite everyone in our organization to walk a different path together. When we commit to being a learning organization, we can transform our feedback culture.

Join returning presenter Ananda Valenzuela for an immersive session on feedback that will cover:

• the essential elements of a feedback culture
• how to receive feedback effectively
• how to give feedback generously
• mindsets and practices for addressing power dynamics when receiving or giving feedback

This session is ideal for people at all organizational levels committed to personal and group development, learning and adaptation, and nurturing liberatory communities.

Moderated by Jeanne Bell, Program Host, Leading Edge (NPQ) 

Presenter:

Ananda Valenzuela (any pronouns) provides interim executive director leadership, facilitates organizational transformation, and coaches values-aligned leaders. He is passionate about nourishing joyful organizational cultures, supporting equitable self-management, and building liberatory practices. They have served as interim executive director at multiple organizations, provided capacity-building support to nonprofits for over ten years, and currently serve as Practitioner-in-Residence at the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation. Ananda grew up in Puerto Rico and slowly made her way across the United States, holding a variety of consulting, governance, and activist roles along the way.

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