Amy Freitag became president of The New York Community Trust in July 2022. For the prior eight years, she was executive director of the J.M. Kaplan Fund, a 75-year-old family foundation based in New York City. During her tenure, she initiated the J.M.K. Innovation Prize and led grantmaking in criminal justice reform, climate change, democracy, and historical conservation, including several Civil Rights sites.

“The best leaders I know always want the organization to thrive well past their ambition. The organization will go to new places, and we all have certain gifts that we bring to an organization, and no one person can lead an organization forever. It gets richer with different leadership.”

Brand visibility expert N. Chloé Nwangwu joins the Leaving Well podcast to share how executive directors and leaders of nonprofits can navigate their influence and amplify themselves and their brand, even thought they may be underrecognized. Through science-backed strategies, she shares how executives can shape the future, build lasting networks, and leave behind outdated models.

The Your First Million Live conference from Arlan Hamilton was incredible and jam packed with an incredible line-up of folks who brought their expertise to the stage from a multitude of vantage points, with powerful nuance, and personal stories. Read more for my learnings and lessons from attending the inaugural event.