Blog — BE Development Partners

Accord Network: Diversity and Inclusion – Introduction Creating Belonging Cultures (Webinar Summary)

Organizations responding to the voices being amplified today are asking, “How do we bring about real cultural shifts that last and make a difference?”

Integral Alliance and Accord Network came together to host a discussion on the issue that has risen to the forefront of every organization today: diversity and inclusion. Nikki Lerner, who is a consultant, author and speaker, along with Eeva Sallinen Simard and Beth Birmingham, both partners of BE Development Partners, came together to lead a discussion about how to create belonging cultures.

Eeva Simard + Beth BirminghamSeptember 15, 2020Belonging Culture, Diversity, Leadership

Where are the Women Leaders at the Leadership Tables of Kingdom NGOs?

Last year when a dear sister, and admired senior executive stepped down from her very influential leadership position in a Faith Based NGO, I wept. No longer would little girls around the world who could look upon the top of that organizational chart and see someone who looked like them and think “maybe me someday”. I wept, because after 20+ years of doing leadership development in this sector, I’ve seen the needle move, far, far too little in making space at the table for women executives.

The connection between Spiritual and Leadership Development

Leadership Is All About Relationship, First and Foremost to the One Who Calls Us

As James MacGregor Burns wrote in his book Transforming Leadership, relationship is at the core of any good definition of leadership. Leadership is all about relationship.

Eeva Simard + Beth BirminghamSeptember 25, 2019faith-based nonprofits, leadership, peculiar leader

Women at Work: 3 Things I Wish I Knew When I Graduated College

“Women are missing at top tiers of leadership, in research labs, and generally around the table when important decisions with lasting consequences for both men and women are made.”

Eeva Simard + Beth BirminghamSeptember 16, 2019women's leadership, equality, leadership