Join us for our next roundtable on June 24th.
An honest conversation in community about creativity: what it costs us when we let it go, and what we might build if we didn't.
The
CREATIVE
TENSION
Most of us were taught to keep the two things separate: work is professional, creativity is personal. But that separation was never real. The things we make, grow, write, and tend to outside of work shape how we listen, how we hold uncertainty, how we show up for our teams, and how we produce deliverables.
This roundtable is a space to explore this topic honestly, and to ask what it would take to build organizations that understand it too.
Creativity outside of work isn't a luxury. For mission-driven teams, it might just be the thing holding everything else together.
June 24
11AM MT | 1PM ET | 10AM PT
Meet Your HostS
Nina Staer Nathan
Founder & CEO at sunflower communicationsNina founded Sunflower Communications after years of working inside companies and nonprofits in various countries and contexts. She now leads a team that produces a significant volume of creative work for clients - which is part of why she thinks carefully about what it takes to sustain that over time.
In her spare time, she paints, draws, and writes, and has learned that those practices aren't separate from the work - they're actually what keeps it sustainable. This roundtable started as a question she kept thinking about with her team: what would it look like to build organizations that actually understood that?
Nora DiNuzzo
Nora DiNuzzo is a growth leader with 20 years of experience as a business developer. Her growth strategies have helped her clients unlock over $500 million in new revenue. Nora spent the first 15 years of her career as a growth lead for independent creative agencies, pitching hundreds of brands from startups to Fortune 500. She took everything she learned in the ad world and combined it with her passion for working directly with founders to start Pitcher - a brand strategy and growth consultancy that teaches owners and leaders that don't come from a BD background how to love the process of growing their businesses. Pitcher's process gets to the heart of what's holding your business back - and addresses persistent mindset and skillset issues so you can make growth a sustainable and predictable practice.
Founder & CSO at pitcher
We'll move through two conversations
What our creative lives are teaching us. A personal, reflective look at creative practice outside of work: what it asks of us, what it gives back, and why so many of us have let it go.
This isn't about productivity hacks or work-life balance. It's about what happens to us, and to our thinking, when we make space for expression without an agenda.
What it takes to build teams that make room for it.
A more structured conversation about workplace culture: how organizations can move from valuing output above everything else toward something more sustainable, more human, and more honest about what people actually need to do their best work over time.
WHY THIS MATTERS
In the impact sector, the pressure to give constantly runs high. Creative practice, rest, and expression tend to be the first things that go. However, research shows that people who maintain creative lives outside of work perform better, communicate more clearly, and recover faster. But most of our organizations weren't designed with any of that in mind.
This is the conversation we hope starts to change that.
This Roundtable is part of a series.
Hundreds of people have joined us to talk about the things that matter most while doing purpose-driven work. We’ve discussed topics such as AI & Ethics, Staying Connected to Purpose, and Women in Social Impact, with guest speakers such as Hannah Töpler from Intrare, Emiliano Iturriaga from Rutopía, and Jessica Loman from Opportunity Collaboration.
This will be our 4th event in the series - we hope you’ll join us!
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June 24
11AM MT | 1PM ET | 10AM PT
Come with your curiosity, half-formed thoughts, and the creative practice you keep meaning to get back to.
This is an open, facilitated conversation, and there's room for all of it.