Join us for an honest conversation about the isolation of leadership, the myth of doing it all alone, and what changes when founders build in community instead.
We build organizations to serve others, but who's checking in on the people carrying the weight of building them?
Our upcoming roundtable will explore leadership isolation, building cultures of support, and how founders are learning to lead in community instead of alone.
Date: Wednesday, October 14, 2026
Time: 10 AM PT / 11 AM MT / 1 PM ET
Location: Call link shared after registration
Duration: 1 hour
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?
Audrey Selian
With almost two decades in impact investing and a PhD in technology policy and development, Audrey is a connector and capital allocator who believes that channeling investment toward good businesses is one of the clearest ways to serve the under-served.
She is Director of Artha Impact, the impact investing arm of Rianta Capital, where she helps convene networks and deploy capital toward social enterprises across agriculture, healthcare, and livelihoods, primarily in India. She is also the co-founder of Impact for Breakfast, a global network of more than 5,000 impact investors gathering across more than 50 cities.
Audrey has been active in impact investing since 2007.
DIRECTOR, ARTHA IMPACT AT RIANTA CAPITAL 
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.