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MORE ABOUT ME...

• Why are you interested in joining Leadership for a New Era? Learning other peoples thoughts and perspectives about leadership.
  

• What do you hope to contribute to this collaborative initiative? Mostly learn but share insights as well.

• I am interested in the following topics: Nonprofit leadership, collective leadership, adaptive leadership, shared leadership, and relational leadership.
  

• The best word to describe me is: Enthusiastic
  

• What else you should know about me:
  

Heather has served as a Nonprofit Manager, Researcher, Trainer, and Blogger to nonprofit organizations for over eight years. She earned her M.M. in Nonprofit Administration from North Park University in Chicago, Illinois and she currently pursues her PhD in Leadership at the University of San Diego where she serves as a Researcher at the Caster Family Center for Nonprofit Research. Heather teaches and presents on a variety of topics in the nonprofit sector, is an avid social media user and authors the well-known Nonprofit Leadership 601 blog.

Heather is also author and creator of three nonprofit management toolkits: Nonprofit Operations, Setting up a Nonprofit Office, and Starting a Nonprofit, and participates on a variety of national nonprofit committees including, but not limited to, the Nonprofit Sector Workforce Coalition, the Next Generation Leadership Forum and the Nonprofit Congress. Her current research interests include: nonprofit leadership, nonprofit workforce issues, capacity building for nonprofits, service-learning, nonprofit technology, and nonprofit education.

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How did you find out about Leadership for a New Era? Twitter!!

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WHY IS IT IMPORTANT TO COMPLETE YOUR PROFILE?

When you join the LNE website, you join as a "Registered User" and you automatically have access to the discussion threads – you can add new threads or comment on existing ones. We encourage you to also share resources and ideas to the content pages of the website. If you want to add, edit or delete content on a page, you need to request access by clicking on the “Request to be a Writer” button that appears at the top of every page and enter a quick blurb about how you want to contribute to the site. Once your request has been approved, your permissions settings will be set to "Writer" and you will be able to edit, delete, or add content to any page on the website.

If you complete your profile when you join the LNE website, we can also change your user settings to "Writer" - and you will not need to go through the process of filling out the "Request to be a Contributor" form. Simply tell us in your profile why you are interested in this collaborative research initiative, and in general terms, what you hope to contribute to the project (i.e. add resources on the topic pages, new topics, etc.) If you have questions please contact Natalia Castaneda.