Beth Ellen Holimon
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The Hive Collective Podcast explores the dynamic world of nonprofit leadership, focusing on innovative ways to shift and share power. Hosted by Beth Ellen Holimon, a nonprofit professional with decades of leadership experience, each episode delves into topics like collaborative decision-making, inclusive leadership practices, and strategies for empowering teams and communities. Through engaging conversations with diverse guests, including industry leaders, activists, and thinkers, The Hive Collective Podcast offers insights and practical advice for anyone looking to drive positive change in the nonprofit sector. Join us as we navigate the complexities of nonprofit management and discover new…
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Shared leadership becomes concrete through candid conversations about governance, workplace equity, trust and accountability inside nonprofit organizations.
Beth Ellen Holliman keeps returning to a difficult management question: what changes when leaders share real decision-making authority? The Hive Collective Podcast: Shifting Power in Nonprofits uses guest conversations to examine power as an operating concern, visible in…
A CEO joins just one decision circle, and your shared-leadership plans suddenly get concrete.
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Comedy leadership becomes a lens on trust, teamwork, and shared power in nonprofits.
Harrison Brookie makes a strong case for comedy leadership as a way to think about nonprofit power-sharing. The discussion stays focused on trust, ensemble thinking, feedback, and the value of different strengths in the room, which keeps it grounded and useful.
A thoughtful look at shared power when mission, structure, and financial sustainability all have to coexist.
The discussion takes up nonprofit leadership through a sharper question: what shared power looks like when organizations still have to function, pay, and last.
A grounded look at nonprofit power-sharing, accountability, and the harm that exposes both.
The episode keeps its attention on shifting and sharing power in nonprofits, and it does that best when Beth Ellen Holliman stays close to concrete work rather than theory.
A reflective discussion about periods at work and the case for kinder organizational culture.
The episode treats periods as a workplace reality, not a side topic, and links that reality to shifting and sharing power in nonprofits. Marlou Cornelison, Slindalee Kuzwayo, and Denzil Doyle keep it rooted in lived experience, moving between presentations, confidence, and the…
A grounded look at shared decision-making, centered on workload, trust, and sustainability.
Earth Island Institute comes across as an organization trying to make shared decision-making workable, not just aspirational. Staff-led circles are kept to three people, and Shimona Majumdar now sits in only one, which helps show the shape of the change.
Politics, odd news, and local heart.
Faith, service, and everyday generosity.
Governance, cities, and growth under the hood.
Shagun Sethi and Jasmine Anuna join Beth Ellen Holliman for a conversation about leadership, shared power, and the messier question of how organizations choose structures that fit their actual work.
This episode features Karen Smith and Jen Zuckerman discussing community-rooted organizations, focusing on how Communities in Partnership was formed in response to trauma and gentrification in Durham.
The Hive Collective brings together Marlou Cornelison, Slindalee Kuzwayo, and Denzil Doyle for a conversation about period reality and work.
Power sharing gets practical here.
Host Beth Ellen Holimon interviews Harrison Brookie, an improv coach and theater owner, about applying improv principles like 'yes-and' and ensemble collaboration to nonprofit leadership and business.
Helene Wolf of Fair Share for Women Leaders (Berlin) argues that unpaid advocacy and unpaid board seats limit participation to people who can afford to work for free.
Sana Mustafa explains why Asylum Access dropped education and years-of-experience requirements from about 99 percent of its job descriptions.
Jensine Larsen of World Pulse says the network of 100,000+ members in 230-plus countries and territories was designed as 'tender tech' rather than growth-driven social media.