Leadership, Integrity & Enrolling Others In Your Vision

The Nonprofit Exchange: Leadership Tools & Strategies

Leadership, Integrity & Enrolling Others In Your Vision:

Food Pantry Lines to Volunteer to CEO & Vice Chairman of the Board with Joel Clelland

Joel Clelland is a serial entrepreneur and influencer who has had a number of successful businesses: special events, entertainment, and insurance.

Most recently, Joel Clelland served as Centric’s Chief Executive Officer. Centric is a dual token cryptocurrency system working to stabilize prices and provide a global borderless medium of exchange that only goes up in purchasing power. While CEO, Joel, and his team added a number of new exchanges and partnerships, as well as three cryptocurrency payment gateways. Centric users can pay with Centric tokens (spec. Centric Swap "CNS") using the payment gateways and the merchants can get paid out in cryptocurrency or whatever their local currency happens to be. Learn more about the Centric Payment Network and connect with the team by visiting https://www.centric.com/cenpay/.

Joel also serves as the Vice Chairman of the Board for 501(c)(3) nonprofit Project Boon, a community organization based in Southern California that assists underserved children, individuals, and families with food security and connections to needed services. "As a former Board Chair, I have an affinity for the organization and where it is headed. Our catchphrases are, "empowering people next door and a world away" and "give without reservation." Prior to the pandemic, Project Boon was involved in service in both the U.S. and Mexico. Hopefully, we can get back down to Tuxpan, Jalisco in Mexico soon."

Joel's message:

Leaders are always learning.

Listen more than you speak. Ask questions that encourage beneficial discourse. Create safety for all stakeholders. Find the areas that need improvement together. Then, make those better.

As the key person in your organization, have a solid vision in that you can enroll all stakeholders. Develop and deploy a call to action that engages your team on specific tasks to execute your vision. Review this weekly, monthly, and quarterly. Is your vision being realized? A group of people that is unclear on its vision cannot win (cannot execute the leader's vision).

Remain grateful and practice gratitude. Things happen for us, not to us. Instead of asking, "Why," ask, "What does this mean for me? What purpose does this serve for our team and me?" In what ways will our actions benefit the community (make an impact)?

Be humble and love your team and community.

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