When I first designed my fundraising workshop, I spent six months turning my intuitions, patterns, and experiences into a system that could be taught. The work was about making implicit knowledge explicit and figuring out how to make it land for other people. While I’m mostly known as a fundraiser, a significant portion of my… Continue reading Design Tenets for Structural Advocacy
Category: Pitch Geek
Form.
For most of my life, I have carried a set of loves and obsessions: design, architecture, fashion, dance, rhetoric, protocol, and etiquette. A few years ago, I had a realization. These weren’t parallel interests, they were all expressions of the same fixation: form. In each of these disciplines, form is primary. Form isn’t something a… Continue reading Form.
How to Read a LinkedIn Profile
See what’s actually there. The top half shows performance — how they want to be seen. The bottom half shows formation — who they are, what they trust, and what they still need to prove. The top half tells you how to enter the conversation — their frame of self-importance. The bottom half tells you… Continue reading How to Read a LinkedIn Profile
Geoffrey MacDougall 