Strategic Fail: Why Nonprofit Strategic Planning Fails, and How to Fix It

Attention nonprofit CEOs and board members...Award-winning author and Certified Leadership Coach Patrick Jinks delivers his long-awaited perspective on strategic planning for leaders in the social sector.Nonprofit boards and directors rely on strategic planning to accomplish their missions, but far too many of them engage in strategic planning processes that are outdated, perfunctory, and ineffective.Jinks combines his two decades of nonprofit executive leadership experience with his executive coaching and leadership development experience to bring a refreshing look at what has become a stale, old function of nonprofits.Strategic Fail outlines 10 key reasons nonprofits fail to design and execute effective strategy, and shares easy-to-grasp tips for doing it better. The book also contains access to a free organizational self-assessment tool, based on The Jinks Perspective's 5x5 Organizational Matrix™.

As an award-winning professional photographer, Patrick Jinks learned the value of viewing challenges through the right lenses to achieve success. After a successful 22-year career in nonprofit leadership, Patrick changed lenses to serve the sector from another perspective. Today, through his company (The Jinks Perspective), he coaches and trains leaders in both the social and corporate sectors, with a unique approach focused on clarity, simplicity, and alignment. Patrick is a member of the National Association of Experts, Writers, and Speakers. As a certified coach, Patrick is featured in 2018 as a GameChanger(R) and a Master of Success(R) in forthcoming editions of USA Today and The Wall Street Journal respectively. His fresh take on nonprofit strategy and leadership through The Strategic Coaching Continuum(TM) is featured this year on Success Today, for CBS, NBC, ABC, and Fox affiliates across the country. Patrick is a regular contributor to Forbes.com as a member of the Forbes Coaches Council. He is an adjunct executive coach and trainer with Leadership Systems, Inc., and a certified Influencer(TM) trainer with VitalSmarts(R). Patrick's rapid success as a coach for nonprofits earned him a spot as keynote speaker at the 2017 Global LEAP Summit, and an invitation to co-author Taking the Leap: How to Build a World-Class Coaching Business, along with such master coaches as Marshall Goldsmith, Mark Thompson, Marc Steinberg, and Chicken Soup for the Soul creator Jack Canfield. Patrick's work with Canfield on their second collaborative book, Success Starts Today, earned Patrick an Editor's Choice Award from CelebrityPress(TM) for his contribution.