A one-day, interactive, insight-driven workshop for senior nonprofit leaders, board directors, and key members of their teams ready to step outside the day-to-day, gain fresh perspective, and get clearer on what their organization needs next.
What Could Become Possible If You Stepped Outside the Day-To-Day?
Every organization reaches moments when where it wants to go next calls for a fresh way of thinking about how to get there.
Sometimes the opportunity is already taking shape. Sometimes you know there is more within reach and want the perspective, ideas, and language to see what the next move could be.
Elevate for Sustainability creates space to step outside the day-to-day, encounter approaches beyond your own organization, and consider new possibilities for what comes next.
See more clearly. Discover what’s possible. Clarify what matters next. Move forward with confidence.
A Clearer View of What’s Possible Next.
Fresh perspective on your organization
Step outside the day-to-day and see opportunities that deserve a closer look.
A broader view of healthy governance
Gain exposure to proven board and executive best practices, along with practical strategies to strengthen governance within your organization.
A strategic lens for story
Connect organizational movement, audience, and human truth to the stories your team chooses to develop.
New possibilities for financial flexibility
See the assets, expertise, relationships, and capabilities already inside your organization through the lens of earned revenue.
Greater clarity around leadership ownership
See where your attention creates the greatest value and where clearer ownership can create greater capacity.
Language and next moves you can take back to your team
Turn fresh perspective into productive conversations and practical action.
Four Expert Lenses - One Clearer View of What Comes Next
Elevate for Sustainability is designed as one connected experience, not four unrelated presentations.
Each expert brings a different lens to the same leadership question:
What is within reach now that could help our organization move toward what is possible next?
EARNED REVENUE
Are You Sitting on Revenue You Haven’t Found Yet?
Earned Revenue: Igniting New Paths to Unrestricted Funding
The funding landscape keeps shifting, and it can feel like an endless cycle of chasing the next grant.
What if greater control and freedom with unrestricted funding were already within reach, sitting inside your organization, unrecognized?
Tanja guides you to look at your organization through a new lens to uncover the earned-revenue potential built into what you already do best and begin seeing a path forward that is not constrained by grants.
You’ll leave with: A new lens on the value already inside your organization and a first look at how to turn that value into earned revenue and unrestricted funding opportunities you may not have considered.
Tanja Horan · Founder & CEO, Tacosa 360
BOARD GOVERNANCE
Healthy Boards. Sustainable Organizations.
Every board develops its own rhythms, practices, and ways of working. One of the most valuable things a leader can gain is exposure to how effective governance is approached beyond their own boardroom.
Susan will introduce proven practices around roles, board and executive relationships, effective meetings, purposeful committees and advisory structures, and intentional approaches to recruiting and developing board members.
You’ll leave with: A broader view of healthy governance, exposure to proven practices for your board and leadership team, along with practical ideas for what could strengthen the way you lead together.
Dr. Susan Nichols · Founder, Connecting Communities Consulting
EXECUTIVE CAPACITY
Delegate to Decide: Building a Sustainable Ownership System
As organizations grow, the way work and ownership are distributed has to grow with them.
Sasha will help you look at leadership capacity through the lens of ownership: where your attention creates the greatest value, what others are ready to own, and how greater clarity around outcomes can create more capacity across the organization.
You’ll leave with: A working not-to-do list, a clear from/to commitment, and a practical framework for transferring ownership so you can give more attention to the work only you can do.
Sasha Crabtrey · Founder & President, Remote COO
STORY STRATEGY
Story That Can Carry the Strategy
As organizations grow, so does the wealth of human experience and story within them. The opportunity is to connect those stories more intentionally to the movement leadership is trying to create.
Ashley will introduce a leadership-level approach to story strategy: beginning with the organizational priority, identifying who needs to move, clarifying the human truth that needs to become clear, and exploring the stories capable of carrying that narrative.
You’ll leave with: A strategic lens for connecting story to leadership priorities and a framework for identifying the human truths and story opportunities your team should explore next.
Ashley Cadis, MA · Co-Founder, Nathan Cadis Media
One Day to Step Outside the Day-To-Day
| DATE | Wednesday, November 11, 2026 |
| TIME | 10:00 AM–4:00 PM |
| FORMAT | In person |
| LOCATION | Houston’s First Baptist Church, The Loop Campus 7401 Katy Freeway · Houston, Texas |
| INVESTMENT | $495 per person $350 per person Early Bird Discount thru Sept. 30th |
| INCLUDED | Workshop Materials + Lunch |
A Full Day with Room to Think, Connect, and See What’s Possible
Elevate is designed as one connected experience. Throughout the day, you’ll encounter four expert perspectives, reflect on your own organization, exchange ideas with other nonprofit leaders, and begin connecting what you are hearing to the opportunities in front of you.
| ARRIVAL + REGISTRATION | Plan to arrive between 9:30 and 9:45 AM to check in, get settled, and connect with others in the room. |
| THE DAY BEGINS | Elevate begins promptly at 10:00 AM with a shared framing for the day. |
| THROUGHOUT THE DAY | Expert insights · individual reflection · table conversation · lunch · opportunities to ask questions · space to connect ideas across all four lenses |
| INTEGRATION + NEXT MOVES | We’ll bring the perspectives of the day together and give you space to consider what matters most for your organization moving forward. |
| CLOSE | The day concludes at 4:00 PM. |
Four Practitioners. Four Disciplines. One Shared Commitment to Helping Nonprofit Leaders See What’s Possible Next.
TANJA HORAN · TACOSA 360
Tanja Horan is the Founder & CEO of Tacosa 360, where she partners with nonprofit leaders to rethink funding models, uncover earned-revenue opportunities, and build organizational resilience. With her builder’s mindset, she spent decades in the for-profit sector as a product leader, building teams, driving strategic initiatives, and mentoring startups. Tanja intentionally shifted her focus to nonprofits, bringing that experience to help them unlock the untapped value within their organizations, diversify revenue, and access more unrestricted funding to scale sustainable impact.
SASHA CRABTREY · REMOTE COO
Sasha Crabtrey is the founder and president of Remote COO and brings more than 25 years of experience in business and nonprofit operations and project management. After experiencing firsthand what happens when too much work and ownership remain with the leader, Sasha built a practical framework that helps leaders prioritize, transfer ownership, and create strong operational foundations without becoming the organization’s bottleneck.
DR. SUSAN NICHOLS · CONNECTING COMMUNITIES CONSULTING
Dr. Susan Nichols is a nonprofit consultant and transformational speaker with more than 33 years of nonprofit leadership experience. As an Executive Director, Founding Director, board member, and advisor to hundreds of nonprofit executives and their boards, Susan helps organizations bridge the gap between vision and strategy by strengthening the structures, systems, and governance practices that support long-term mission impact.
ASHLEY CADIS, MA · NATHAN CADIS MEDIA
Ashley Cadis, MA, is co-founder of Nathan Cadis Media and a global storyteller with nearly 20 years of nonprofit experience. Having worked from grassroots programs through development leadership, senior leadership, board service, and strategic advisory roles, Ashley helps mission-driven organizations connect human stories to strategy through a dignity-centered approach that brings heart, mission, and meaningful action together.
What People Are Saying About Our Experts
Dr. Susan Nichols
“Susan brings a rare combination of deep nonprofit expertise and practical, real-world application. She understands how boards actually function and how to move them forward.”
Ted Tredennick · Chair, Loving Houston Board
“Never, in my 30 years of leading in organizations, have I heard such thorough, necessary, and practical counsel.”
Dr. Roger Patterson · Senior Pastor, CityRise Church
Ashley Cadis
“It is clear to me that you both truly grasp this mission at its depths… the film doesn’t just explain CAFO, but rather helps a person to see what it is all about and ultimately to feel it.”
Jedd Medefind · President, Christian Alliance for Orphans
“This captures, visually, with a real-life person what we have been trying to verbally express for years.”
Jenny Jones · Senior Director of Programs, Attack Poverty
Tanja Horan
“Tanja brings a unique combination of business acumen, marketing and planning with a passion for helping nonprofits fulfill their mission. She is driven and effective, and an excellent partner for nonprofits who need to “up their game” in business operations, planning, and go-to-market strategies, especially for new ventures or times of complex change.”
Susan Dawson, President, E3 Alliance
“Tanja Horan is a skillful collaborator who understands the big picture and can delve into the details. She was instrumental in launching a unique healthcare initiative – Addressing Cancer Together – to provide cancer care for people uninsured in Central Texas.”
Ellen Richards, Vice President, ACT United Way for Greater Austin
Sasha Crabtrey
“Sasha is a consummate professional who understands how difficult it can be for many nonprofit executives to ask for and accept assistance! I couldn’t imagine how much more effective I’d be with strategically targeted support.”
Jennifer Dritt · Executive Director, Florida Council Against Sexual Violence
“Remote COO flexes with us as our needs change, and we know we can lean on them for more whenever the moment calls for it. We are able to get more done, stay more organized, and honestly, I’m able to be a better leader because I have that support.”
Michelle Sperzel, MBA, CFRE · CEO, Harbor House of Central Florida
FAQ
Elevate for Sustainability is designed for Executive Directors, CEOs, senior leaders, key members of leadership teams, and board leaders who can see across the organization, influence priorities, and help shape what happens next.
Yes. Bringing board and leadership team members gives you the opportunity to hear the same ideas, gain shared language, and get everyone on the same page so you can move forward more effectively together.
Yes. Elevate for Sustainability is an in-person experience at Houston’s First Baptist Church, The Loop Campus. The day includes live teaching, conversation, reflection, and opportunities to connect the ideas directly to your organization.
Registration includes the full workshop experience, participant materials, and lunch, along with opportunities for guided reflection, table conversation, and questions with the four experts throughout the day.
Bring an organizational priority, opportunity, or question you are already thinking about. You’ll get the most from the day by having something meaningful in mind as you consider each perspective.
Registration is nonrefundable, but tickets are transferable. If your plans change, you are welcome to send another leader, board member, or key team member from your organization in your place. Please notify elevate@remotecoo.com.
Elevate to Amplify. Build to Sustain.
There may be more within reach than you realize.
Step outside the day-to-day, encounter fresh perspectives, and leave with greater clarity around the possibilities and next moves worth exploring for your organization.
Wednesday, November 11 · Houston
Super Early Bird · $350 through September 30
Questions? Email elevate@remotecoo.com
Presented by:
Tanja Horan, Tacosa 360
Dr. Susan Nichols, Connecting Communities Consulting
Sasha Crabtrey, Remote COO
Ashley Cadis, MA, Nathan Cadis Media
Questions? elevate@remotecoo.com