Webinar:
When KPIs Aren’t Enough: Leading Through Change with System Signals
Thursday, June 18 at 2 p.m. ET
Organizations today are navigating constant change — shifting community needs, funding uncertainty, evolving partnerships, staff burnout, and growing pressure to adapt quickly while staying grounded in mission and values. While dashboards and KPIs can help track progress, many leaders struggle with a familiar challenge: the data often feels too slow, too static, or too disconnected from rapidly changing realities to fully support timely decision-making.
In this webinar, Community Science introduces a practical approach to using “system signals” as a living organizational health dashboard. Rather than relying solely on retrospective metrics, participants will explore how to identify early indicators of change across their ecosystem, interpret what those shifts may mean for strategy and operations, and use real-time insights to support more adaptive decision-making.
Designed for nonprofit leaders, intermediaries, funders, evaluators, and strategy teams, this session will help participants move beyond compliance-oriented reporting toward more responsive, context-driven approaches to organizational resilience, learning, and planning.
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Your Hosts
Michelle Haynes-Baratz, Ph.D.
Director
Community Science
Michelle is an organizational psychologist who brings two decades of experience researching, developing, and implementing evidence-based interventions to create more equitable and inclusive workplaces. She specializes in leveraging data, both quantitative and qualitative, to understand organizational ecosystems with a specific focus on transforming organizational culture and climate with equity at its core.
Amber Trout, PhD
Managing Director and Head of Practice
Community Science
Amber is a systems strategist with 15+ years of experience supporting learning and change across philanthropy, nonprofits, and public systems. She works with leaders to turn strategy into action by strengthening how organizations learn, make decisions, and adapt in real time. Her work focuses on helping teams connect data with lived experience to improve implementation and advance mission impact.
Marissa Salazar, Ph.D.
Associate
Community Science
Marissa is an organizational psychologist with over five years of experience supporting strategies that strengthen culture, effectiveness, and well-being across the social sector. She partners with nonprofit and philanthropic leaders to build healthy organizations and systems that extend impact across their ecosystems.