Leadership in this sector doesn't come with a clean playbook. This category is for the people doing it anyway — navigating change, holding culture, making hard calls, and trying to lead with intention inside organizations that are always in motion.
As a person in recovery, I understand the human experience differently. Not better. Not with more compassion than someone who came up another way. Differently. In a specific, hard-earned way that I did not fully understand until I was sitting in a leadership role and realized that everything I knew about building community — real community, the kind that holds people — I had learned in a church basement before I ever stepped into an office. What the Traditions Taught Me Tha
