A Newsletter from Vivid Operational Advisors | Issue 3: August 20, 2026 The Edit exists for the space between the plan and what actually runs on a Monday morning. Every other Thursday: one link worth your time, a person worth knowing, a resource to leverage, and an outside perspective to take with you. The Throughline You have may have the results of your Big Five, CliftonStrengths, DISC, Enneagram, the Four Tendencies, Human Design, Kolbe, Myers-Briggs, Sparketype, VIA , Working Genius, &...
16 days ago • 1 min read
A Newsletter from Vivid Operational Advisors | Issue 2: August 6, 2026 The Edit exists for the space between the plan and what actually runs on a Monday morning. Every other Thursday: one link worth your time, a person worth knowing, a resource to leverage, and an outside perspective to take with you. Muscle Memory, Not Magic The organizations struggling with AI are not struggling because the tool is wrong. They are struggling because nobody built the ritual that holds it. Read Our Take In...
30 days ago • 1 min read
A Newsletter from Vivid Operational Advisors | Issue 1: July 23, 2026 The Edit exists for the space between the plan and what actually runs on a Monday morning. Every other Thursday: one link worth your time, a person worth knowing, a resource to download, and an outside perspective to take with you. Before you Write The annual fund plan gets built every July looking clean, because nothing is running yet to expose what is actually ready. Get our check list for getting started well. Read Field...
about 1 month ago • 1 min read
Hello Reader, You have been with me through both of these, so I will keep this one short and direct. The pattern across all 86 responses is the same. The delivery core holds. Growth is delayed, not lost. And the one function that never got built on purpose, the operational layer underneath the practice, is the one thing standing between steady and flourishing. I am not writing to pitch you anything. I am asking a real question. If you had thirty minutes and someone who does this daily, what...
about 2 months ago • 1 min read
Hello Reader, Last time I sent you the shape of the whole survey, along with the link to the full report if you have not grabbed it yet. Today I want to slow down on one piece of it, because it is the one that changes how you read everything else. Fifty of the 86 said their operations are working okay. Fifty-two said they are keeping up. Only two said very well. There is a name for that middle place. The psychologist Corey Keyes calls it languishing, the state between distress and...
about 2 months ago • 1 min read
Hi Reader, Thank you for taking the time to answer the Consulting Almanac survey this spring. You gave us something honest, and every finding in this report belongs to the people who answered it. That includes you. Before this goes anywhere public, I wanted you to see it first. Here is what 86 independent consultants told us about how their practices actually run. Seventy-one of the 86 handle every piece of operational work themselves. Only five have a dedicated operations partner. That is...
about 2 months ago • 1 min read
From Vivia to Vivid Hello Reader, I wanted to share a quick, exciting evolution happening behind the scenes here. When I first launched Vivia Studios, I loved the name. But out in the wild, "Studios" made everyone think I designed event brochures or styled gala tables. (Love a good gala, but definitely not my current zone!) My true happy place is rolling up my sleeves to overhaul messy CRMs and build the backend infrastructure that keeps fundraising teams from drowning. To clear up that...
2 months ago • 1 min read