One Take with Glenn Kaufhold

👉 The Scoop – “Eating your own dog food” is tech-startup-speak for using your own product in your company. And Glenn Kaufhold, a social entrepreneur, is very open about his need to revitalize his previous company of 15 years and that his new one, Luna Experience, is following its own recipe for success.

👉 Decisive Moment #1 – Had a tough conversation with his father about not wanting to remain in the Boy Scouts.

👉 Decisive Moment #2 – The company he worked at in Boston got sold and was moving to California. Glenn decided to his first love of non-profits and has worked in the non-profit world ever since.

👉 Unexpected change or event – The change is happening right now, as we speak. After COVID, non-profits had to reinvent themselves. At the same time, the entire non-profit sector is under attack and trust has eroded. Non-profits can’t go back to doing what they were doing before and expect to succeed.

👉 What did he do? – Set up Luma Experience. "The work that I'm doing right now in my new company is working with nonprofits of all sizes, especially some of the smallest, to guide them through the next few years and help inspire them and push them to really look differently at how they are operating."

There's two words that come to mind. The first is open-mindedness. You have to be open to ideas. The second is “fearless”. Not reckless. But not afraid to do things differently.

👉 About older workers – It is people like the two of us who have been doing this for 40 plus years, who have seen what works, who have seen what doesn't work, but the caveat is find that older person who is open-minded.