What Slipped This Week: A Practical AI Session for Nonprofit Teams
Something fell through this week. A donor who went quiet. A decision that got raised again because nobody wrote down what you settled last time. A report you meant to pull. A conversation you have now had four times.
None of it is a crisis. That is exactly why it keeps happening. The steady, invisible movement of a week away from the shape you meant it to have is what this session calls the Drift, and most teams do not catch it until something breaks.
This working session names the four places drift shows up: decisions, capacity, people, and patterns. Participants then learn the Friday Four, a four-question ritual that uses AI as a thinking partner to catch the slip while it is still small. The session covers what to actually do with AI, what to keep it away from, and how to build the habit in thirty minutes a week without adding another tool to maintain.
Participants will work with their own real examples in the room.
What you will walk away with:
- The four places work slips, and how to spot it in your own week
- The Friday Four prompt set, tested live on your own work
- A practical line for what AI should and should not touch in a small shop
- A thirty-minute ritual you can start this Friday with no new software
Intended Audience: Best fit for executive directors, development directors, operations staff, and anyone responsible for keeping a small team’s work from slipping. Board members are welcome, though the exercises are built for people inside day to day.
Note: This is a working session. Participants should bring a laptop or tablet. A phone will work but is harder for prompt exercises.
Presented by Erin Peshoff, Founder, Vivid Operational Advisors
Erin Peshoff is the Founder of Vivid Operational Advisors, a Leesburg firm that works with nonprofits whose ambition has outpaced their systems. She spent 28 years raising money before she started building the systems underneath it, which is why she reads these problems differently. A database nobody trusts is a donor retention problem. A process that lives in one person’s head is a burnout problem. Her method, the Editor-Architect Framework, starts by removing what is in the way rather than adding something new. She holds a Master of Education from The College of William and Mary, a Bachelor of Arts from Marquette University, and a Certificate of Applied Positive Psychology from The Flourishing Center.
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