Jennifer Redmond Knight

In this powerful conversation, Kelly and Trena show us what real leadership looks like under pressure. From losing staff and navigating grief to rallying communities and rebuilding trust, these two leaders offer practical, inspiring lessons in how coalitions can adapt, persist—and even grow—through uncertainty.

Recently, we were joined by two seasoned Coalition leaders, Trena Mitchell of Arkansas and Kelly Wells Sitting of Iowa, to begin a conversation on change. In this episode, we discuss the inner work behind effective leadership.

Join our conversation this week as we discuss three things that don’t need to change even when everything around you is changing.

In today’s vlog we chat about new opportunities that arise from change. We provide a few questions you can use with your coalition partners to be proactive as needs for change arise.

This week, we had a great conversation around building trust during times of change. In our discussion, we leaned into concepts from both Stephen Covey and Brené Brown, and present you with questions you can ask yourself related to building trust with your partners and coalition members.

During this week’s Coalition Coaches Chat we continued to explore change and asked “Change; How am I managing it?”. Christi, Elizabeth and I reviewed our own personal change management styles along with our experiences as leaders in the coalition space during times of change. We invite you to reflect on the questions I brought up during the conversation.

During this week’s Coalition Coaches Chat we continued to explore change and asked “Change; How am I managing it?”. Christi, Elizabeth and I reviewed our own personal change management styles along with our experiences as leaders in the coalition space during times of change. We invite you to reflect on the questions I brought up during the conversation.

I’m pleased to share with you our first Coalition Coaches Chat as we begin our conversations around change and change management. Our topic this week is: Change: How do I react?

This first VLOG is an introduction to The Coalition Coaches. In the weeks to come we will be doing a deeper dive into change and change management.