Thomas Aschenbrener

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About Thomas Aschenbrener

EXECUTIVE PROFILE:Thomas Aschenbrener is an ASPIRATIONAL THINKER and LEADER of work to advance community wellbeing. Leadership in the non-profit sector requires compassion and understanding of community needs. Leadership requires exploring ideas and crafting strategies to build progress towards sustainability in the lives of people and the community. Leadership requires the humility to listen to and work from within the cultural mores and values of the community we serve. Leadership is about possibilities. Leadership is about the ability to bring work tasks back into balance if they stray from the mission. Leadership is about having a strong fiscal understanding of organizational management. Leadership for today and the future requires clarity of purpose in terms of the benefits to those we serve rather than a focus on what we do. Aschenbrener is a manager and LEADER of people, keeping the focus on advancing the organizational mission. Being a good manager of people requires the astute hiring of the right people and the ability to allow them to experience their own creativity and authority over their work. A strategy that creates clear paths to success for our staff and clients.Aschenbrener is an AGENT OF SOCIAL CHANGE. Every nonprofit service organization exists within the environment of embedded social/structural barriers to success as well as individual barriers to success. Improvement of the social condition requires being an intentional advocate for change of policies, rules and laws that create barriers to success for those without privilege. ENVISIONING the future, LEARNING from the past, with an honest UNDERSTANDING of the way things are at the present is at the core of Aschenbrener's work thriving community is a mosaic of people where each remains distinct. It is NOT a melting pot of assimilation. It is about appreciating the unique contributions of everyone to the wellbeing of all."