PEAK Demo Days | Grantbook

Are You Ready? Core Practices to Drive Your Journey Toward Operational Excellence

To design world-class processes and maximize the value of your technology, you need more than just tools—you need a mindset and approach grounded in operational excellence.

At Grantbook, we work with funders around the globe who understand that operational excellence is essential for empowering changemakers and driving meaningful impact. In this webinar, we’ll explore two foundational practices that will help ensure your organization is consistently progressing on its path to excellence: Implementation Readiness and Change Readiness.

While operational excellence involves many moving parts, these two practices stand out as critical pillars—each targeting a different dimension of your organization:

1. Implementation Readiness – Are we equipped to execute and deliver?

This pillar focuses on your internal infrastructure: systems, processes, and roles. We’ll share practical ways to assess and strengthen your implementation readiness through tools such as process blueprints, role clarity frameworks (like RACIs), and decision-making models.

2. Change Readiness – Are we willing and able to evolve?

This practice focuses on the human side of change: culture, mindset, leadership, and learning agility. We’ll explore how to evaluate and build change readiness through methods like interestholder mapping, pulse surveys, and alignment on ownership and organizational goals.

Join us to learn how embedding these two practices into your day-to-day operations can create lasting impact and set your organization up for success—now and in the future.

Speakers

Nikki Barrett

Chief Executive Officer, Grantbook

Aisling Nolan

Philanthropy Solutions Consultant, Grantbook

Leyla Razeghi-Hutchison

Strategy & Design Service Lead, Grantbook

This session is part of PEAK’s Demo Days series, during which our vendor partners will be presenting live, virtual demonstrations of their products or services directly to the PEAK community. These demo sessions are open and complimentary to all in the PEAK community! Each session will be recorded and shared with registrants afterwards, and you can join as many as you’d like. You can learn more about other participating vendor partners here.