How to Manage Up Without Melting Down
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Communicate effectively, influence upward, and anticipate leadership needs.
Emma Kieran shares practical tools to help strengthen your relationship with your manager.
Are you struggling to find clarity, collaboration, and strategic alignment with your boss? Managing up is a vital skill, especially when you and your supervisor are both juggling long to-do lists.
Join Emma Kieran to learn practical tools to help strengthen your relationship with your manager that will lead to effective communication, influencing upward, and anticipating leadership needs.
Join us on Wednesday, February 25, 2026
at 2:00 pm US Eastern, 11:00 am US Pacific
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About Emma
Bringing over 20 years of professional and volunteer fundraising experience, Emma Gilmore Kieran started Pilot Peak Consulting in
2014. Emma has worked with over 150 nonprofits as a teacher, partner and change agent. Past projects include development planning and implementation, capital campaign management,
event management, interim staffing, board building, and strategic planning.
Prior to founding Pilot Peak Consulting, Emma was the Vice President for Fundraising and Development at Orr Associates, Inc. (OAI) and a Senior Director at Changing Our World, both nationally recognized fundraising consulting firms in Washington, DC. During her tenure at OAI, she served as the Regional Chief Development Officer for three different regions of the American Red Cross, including the North Jersey Region where Emma helped raise over $20 million in response to Superstorm Sandy. At Changing Our World, in addition to client work, Emma was a writer for Future Leaders in Philanthropy, an online blog for young philanthropists. Before working as a consultant, Emma was a frontline fundraiser and a teacher.
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Learn practical tools to help strengthen your relationship with your manager.