“I Believe That True Happiness Lies Beneath Helping People in Need and Doing Good to Others.” — Julien Serrano-O’Neil, ACNP
The Impact Brief Podcast.
Practical insight, candid conversations, and actionable strategy for professionals working across nonprofit leadership, higher education, public service, civic engagement, and social impact.
Insight for people doing the work.
The Impact Brief Podcast was created to make strategy more practical, accessible, and useful for professionals navigating complex institutions, communities, and leadership environments.
Real challenges. Useful conversations.
Each episode breaks down real-world challenges, highlights sector leaders, and explores ideas that can help organizations and professionals lead more effectively. Whether the conversation is about launching a nonprofit, strengthening a campus initiative, building partnerships, navigating public policy, or communicating impact, the focus stays on what leaders can actually use.
Actionable tools and ideas that can move from conversation into organizational practice.
Honest discussion about the complexity, responsibility, and realities of leadership.
Perspectives from nonprofit, education, civic, government, business, and social-impact environments.
Conversations built around impact.
Episodes will move across leadership, strategy, organizational development, communications, fundraising, student success, policy, partnerships, and the realities shaping mission-driven work.
Strategy & Leadership
How leaders make decisions, set direction, and move organizations through complexity.
Nonprofit & Community Impact
Governance, fundraising, partnerships, programs, capacity, and social impact.
Higher Education & Student Success
Student engagement, leadership, campus initiatives, and institutional strategy.
Civic & Public Leadership
Public policy, civic engagement, communications, and community-centered leadership.
Julien Serrano-O'Neil
Hosted by the Founder, President, and CEO of The JSO Consulting Group, The Impact Brief brings together Julien's experience across nonprofit leadership, higher education, civic engagement, communications, organizational strategy, and community impact with conversations from leaders working across sectors.
Built for leaders who want more than theory.
The Impact Brief is designed for professionals who want practical perspective, stronger strategy, and conversations grounded in real institutional and community experience.
Coming to the platforms you already use.
The series is currently listed as launching soon. Once episodes go live, this section can be updated with direct listening and viewing links.
Have a story, perspective, or topic worth exploring?
The Impact Brief welcomes ideas for future conversations, guest recommendations, sector challenges, and topics that can help leaders think differently and lead more effectively.