Published work on leadership, organizational health, and the questions organizations keep avoiding.
Amplify Impact, the forthcoming book co-authored with Joel Swanson and Curt Swindoll, is built on The Structural Health Study™ — research into why nonprofit leadership teams succeed or stall. The Summer 2026 Nonprofit edition publishes shortly. The VED Framework used in the Painpointing Assessment™ on this site comes directly out of that work.
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Amplify Impact
Jay Strear with Joel Swanson and Curt Swindoll — drawn from The Structural Health Study, Summer 2026 Nonprofit edition.
Nonprofit leaders are not failing for lack of commitment or clarity about the mission. They are failing because no one ever gave them an operating system — the same discipline that has already reshaped thousands of for-profit organizations.
The book works by sequenced recognition: name the pain precisely enough that the reader feels seen, name the structural cause underneath it rather than the symptom, then hand over a field-tested tool. It is written to move a leader from I know something is wrong and I don’t know what to I know exactly what is wrong, why it keeps happening, and what to do about it.
Recent writing on leadership, organizational health, and the questions that shape stronger organizations.
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