Bonnie Hudspeth

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Bonnie Hudspeth

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Introduction

Bonnie helps organizations achieve their goals through aligning their values, culture, and operations.

Bonnie helps people navigate transitions while designing systems and work culture to help teams thrive.

As an experienced facilitator, community organizer, and project manager, Bonnie brings over two decades of experience in the non-profit and cooperative sectors. Through system design, leadership development, and relationship and capacity building, she supports individuals and organizations in bridging the gap between strategic vision and concrete action.

Whether facilitating peer groups or meetings, building communities of practice, contributing to strategic planning, or supporting organizations in completing innovative projects, she uses an asset-based approach to development, noticing and drawing out people’s strengths and shared values to deepen connection and innovation.

Bonnie has an incredible understanding of both leadership and systems design. Her grasp of the factor of ‘culture’ within systems helped us identify and shed aspects that will not work for where our organization is headed. She helped us see it, then define the work culture we were committed to. The entire team was invested in the process because the unspoken could be spoken: attachments, fears, concerns about change. She guided us through those aspects that are essential — yet often swept under the rug — as an organization evolves. As the new Executive Director, I know our culture and systems are now aligned and fit the future my team and I are working toward.

JQ Hannah Executive Director, Food Co-op Initiative

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Bonnie loves serving as a sounding board, helping reveal unmet needs in individuals and organizations, facilitating leaders in connecting the dots, articulating what’s happening, and then creating an action plan to address them.

Served as trustee, helping to transform the organizational culture for the Cooperative Fund of the Northeast, advancing community-based, cooperative, and democratically owned or managed enterprises across the Northeastern United States.
Led Co-operative Development for the Neighboring Food Co-operative Association, supporting the shared learning, innovation, and success of more than 45 food co-ops and startup initiatives. This work included leading several food security and diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, communities of practice, peer learning groups, and supporting leadership development at food co-ops across the Northeast.
Co-created several organizations, including serving as the Project Manager to open the community-owned grocery store Monadnock Food Co-op (2013) in Keene, NH.
Master of Science degree in Sustainable Community Development from Antioch University New England (2008).
Bachelor of Arts degree in Environmental Studies and English Summa cum Laude and Honors in Environmental Studies from the University of Vermont (2004).
In 2020, Bonnie was honored at the national Up & Coming Food Co-op Conference as the year’s ‘Cooperative Champion’ for widely respected work with northeastern startups in the cooperative sector.
Bonnie was named an ‘Emerging Leader’ in 2010 by the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation, one of the United States’ largest community foundations.

Areas of expertise

Facilitation
Systems design
Transition planning
Leadership development
Strategic planning
Meeting and retreat design and facilitation