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Beyond Productivity: Rachel Currie Triska on Leading with Purpose and Building Organizations Where People Thrive
- Discover how Rachel Currie Triska shares practical leadership strategies for building purpose driven, people first organizations.
About the episode
What if we’ve been measuring leadership success all wrong?
On this episode of Doing Good by Doing Better, Margaret Rogers sits down with Rachel Currie Triska, CEO of VolunteerNow, one of North Texas’ largest volunteer organizations, to explore why the future of leadership depends less on productivity and more on building organizations where people can truly thrive. Drawing from her experience leading organizational transformation, Rachel shares how human centric leadership, intentional innovation, and healthier organizational systems create lasting impact, not just for employees, but for the communities they serve.
Together, Margaret and Rachel discuss:
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Why great leaders should measure team energy, not just productivity.
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How human-centered design helps organizations innovate by listening to the people closest to the problem.
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Why burnout is often a systems issue—not an individual one—and how leaders can build healthier, more sustainable teams.
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Why human connection remains a leader’s greatest advantage in an increasingly digital world.
Whether you lead a nonprofit, a business, or a growing team, this conversation offers practical insights on building resilient cultures, fostering innovation, and creating organizations where both people and ideas can flourish. If you’re looking to lead with purpose while building an organization that thrives, this episode will leave you with a fresh perspective on what great leadership looks like.
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About the guest
Rachel Currie Triska is CEO of VolunteerNow, where she is reimagining volunteerism as essential social infrastructure that connects people to purpose at scale. She is known for building bold, human-centered solutions alongside communities and partners, with a focus on turning connection into measurable impact. At her core, Rachel is a listener and a builder who believes the best ideas emerge when diverse voices come together to create something bigger than any one of us.
About the host
Margaret Rogers, the Host of the Doing Good by Doing Better Podcast, serves as the CEO of Pariveda Solutions, a strategy and technology services firm with a mission to help people develop, catalyze, and discover their potential. She found her way into consulting right out of school, back when dial-up, blinking text, and wallpaper backgrounds defined the web. As User Experience began to emerge, she transitioned from technologist to roles where she was able to explore human-centered design. Margaret is fascinated by the uniqueness of human dynamics in business and is deeply invested in advising leaders on how to design organizations that nurture a strong culture and operational excellence. Her love of learning also extends well beyond the workplace, most recently into the curious behaviors of sourdough starters and backyard hens, who, much like people, have a surprising amount to teach about rhythms, relationships, and the environments they need to thrive.
About the Doing Good by Doing Better podcast
Hosted by Margaret Rogers, CEO of Pariveda, the Doing Good by Doing Better podcast highlights founders, executives, and innovators who share hard lessons, bold ideas, and real strategies for purpose-driven growth.
Every conversation offers practical insights you can use to solve forward. In each episode you’ll meet leaders who prove that being impact-driven and achieving meaningful success are not mutually exclusive.
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