Kathy Archer, Silver River Coaching

Kathy Archer, Silver River Coaching Helping nonprofit women leader ditch survival mode, lead with confidence & thriving in leadership!

✨Helping W O M E N 🌸L E A D E RS make it in the NONPROFIT world with confidence + COMPOSURE
✅Growing Your Emotional Intelligence
📙 Author of - Mastering Confidence
⭐️Leadership Development Coach - ICF
🇨🇦Proudly Canadian

09/17/2026

Nonprofit leaders, part of your job is helping your employees manage their workload.

That means more than asking, “How are you doing?”

You need to help them make decisions about the work itself.

1️⃣ Projects
What are they actually working on right now?

2️⃣ Priorities
What needs attention first, and what can wait?

3️⃣ Pace
How quickly does this really need to get done?

And just as importantly:

4️⃣ What are we NOT doing?
What can be delegated?
What can come off the to do list?
What can be delayed?
What can we stop doing altogether?

Your employees should not be left alone to figure out how to make an impossible workload fit.

Leadership includes helping people decide what matters most and what no longer belongs on their plate.

If leadership feels heavy and you want support navigating situations like this, send me a message. I am the coach nonprofit leaders turn to when leadership gets hard.

I know ACHIEVER intimately! It is one of my top 5 CliftonStrengths.I am an overachiever with high expectations of myself...
09/16/2026

I know ACHIEVER intimately! It is one of my top 5 CliftonStrengths.

I am an overachiever with high expectations of myself and everyone around me!
That can be exhausting! 😮‍💨

For years I thought the tiredness was just the price of being good at my job.

But it turns out I was running my ACHIEVER strength at full speed without ever learning how to manage it 🤦‍♀️

When I learned about the ACHIEVER strength and what it meant and how it worked, things made a lot more sense.

That didn’t immediately fix how exhausted I felt. But when I learned to change the thoughts in my head, I noticed a shift.

I learned to stop asking.
- Why can’t I keep up?
And started asking
- What am I actually doing with this drive?

Learning how to manage and use my strengths made a huge difference.

If you want to learn to do that, my upcoming course, Leading from Strengths, teaches you exactly that.

The fall series starts October 16. Link in bio or DM me with questions!

09/15/2026

I recently joined Kimberly Bottom 🎙️ at Nonprofit Diaries to share a real story from my journey in nonprofit work....one where I thought I might get fired!

This podcast is about the moments that we all experience in the nonprofit sector, and it’s a reminder that we are not alone. If you work in or around nonprofits, I think you’ll relate and hope you’ll enjoy my story!

Listen to the full episode here and make sure to subscribe to nonprofitdiaries
https://lnkd.in/gk8uQipS.

09/14/2026

Nonprofit leaders, if you want to lead in a more sustainable way, start challenging the beliefs that keep you pushing.

You know the ones:

“I just have to get it done.”

“Don’t put off until tomorrow what you can do today.”

“I just need to power through.”

Those beliefs are not necessarily wrong.

In fact, they may be part of what helped you become successful.

But what got you here may not get you to the next level of leadership.

So when one of those thoughts shows up, ask yourself a second question.

“I’m a hard worker.”
➡️ But am I working hard in a sustainable way?

“You just have to do what you have to do.”
➡️ But what do I actually have to do today?

“I need to power through.”
➡️ But what would happen if I slowed down instead?

That second question creates space between the belief and your behaviour.

It gives you a chance to choose instead of automatically pushing harder.

Sustainable leadership does not mean becoming less committed.

It means becoming more intentional about where your energy goes.

Ask the second question.

If leadership feels heavy and you want support navigating situations like this, send me a message. I am the coach nonprofit leaders turn to when leadership gets hard.

If you are like me, you struggle with delegating. Many nonprofit leaders do!But let’s be honest, you probably do it “rig...
09/12/2026

If you are like me, you struggle with delegating. Many nonprofit leaders do!

But let’s be honest, you probably do it “right” or quicker, so delegating often feels like you’re giving away quality, and it’s going to take you way longer to explain it than to just do it yourself!

You need to learn how to give up control, even though you know you could do it better and faster yourself.

So... somehow you end up doing everything yourself.

But that doesn’t help your employees grow, and true leadership is about empowering others to reach their full potential.

You don’t want to always do it for them or hover while they do it. But let’s be honest, don’t you kind of want them to do it your way? ;-)

Your job as a leader is to actually support them, sharing what you know, and helping them grow into it, even when it’s slower or messier than if you’d just done it yourself.

It starts with you, changing your thoughts:
* Even though it takes longer, delegating is growing my team, so in the long run, they will be better at it, and it will easily come off my plate.
* It took me time to learn this back in the day, and the world didn’t fall apart when I made mistakes.
* I know my employee has potential in this area; I just need to give them a chance.

In Character Driven Leadership for Women, I walk you through how to supervise your team in an inspiring, motivating way.

Grab the first chapter for free. Link in bio

09/11/2026

Nonprofit leaders, tired of feeling like you’re winging it?

When the pressure rises, you don’t need a perfect plan. You need a way to get yourself out of panic mode and back into intentional leadership.

Try these three things:

1️⃣ PAUSE

Notice what’s happening in your body.

Tight shoulders. Racing heart. Shallow breathing. That feeling that everything is suddenly urgent.

Those sensations are often your first clue that anxiety or panic is building.

2️⃣ Pay attention to your thoughts

Notice when your thinking starts spiralling.

“I’m never going to get this all done.”
“I don’t know what I’m doing.”
“Everything is falling apart.”

Catch those thoughts and rein them in before they take over.

3️⃣ PLAN

It doesn’t need to be complicated.

Write three bullet points on a sticky note.

Create a quick 1-2-3 plan in your head.

Decide what you’re doing first, second and third.

A mini plan can be enough to help you feel more grounded, focused and in control.

You don’t have to stop feeling overwhelmed before you can lead well.

You just need to stop winging it long enough to choose your next step.

If leadership feels heavy and you want support navigating situations like this, send me a message. I am the coach nonprofit leaders turn to when leadership gets hard.

You’re standing outside the meeting room, coffee in hand, and you have no idea what you’re actually going to say in ther...
09/07/2026

You’re standing outside the meeting room, coffee in hand, and you have no idea what you’re actually going to say in there.

* Maybe it’s a 1-1 with someone on your team.
* Maybe it’s the staff meeting you keep putting off planning for.

Either way, you know exactly how this goes...You’ll wing it 🦋

It’ll be fine, probably 😑

But you’ll walk away feeling like you could’ve done better if you’d just had five minutes to get your head straight first.

That feeling and how to prevent it is what we’re digging into this Friday in The Training Library.

The session is called Tired of Winging It? and it’s exactly what it sounds like.

We’re talking about what “prepared” actually looks like (hint: it’s different for everyone), how to get there even when you have almost no time, and why this one habit quietly makes you a better leader.

This is a members-only session. Live, unrecorded, small group.

You’ll learn a bit, then we talk it through together and you get real coaching on your actual situation, not a hypothetical one.

Not a member yet? This is a good week to become one.

👉 Join The Training Library: kathyarcher.com/library

🔗 Link in bio

Which nonprofit leader isn’t so insanely busy?You are overloaded, juggling way too many competing priorities. It’s no wo...
09/01/2026

Which nonprofit leader isn’t so insanely busy?

You are overloaded, juggling way too many competing priorities. It’s no wonder you’re feeling like your head is spinning.

When you’re juggling that much, something has to give💁‍♀️

The thing that gives is usually something you said you would do. Something you committed to.

And when that happens, when you let someone down, you feel like crap for it.

But here’s the thing:
✅Following through on what you say you’ll do builds trust.
😑Not following through damages it.

I know you want to do what you say, follow through on your commitments, and do what feels right. That’s what makes you a values-driven, ethical, moral leader.

I know that’s not because you didn’t mean to. But when you don’t follow through, your reputation takes the hit anyway.

A leader who can’t follow through, even for good reasons, gets harder to rely on.

The fix isn’t doing more.
👉It’s getting intentional about what you commit to in the first place.

In Character Driven Leadership for Women, I walk you through how to do exactly that.

Grab the first chapter for free.
Link in the bio

You’re running like a chicken with its head cut off all day, fighting fires all day, every day.You know you are so in th...
08/18/2026

You’re running like a chicken with its head cut off all day, fighting fires all day, every day.
You know you are so in the weeds that you’re just reacting to the leakiest buckets.

And God knows there is always someone who needs you right now! 🙄

Sound familiar?

The magnitude of everything that lands on your desk means everyone believes they’re a priority. And when everyone’s a priority, nothing is.

And you get lost in all of it 🙁

But before you can clear the backlog of what everyone else needs, the demands of your job and the emotional load you carry, you must slow down and do a bit of self-reflection, growth and, yes, soul searching.

The truth is, to effectively manage others, you must first learn to manage yourself.

That means paying attention to your essence, your emotions, and your energy.
(📘 More about that in Character Driven Leadership for Women)

Effective leaders are good at
- Tuning into their thoughts, recognizing which ones aren’t helping them be their best, and then changing those thoughts.
- Setting boundaries even when it feels uncomfortable.

In Character Driven Leadership for Women, I walk you through how to do exactly that.
Grab the first chapter for free.

Link in bio

08/17/2026

Nonprofit leaders, trust is not built because you tell your team they can trust you.

Trust is both a feeling and a cognitive assessment.

Your employees are continually asking themselves:

Do I feel safe with this person?

AND

Based on what I have seen them do, can I rely on them?

That means trust is built through your actions.

You say you have an open-door policy. Do you actually make time to listen?

You say you value your staff. Do your decisions demonstrate that?

You say you will follow up. Do you?

You say one thing in the staff meeting. Does your behaviour afterwards match it?

Your words matter, but your actions need to align with them.

Because your team is assessing you with both their head and their gut.

And when those two things consistently tell them, “Yes, I can trust this person,” they are much more willing to engage, follow your leadership, and work alongside you.

Trust is not something you ask for.

It is something your team experiences.

If leadership feels heavy and you want support navigating situations like this, send me a message. I am the coach nonprofit leaders turn to when leadership gets hard.

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