# Chanda Smith Baker

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Leading a Community Foundation | How can we amplify our impact?

In this episode of the Power of Possible, Dr. Tashion Macon and Chanda Smith Baker take listeners inside what it means to lead a community foundation. Chanda describes a community foundation as the place where generosity meets purpose and legacy, bringing together people who care deeply about their…

Being the First | How does identity shape the way we lead?

In this episode of the the Power of Possible: Leadership Edition, Dr. Tashion Macon and Chanda Smith Baker explore the often unspoken weight and responsibility of legacy in leadership. This is a conversation about what it means to lead as your full self in spaces that weren’t necessarily built with…

The Ripple Effect: How do leadership decisions drive change?

In this episode of the Power of Possible, Dr. Tashion Macon and Chanda Smith Baker reflect on what it takes to lead with steadiness when everything around you feels uncertain. Grounded in moments when Minnesota was thrust into the national spotlight, Chanda shares how she resisted the pull of urgen…

Unscripted Leadership: Where does one’s leadership journey begin?

In this Unscripted Leadership episode of the Power of Possible, Dr. Tashion Macon invites listeners to take a deeper look at where Chanda Smith Baker’s leadership was first shaped. Their conversation traces back to her childhood. Growing up among neighbors with diverse lived experiences and in a fa…

The Power of Possibility: Why is This Important in Leadership

This is the opening episode of the Power of Possible: Leadership Edition, an eight-episode leadership podcast and video series featuring conversations between leadership coach Dr. Tashion Macon and the Foundation’s President and CEO, Chanda Smith Baker. Created for this moment — and for the leaders…

Welcome to The Power of Possible: Leadership Edition

We’re excited to release The Power of Possible: Leadership Edition, a brand new, binge-worthy content series on all things leadership.  In this 8-episode series, Foundation President and CEO Chanda Smith Baker joins Dr. Tashion Macon for an honest exploration of leadership as a daily practice — on…

Minnesota's First Woman Lieutenant Governor | Marlene Johnson on Leadership, Courage & Legacy

Marlene Johnson was Minnesota's first woman lieutenant governor, a founder of NAWBO, and a leader who believes the only time you can't move forward is when you stop listening. In this conversation, she shares what it really means to be the first—and why that responsibility is ultimately about creat…

LIVE! Relationships Are Infrastructure: A Conversation with Hali Lee

Recorded live for the Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation's launch of the Power of Possible Giving Circle, Hali Lee — author of The Big We — joins Chanda Smith Baker to talk collective giving, "Big Phil," and why relationships are infrastructure. Find us:https://conversationswithchanda.com/IG @chanda…

What 25 Years Inside Wealth Protection Taught Me: A Conversation with Katherine Hayes

Katherine Hayes spent 25 years as portfolio manager for her family's investment partnership — managing wealth she didn't earn, inside a system built to protect it. In this conversation with Chanda Smith Baker, she opens up about "money morality": the guilt that can come with inherited wealth, the s…

Urgency Without Being Hurried | Chanda Smith Baker, President & CEO of the Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation

Chanda Smith Baker leads the largest community foundation in Minnesota — nearly $2 billion in charitable assets, more than 9,000 grants a year — and she came to the role with a career's worth of hard-won wisdom about how change actually happens. Her answer, again and again: not by rushing. In this …