12 Important Steps When Hiring The Right Nonprofit Successor, by the Forbes Nonprofit Council
Among its twelve recommendations, this article recommends considering “a purposeful interim leader who can facilitate important transition work.”
Five Principles for Supporting Nonprofits During a Leadership Change
We are living in an era dubbed the “Great Resignation,” as millions of people worldwide are quitting their jobs and re-examining their priorities and values in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. This is especially pronounced within the nonprofit sector, which has always struggled with high turnover rates. Read more in this article from Inside [...]
Nonprofit Executive Search – Do You Need an Interim Executive Director?
When a nonprofit Executive Director/CEO leaves, the Board of Directors often faces the question of whether to bring in an Interim Executive Director. Read more in this article from the Moran Company.
Navigating Succession: Four Exiting CEO Mindsets
What determines a company’s readiness for navigating a CEO transition? Our proposed answer builds upon prior research on CEO succession, viewed through a novel theoretical lens based on generativity theory and the mindset of the exiting CEO. Read more in this article from Nonprofit Quarterly.
What to Do AFTER You Fire Your Executive Director
The circumstances surrounding most executive director terminations are often more complicated than they appear. I’ll leave the termination process to the legal experts. Instead, this article by Don Tebbe covers how to put the organization back on track after the inevitable trauma of a termination.
What Does an Equitable Executive Leadership Transition Look Like?
As the country grapples with systemic and structural inequality, nonprofits struggle to play the civic role they should play because they struggle with their own internal unequal systems. Read more in this article from Nonprofit Quarterly.
Interim Executives: Added Value in Transition
When I left my last full-time nonprofit executive position after nine years, I felt a duty to stay until the last moment. I was approached at the time by a firm that suggested an interim executive as part of the transition process. I quickly declined, determined to finish the job in the way I [...]
Nonprofit Leadership at a Crossroads
We are in a moment of seismic change. The fault lines are both generational and demographic. And nearly every organization has been hit by collapsing expectations and flying debris. Read more in the article from Nonprofit Quarterly.
Nonprofit community faces challenges as “baby-boomers” leave the field
The baby-boomer generation grew up in a period of social and political change, and many of them channeled their passions into mission-driven careers in the non-profit sector. As these leaders face retirement and transition in their own lives, the non-profit organizations they have founded and run are facing transitions for which they are usually [...]
Succession planning
Most non-profit organizations are familiar with the benefits of a strategic plan – the immediate benefit of mindful thinking about mission, goals and strategies, as well as the future benefit of having a well-thought out plan to refer to over time, and as circumstances change. However, according to BoardSource’s “Leading with Intent” report, only [...]