Experts Online - Executive Transition: The Art of Hiring Leaders

Date Published: 06/06/2007

Author: LISC

According to three major nonprofit leadership studies, the war for talent is on. Nonprofits spend millions of dollars each year on executive search firms and talent scouts looking for new leadership. With more than 65% of nonprofit leaders saying they intend to leave their jobs between 2005 to 2010 and fewer entrants into the workforce, you can’t afford to leave the future of your organization to chance.

With everything else going on, who has time to plan for an executive transition? According to three major nonprofit leadership studies, the war for talent is on. Nonprofits spend millions of dollars each year on executive search firms and talent scouts looking for new leadership. With more than 65% of nonprofit leaders saying they intend to leave their jobs between 2005 to 2010 and fewer entrants into the workforce, you can’t afford to leave the future of your organization to chance.

In her new book The Art of Hiring Leaders, Barbara Gilvar walks the reader through a step-by-step guide for how to plan for and artfully manage your executive transition. This webcast discusses these steps and you'll also hear from on-the-ground experts, Executive Director Nanci Self and former Board Chair Jo Dangel who offer their own wisdom and insight on their successes and lessons-learned following their own organizational executive transition.

What You Will Learn

  • A step by step search process to help make knowledgeable and informed decisions throughout the search process.
  • Planning ahead to insure you have the tools.
  • How to build consensus and leadership around a vision for the future.
  • Creating the ideal search committee.
  • Ways to create your own model of communication for rapid response.

The Experts

  • Barbara Gilvar has more than 25 years of experience in nonprofit consulting and executive transition. She is the author of two books, The Art of Hiring Leaders: A Guide for Nonprofit Organizations and The Search Handbook. See highlights of her work at the Chronicle of Philanthropy and massnonprofits.org.
  • Nanci Self has served as Executive Director of Nazareth Housing Dev Corp in Akron, Ohio, for almost two years.
  • Jo Dangel is the immediate past Board Chair for Nazareth Housing Dev Corp in Akron, Ohio. She was a key leader in helping the CDC transition to the new executive director.

Who Would Be Interested

  • CDC executive directors and senior staff
  • CDC board members, executive committee and search committee members
  • Other nonprofit staff who partner with community development organizations
    engaged in developing organizational capacity

> Presentation Packet (PDF, 1.39 MB)
> Presentation Multimedia (ZIP, 7.8 MB)

Archive:
This session was conducted using Microsoft's Live Meeting and is available as streaming video/audio on Microsoft Live Meeting's website here.

Topic: Organizational & Professional Development

Type: Live Webcast - Experts Online