mOp-Ed

Nonprofit CEO searches are infrequent, and most board members experience such a seminal event just once during their service to a particular nonprofit. This article provides a useful orientation for when that moment arrives.

Departures from a nonprofit’s c-suite can destabilize your org financially and operationally due to a nonprofit’s relatively lean executive bench, so it’s important to have the search for a replacement underway quickly.

Use of contingency recruiting often wastes time & money and harms nonprofits – don’t do it.

Our search consultants are routinely asked by nonprofit boards and their exiting chief executives about setting up a nonprofit CEO Search Committee. Below we’ll thoroughly discuss the Search Committee and its role, and at the end of this piece there are links to other useful articles on recruiting nonprofit leaders.