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Exiting Your Nonprofit leadership role Gracefully with Don Tebbe

9/28/2021

In episode 32 of Mission: Impact, some of the topics that Carol and her guest, Don Tebbe discussed include:

How organizations can best manage transition
Why it is important for the outgoing director to take care of themselves
How boards might need to change to accommodate a transition

Guest Information: Don Tebbe is an organizational planning consultant and one of America’s most experienced advisors on nonprofit CEO transition and leadership succession. He experienced, first-hand, the challenges of sustaining an organization and navigating leadership succession as a former nonprofit executive director and five-time interim CEO. Since 1993, he’s helped hundreds of nonprofit leaders plan for and manage turnover in their chief executive positions. Don was one of the national thought leaders involved in an Annie E. Casey Foundation-sponsored project to develop better practices for nonprofit leadership succession. Many of the concepts and practices used by succession practitioners today originated with the Casey project. He is the author of Chief Executive Transitions: How to Hire & Support a Nonprofit CEO and The Nonprofit CEO Succession Roadmap: Your Guide for the Journey to Life’s Next Chapter.

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Nonprofit Advocacy with Sharon Anderson

9/14/2021

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In episode 31 of Mission: Impact, some of the topics that Carol and her guest, Sharon Anderson discussed include:

What lobbying consists of and how organizations can get involved
The constraints placed on lobbying and other ways to help
The legislative process and why nonprofits have a lot to offer in the arena of public policy

Guest Information: Sharon Anderson has been engaged with nonprofit boards of directors in several capacities: president, member, interim executive director, and consultant. As CEO of Anderson & Associates, LLC, Sharon strengthens teams and organizations through personalized governance training, advocacy training, meeting facilitation, and project management. As a Licensed Consultant of the Standards for Excellence® program, Sharon has conducted Board excellence trainings. She has also designed and presented advocacy training for nonprofits through the Center for Nonprofit Advancement in Washington, DC. Anderson & Associates, LLC provided project management, meeting facilitation, and policy development services to the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture.
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Exiting Your Nonprofit leadership role Gracefully with Don Tebbe

Nonprofit Advocacy with Sharon Anderson

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