The Challenge: Nonprofit Leadership Transitions.
A leadership transition within a nonprofit organization—whether planned or unplanned—can be challenging for Board, staff, volunteers, and donors. For Board members whose nonprofit organization is facing an Executive Director transition, it can be difficult to know how to best handle the day-to-day management while you search for the right person to lead your organization into the future. You may consider promoting a current staff member to acting manager, hiring a consultant, or just soldiering on with the leadership vacancy; however, none of those options seem like the right one for the health of your organization.
While it is challenging, often the organization can benefit from this opportunity to take a “deep breath.” An executive leadership transition provides the Board of Directors a chance to reassess capacity, priorities, mission relevance, and leadership structure. Because this transition period can be critical to the future success of the organization, such an important decision should not be rushed.
With an interim executive, it doesn’t have to be.
Benefits of Interim Leadership.
An interim executive gives your Board the time, information, and insight necessary to understand and address your organization’s challenges and select the next leader for your nonprofit.
An experienced interim leader can:
Benefits of Interim Leadership.
An interim executive gives your Board the time, information, and insight necessary to understand and address your organization’s challenges and select the next leader for your nonprofit.
An experienced interim leader can:
The Solution: Bay Area Interim Executive Directors.
When you select an experienced executive from our group of Bay Area Interim Executive Directors, your nonprofit benefits from a focused, compassionate, and equity-minded professional, best suited to your organization, to build or increase stability until you hire your next Executive Director. BAIED provides you with access to our executives who will help your organization during this critical time. We do not charge any fees to either the organizations we work with, or to our members.
Serving nonprofits in the San Francisco Bay Area, Northern California, and beyond, BAIED members have led organizations of varying sizes, with diverse missions, clients, and budgets during critical periods of change.
Several of the Bay Area nonprofits our interims have served with:
“Our organization hired a BAIED member as the Interim Executive Director during a leadership transition period from a founding ED. She was an amazing and unexpected mentor, manager, trainer strategist and colleague. She helped both staff and Board be better leaders, step up in our roles and prepare us as we moved to hire, support and work with a new Executive Director.”
“The BAIED interim we hired stepped into our 6 county, 150 employee, $18 million organization during our beloved ED’s maternity leave, and did not miss a step, and actually moved a few items forward – all while ensuring our ED could seamlessly step back into the organization. We are pleased and grateful!”
“From his very first days with us, the BAIED interim brought calm to our organization, where he was quickly able to assess what was needed to keep the staff productive and engaged. There was no lapsed time in gaining the complete confidence of our Board. Old and new members alike were impressed with his ability to correct ingrained deficiencies in former operations and management. His clear communication, insightful analysis, and creative visions afforded our Board the opportunity to really see our organization for what is was and could be.”
“The BAIED member we hired is an outstanding professional who can step into any situation and bring clarity and direction. Her skill and experience in non-profit management spans every aspect of the business: budgeting, grant writing, negotiations, fundraising, change management, and more. She very quickly gets to know the organization and the people, and rolls up her sleeves and gets to work with staff and trustees. Her passion for helping organizations is clear, and she inspires those around her.”
