Executive Coaching
for Nonprofit CEOs
and Senior Leaders
Become the CEO your organization’s next stage requires.
Beyond the Hire is six months of high-touch executive coaching with a thinking partner who has been in the seat, for nonprofit CEOs and first-time C-suite executives navigating growth, complexity, and change.
I partner with a limited number of CEOs each year.
Most organizations treat a new CEO as a hire. It’s actually a transition.
In Beyond the Search, a national study I led, leaders described the same pattern again and again across 650+ survey responses, collected with survey partner Arts Consulting Group, and nearly 70 qualitative interviews. The gap is rarely about capability. It’s about the conditions around you, at the board table and in your own head. Closing that gap is the work.
NEARLY
80%
of leaders say their organizations treat leadership transitions as hiring events.
NEARLY
60%
of incoming CEOs are first-time chief executives.
“That much authority and that little power at the same time.”
A first-time CEO, from my national leadership transition study
Who This Is For
We coach nonprofit CEOs, executive directors, and first-time C-suite leaders. Coaching is right for you if:
You’re stepping into a new role or a new chapter of leadership with a lot riding on what comes next.
You’re inheriting complexity that wasn’t fully visible in the job description.
You want greater clarity with your board on priorities, expectations, authority, or what success looks like.
You’re navigating decisions you can’t always work through with your board or senior team.
Many of the leaders we work with are the first to hold their seat, or the only one in the room who looks like them, in a funding and political environment where the stakes are high and the room for error is small.
What’s Included
Beyond the Hire is a six-month engagement built around what’s actually on your desk. It can stand alone or sit alongside advisory work.
A clear starting point. A CliftonStrengths assessment to build on what already makes you effective, plus anonymized 360 feedback from your board and leadership team.
Ongoing partnership. Sessions every two weeks, with on-call access in between for the moments that can’t wait.
A look ahead. A six-month review of your progress and your next-stage priorities.
16:1
RETURN ON INVESTMENT
Reported by Darra Gordon, CEO, Family Equality, within three months.
9-FIGURE
GIFT SOLICITATION
By a coaching client to a new donor prospect CKF identified.
TRUSTED BY LEADERS ACROSS THE NONPROFIT SECTOR
Client Testimonials
Why Work With Me
5x
Interim Executive
20+
Years of nonprofit and cultural sector leadership
$1B+
Public and private investment raised across my career
ACC
Brown University trained executive coach, credentialed by the International Coaching Federation
. . .