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Join us for our L.E.A.D. Webinar on October 15 called "Leadership Transition Readiness: What Every Nonprofit Board Should Know Before the Executive Seat Is Empty" led by Josh Kilgas and JD Gildemeister of Solutions for Changemakers.

If the executive director of a nonprofit you serve couldn't come in tomorrow, would the board know what to do?

For most, the honest answer is no. In BoardSource's national Leading with Intent study, nearly 2 in 3 nonprofits had no written plan for a leadership departure, whether expected or sudden. Yet 1 in 10 executives expects to leave within a year, and nearly 3 in 10 within three.

A leadership transition is one of the highest-risk moments a nonprofit will face, and one of the few times a board must go well beyond its normal role. Handled well, the mission continues without missing a beat. Handled poorly, the costs are real: stalled operations, lost funding relationships, staff turnover, and damaged community trust.

In this hour, we'll focus on the executive transition: what boards should have in place before one happens, how to prepare for both the planned and the unexpected, and where the board has to step up during a transition. Board members will leave knowing the questions to ask and the tools to put in place now. Nonprofit staff leaders will leave with a way to raise this with their board now, not in the middle of a transition.

What Participants Leave With:

• A broader understanding of leadership transition readiness and how to start board-level conversations about the most urgent gaps.
• A clearer view of temporary leadership options for short-, mid-, and long-term absences, including the difference between an internal active executive and an external interim executive.
• Access to a fillable digital workbook they can use after the session to go deeper, record observations, evaluate readiness across executive transition planning, leadership development, and organizational resilience, and plan next steps.
• A practical framework for turning the assessment into priorities that strengthen mission continuity and help the organization act before a vacancy creates unnecessary disruption.

Whether you serve on a nonprofit board, lead one, or expect to do either someday, you'll leave better prepared for a moment every organization eventually faces.

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