Brian Quail

Harvard Business Review has reported that one-third to one-half of new CEOs fail in their first eighteen months on the job.

If you serve on a nonprofit’s board of directors, you can expect to navigate a change of leadership every five years. It takes seven to ten months to recruit a new CEO, at a cost of tens of thousands of dollars and countless hours of your and your employees’ time.

Why do transitions fail - and so quickly?

It takes over a year before a new CEO can fully contribute to and integrate with a new nonprofit. This year-long window is when employees, partners, and funders can lose confidence in their organization if the new leader fails to fully connect to those groups.

The skills, processes, and procedures required for a nonprofit leader to thrive and sync with a nonprofit are enormous and too often unfamiliar. This lack of connection to the people snowballs into problems in organizational management, motivation, staffing, funding, and elsewhere.

It doesn't have to be this way.

I provide executive coaching for first-time nonprofit CEOs. By following my program, you will experience smoother onboarding, longer tenure, and reduced stress.

You will reach your leadership potential faster and more effectively than otherwise possible.

After four decades in the nonprofit world and twenty-five of those years as a successful CEO, I am specifically prepared to help you create better results for you, your board, and the community you serve.

I have a proven track record and a system that can help you:

  • lay the groundwork for your leadership;
  • clarify agendas among the board, new CEO, partners, and staff; 
  • create precise orders of operation; 
  • craft powerful, results-oriented frameworks that lead to the greatest impacts where your organization needs them most; 
  • determine and adopt systems that lead to increased consistency and a more robust organization and community. 

Great nonprofit CEOs aren't hired - they're made.

To learn more about how you can achieve great results, contact Brian.