Successful leadership transition doesn’t just happen. It requires foresight, planning, and time and financial investment.
Today’s episode kicks off a regular conversation series between iCouldBe’s Executive Director, Kate Schrauth and Road to Lead’s host, M. Michelle Derosier. With Michelle set to succeed Kate as iCouldBe’s ED in 2025, theirs is a real-life case study of a succession planning process in progress.
This transparent chat covers:
- Importance of trust in the succession process
- Getting buy-in from your Board
- Making the hard decisions about staff and organizational priorities
- Race and gender in nonprofit leadership
- Nonprofits living their DEI statements
- Legal agreements are crucial
Are you thinking about your own succession future? You won’t want to miss this series!
Resources
This is a link to the draft document that iCouldBe is continually updating for the succession planning process. Eventually, the document will create the basis for the legal succession contract that iCouldBe Board will sign with Michelle.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/phj1sdud22h9qmc/iCouldBe_ED_Succession_Planning_Draft_Example.pdf?dl=0
Nonprofit So White article: https://medium.com/swlh/nonprofit-so-white-960a33c7fcfa
Connect with Kate
About Kate
Kate studied political science with a focus on social movements at Boston University and for the past 30 years has created, led or grown youth-driven organizations such as Artists for Humanity, Harvard Student Agencies, and Jumpstart.
Today Kate helps iCouldBe live its mission to help thousands of teens reach their true potential and is especially passionate about engaging the many mentors, schools, companies, and supporters who make mentoring possible.
When she’s not leading iCouldBe to new heights, you can find Kate cooking gourmet meals for family, friends, and colleagues, remodeling a room in her home with her talented husband Brian or walking her dogs, Bandit and Finn, on the beach.
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