A Guide to Recruiting Your Next CEO: The Executive Search Handbook for Nonprofit Boards

A Guide to Recruiting Your Next CEO: The Executive Search Handbook for Nonprofit Boards

Recent studies estimate that more than 75% of current nonprofit executives plan to leave their positions in the next five to ten years. What will you do when you need to recruit a new executive for your nonprofit’s leadership team? Hiring and onboarding a CEO is one of the most important (and challenging) actions a board will ever undertake. Choosing a poor match will require you to repeat the search within a year, at best. At worst, it can have devastating consequences for your organization’s mission. Recruit your next CEO knowing that you have identified an individual whose core leadership competencies and values align with your strategic vision and mission. Dennis C. Miller is a nationally recognized strategic leadership coach and executive search consultant with more than thirty-five years of experience working with nonprofit board leadership and chief executives. In A Guide to Recruiting Your Next CEO , Dennis provides a handbook that can be used by any nonprofit board to guide their executive search efforts and feel confident that the outcome will be a positive one for their organization. In it, you'll learn: What the search process entails - How to develop a position profile for your ideal CEO - How knowing your strategic vision will help choose the right candidate - Which key leadership competencies and values will help your organization thrive - Who should be on your search committee - How to go about identifying and screening candidates - What the interview process consists of - Why checking references is critical - How to negotiate a compensation package that works for everyone - How to ensure your new CEO stands the best chance for success possible If this guidance sounds like something your nonprofit organization could use right now, you'll want to buy this book! Read what your peers are saying about this book "As you know, hiring and onboarding a CEO is one of the most important actions a board will ever undertake. So often, even experienced boards struggle to find the right person and are challenged by the process. I think this book will provide a solid set of guardrails for any nonprofit board in their next search for a CEO." David A. Williams, President & CEO, Make-A-Wish America "Dennis' new book is a very useful outline for nonprofit boards of directors of the need for the board to rethink about the whole executive recruitment process, especially since most board members only go through this once or twice. The risks of getting it wrong are too high." Jim Purcell, Chief Executive Officer Council of Family and Child Caring Agencies As you know, hiring and onboarding a CEO is one of the most important actions a board will ever undertake. So often, even experienced boards struggle to find the right person and are challenged by the process. I think this book will provide a solid set of guardrails for any non-profit board in their next search for a CEO. David A. Williams, President & CEO, Make-A-Wish America Miller continues to provide the nonprofit community and its leaders with practical, hands-on guides that address essential topics that create opportunities and help to overcome the challenges that may arise. This book is no different. In it, board members and other decision makers are encouraged to ask themselves key questions that shape the recruiting situation, including the interview process, the final selection - and most importantly, the integration of the new CEO into the organization's hierarchy to ensure a successful transition. Even those organizations that are not actively looking for a CEO at this time will find this information valuable for the future when they do face this critical juncture. All of us know that CEOs set the tone for the organization, making the role a critical one, and if 75% of all organizations will undergo a change in CEOs in the next five to ten years, this guide will be more essential than ever. Sally Glick, Principal and Chief Growth Strategist, Sobel & Co., LLC Dennis' new book is a very useful outline for nonprofit boards of directors of the need for the board to rethink about the whole executive recruitment process, especially since most board members only go through this once or twice. The risks of getting it wrong are too high. Jim Purcell, Chief Executive Officer, Council of Family and Child Caring Agencies of New York A Guide for Recruiting Your Next CEO: The Executive Search Handbook for Nonprofit Boards by Dennis C. Miller is and easy read and a "must read" for board members as well as those seeking a new CEO position. It is an invaluable resource; a thorough and comprehensive step-by- step guide filled with useful detail, suggestions and illustrations of dos and don'ts. Miller presents the basic material in a reader-friendly style so it can be scanned for specific aspects and details of each step but also follows with a conversational narrative providing rationales, reassurance and examples from his own career as a CEO and a Board Chair