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Nonprofit CEOs carry decisions they can't fully discuss with their board, their team, or their peers. So they carry them alone. Each week, Adam Jeske, The Nonprofit CEO Advisor, sits down with a nonprofit CEO to go inside the decisions they carry: the agonizing restructure, the wonky board dynamic, the moment that defined their tenure. Adam has been in over 230 of these conversations. The patterns are striking and valuable. This podcast surfaces them so you can lead with the perspective most CEOs never get.
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- 6 days ago31 min
030 Is This Mission Drift? | FCA President & CEO Shane Williamson
The Fellowship of Christian Athletes had worked the same way with high school and college athletes since 1954. Then someone asked a question in a leadership meeting that nobody could answer well, and it started a decade of change. Shane Williamson became the CEO in 2017. The reset came down to three words: engage, equip, empower. I was surprised that the vision and the mission then changed to match, not the other way around. And it was a radical expansion of their work to new age ...
- 1 weeks ago41 min
029 What Am I Even Doing Here? | Prison Fellowship President & CEO Heather Rice-Minus
Heather Rice-Minus walked out of a board meeting without an important approval. She had presented a new mission and vision for Prison Fellowship, built over a year of listening in prisons and long work with her leadership team. The lawyers wordsmithed. Her board chair asked whether people would understand it. The words went back on the shelf. She went home and sat with her husband, wondering what she had signed up for. Four months later, at her first board meeting as CEO, she put the...
- 2 weeks ago37 min
028 Teach Me to Care and Not to Care | Biola University President Barry Corey
Barry Corey is starting his twentieth year as president of Biola University. He says he is on his third presidency at the same institution. Early on, he hired a senior leader he liked and respected. Years later the university had moved and the role had moved with it. Barry agonized for weeks over a decision he already knew was inevitable, and when he walked in to deliver it, the office started to spin and he nearly passed out. That decision, and what it cost to make, sits at the center ...
- 3 weeks ago36 min
027 Weather the Storm? Or Walk Away? | Growing Hope Globally President and CEO Kaitlyn Slate
Kaitlyn Slate stepped into her first CEO role knowing she was very different from her predecessor. The board wanted her to diversify revenue. The staff wanted her to understand who they were. And the farmers who had anchored the organization's model for 26 years were in the most difficult agricultural economy in recent memory. Kaitlyn had to decide whether to chase a quick win or stay true to a model that was severely strained. This conversation covers how she worked through the t...
- Aug 18, 202632 min
Do We Pull the Plug on a 50-Year Program? | Jews for Jesus CEO Aaron Abramson
Jews for Jesus had been sending staff to present to churches for 50 years, more than 1000/year. Pastors invited them in. Churches put them on the schedule. People started to give. Then the invitations started declining, and the costs kept rising. Aaron Abramson stepped into the CEO role and knew a reckoning was coming. He had been in the organization for 25 years, including a stretch as COO. The question was not whether to act, but when and how much. In his second year, he pulled ...
- Aug 11, 202631 min
025 He Got a $60 Million Gift. Then He Left | Freedom Fund CEO Nick Grono
He got the largest gift in his organization's history. Then he left anyway. Nick Grono had been employee number one at the Freedom Fund since 2014, the only leader the anti-slavery organization had ever known, and he had already decided to step down at the end of the year. Then, in late 2025, an unexpected $60 million arrived from MacKenzie Scott, roughly three times the organization's annual budget. Everything that made leaving hard suddenly got harder. This conversation covers what made him...
- Aug 4, 202635 min
024 Treating Complaints as Gifts | World Renew Executive Director Carol Bremer-Bennett
Carol Bremer-Bennett sensed there were meetings before the meeting and meetings after the meeting. The initiatives she was pushing kept stalling, and she couldn't get people to say what they really thought. So about halfway through her tenure, she brought in a culture coach and ran the Lencioni five dysfunctions assessment. Trust came back yellow. Every other layer of the pyramid came back red. Not one green. (That's bad.) It took her breath away. But Carol decided to be thankful for...
- Jul 28, 202646 min
023 Did I Just Completely Mess That Up? | Abara Executive Director Sami DiPasquale
Sami DiPasquale put three border properties under contract in the same week. Abara had received its 501c3 status the month before. He had no money, but he moved anyway. Abara is a nonprofit in El Paso that works on both sides of the US-Mexico border, in El Paso and Ciudad Juarez, creating spaces for connection, belonging, and peace across deep divides. The three properties sat right against the border fence, on a piece of land Sami calls one of the most historically significant in the A...
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Nonprofit CEOs carry decisions they can't fully discuss with their board, their team, or their peers. So they carry them alone. Each week, Adam Jeske, The Nonprofit CEO Advisor, sits down with a nonprofit CEO to go inside the decisions they carry: the agonizing restructure, the wonky board dynamic, the moment that defined their tenure. Adam has been in over 230 of these conversations. The patterns are striking and valuable. This podcast surfaces them so you can lead with the perspective most CEOs never get.
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