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by Adam Jeske
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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- 5 days ago43 min
037 Is Good Enough Good Enough? | Habitat for Humanity CEO Jonathan Reckford
When Jonathan Reckford became CEO of Habitat for Humanity in 2005, Habitat had more than 2,500 entities, no common logo, no legal agreements with its affiliates, and no standards. It was helping about 125,000 people a year. And Habitat was losing ground. "The gap between what it costs to create a unit of housing and what people can afford today is the worst it's ever been," he says. "So we are not winning." The decision was to change the question Habitat asked itself, from how many houses can...
- 1 weeks ago28 min
036 Can I Decide Without All the Facts? | National Council on Aging President & CEO Ramsey Alwin
In 2023, Ramsey Alwin had to decide when to bring the network of organizations on aging issues back together in person. The National Council on Aging's annual Age+ Action Conference had drawn more than 1,200 people at its peak, and it had gone virtual during the pandemic. The field wanted to come back. Aging network professionals had lost clients, colleagues, and family members, and they wanted to grieve together. They also work closely with older adults, many with multiple chronic conditions...
- 2 weeks ago49 min
035 What Do I Keep? What Do I Change? | Church World Service President & CEO Rick Santos
When Rick Santos became CEO of Church World Service, it was a homecoming. He had spent his first 13 years in international development there, left for more than a decade, and returned to succeed the leader he had once worked for. That leader had led the organization for 27 years. Some of the furniture was the same. So were some of the systems, and so was the CFO. The organization “had been functioning really well for about 20 years, but it hadn’t really changed much in those 20 years,” ...
- 3 weeks ago42 min
034 Am I Even Supposed to Be the CEO? | YouVersion Founder & CEO Bobby Gruenewald
In 2021, YouVersion’s Bible App passed half a billion devices. The team celebrated. Bobby Gruenewald knew growth was barely above flat, and the milestone “felt very hollow.” He decided that if he wasn’t going to steward it well, someone else should. He started looking for a CEO who had led at that scale. When he asked one of his closest advisors who it should be, the advisor said, “Well, it needs to be you.” Bobby pushed back: “We need a real CEO.” But two other people he trusted ...
- Oct 6, 202634 min
033 Can I Tell the Board I'm Drowning? | Community Food Club Executive Director AJ Fossel
In six months, the Community Food Club grew by 47 percent. AJ Fossel had six people on staff. She was stocking onions in the back because there was nobody else. A trusted teammate told her she was going to leave. AJ sat in her office after hours and cried. She knew she needed to hire. She also knew that meant dipping into reserves, having a hard conversation with the board, and asking for help in a way that felt like admitting she didn't have all the answers. She took her board chair — who ca...
- Sep 29, 202644 min
032 RIF or Resign? | Thompson Child and Family Focus President & CEO Will Jones
Three days into his tenure, Will Jones was asked to sign a letter moving $150,000 from Thompson's endowment to cover a $200,000 payroll. Two weeks later, the same letter was back on his desk. Thompson was spending about $5 million a year more than it brought in, and its leaders were telling staff the model could not work any other way. Will concluded the organization had more people than work. On a three-day beach trip with his family, he told his wife, "I know what I need t...
- Sep 22, 202641 min
031 Am I Supposed to Decide This? | M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust CEO Romanita Hairston
The hard calls, the ones that are 51/49, are supposed to land on the CEO's desk. Romanita Hairston warns that without a clear escalation framework, you'll be doing the wrong work. "You can be making 51/49 decisions, but not the most consequential ones," she says. One of her first moves after becoming CEO of the M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust in 2022 was a strategy decision. The Trust affirmed its identity as a capacity-building institution and cut the sectors it served in half, fro...
- Sep 15, 202631 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 ...
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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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