Nonprofit Succession Planning: 4 Scenarios to Prepare For with Greg Petersen

Is your nonprofit prepared for an unexpected leadership transition?

Nonprofit succession planning involves more than replacing a CEO or Executive Director. Organizations also need to consider how changes in board leadership, key staff roles, and unexpected emergencies could affect their operations and mission.

In this video, Greg Petersen shares four essential nonprofit succession planning scenarios:

  1. Executive succession

  2. Board succession

  3. Key role succession

  4. Emergency succession

Rather than trying to address every scenario at once, Greg encourages nonprofit leaders to begin by identifying where their organization faces the greatest risk, and asks, “who, if they left tomorrow, would cause the most operational disruption?”

To learn more, read our blog post, Nonprofit Succession Planning: Four Scenarios Every Organization Should Prepare For →

 

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