How to Create Better Nonprofit Executive Teams

By Libbie Landles-Cobb, Henry Barmeier & Kirk Kramer 1

Only 19 percent of nonprofit executive team members strongly agree that their teams focus on the right work. To improve the performance of these vital groups, leaders should ask five critical questions.

Leadership Development: Aligning Funders’ Good Intentions with Nonprofits’ Real Needs

By Libbie Landles-Cobb, Kirk Kramer, & Betsy Haley Doyle

The time is right for funders to reconsider how they can make the most of the dollars they invest in grantee leadership development, but they must start by better understanding the leadership challenges nonprofits face.

The Nonprofit Leadership Development Deficit

By Libbie Landles-Cobb, Kirk Kramer & Katie Smith Milway 35

Succession planning is the No. 1 organizational concern of US nonprofits, but they are failing to develop their most promising pool of talent: homegrown leaders.

Boosting Nonprofit Board Performance Where It Counts

By Lisa Walsh, Libbie Landles-Cobb, & Leah Karlins 9

Five recommendations for onboarding a new executive director.