The Nonprofit CEO Podcast
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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The Nonprofit CEO Podcast
Latest Episodes
015 The Path of Humiliation | Harrison Center for the Arts Exec. Director Joanna Taft
Joanna Taft proposed starting a charter high school out of the arts nonprofit she was leading. She had no background in education. Her artists were leaving Indianapolis because nobody was buying their work, and she decided the fix ...
014 The Decision After the Decision | World Relief President & CEO Myal Greene
Myal Greene inherited an organization with a mission statement that everyone loved. World Relief had run on that mission statement for fifteen years. Internal staff admired it. External donors knew it. Myal knew it needed to change anyway.<...
013 Please Don't Let Me Break This! | Christianity Today President & CEO Nicole Martin
Nicole Martin is five and a half months into leading Christianity Today. The prayer she keeps coming back to: "God, please don't let me break this!"She began leading a 70-year-old organization founded by Billy Graham, and found it trying...
012 Deciding Before You Know | Wheaton College President Philip Ryken
Phil Ryken had believed for years that Wheaton College's signature orientation program should be required for every new student. The research was there, and he saw what it could mean for Wheaton. But that meant scaling a high-connec...
011 Prophetic or Pragmatic? | Bread for the World President & CEO Eugene Cho
Eugene Cho started at Bread for the World two days before the COVID lockdown. In his first week, a tweet of his went viral, landing in the Washington Post. He had to figure out how to lead and how to speak, in real time. And this is while stepp...
