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
021 Am I Too Far Ahead? | The Gathering CEO Josh Kwan
Josh Kwan leads The Gathering, a national community of philanthropists and impact investors who span the full political and theological spectrum.His only real currency is trust, and every consequential decision he makes runs through one ...
020 Turning Down Money You Need | Flourish Fund Founder & CEO Dan Vogel
Dan Vogel spent months building a partnership with a large institutional funder. Flourish Fund was barely a year old, still in startup mode, without a stable base of funding. The money would have been meaningful, and the credibility would have ...
019 The Mud Floor Test | Mennonite Central Committee U.S. Exec. Dir. Ann Graber Hershberger
Ann Graber Hershberger spent nearly four decades connected to Mennonite Central Committee before she led it: first as a worker in Nicaragua and El Salvador, then through years of board service, alongside a 33-year career as a nursing professor....
018 Pulling the Plug on a $22 Million Program | Missio Nexus President and CEO Ted Esler
Ted Esler launched a partially self-funded health insurance program for the staff of Missio Nexus member organizations. It grew from zero to $22 million in about 18 months. Then COVID arrived. Claims went quiet while people stayed a...
017 Speaking Calmly While Holding a Powder Keg | Alliance to End Hunger President Eric Mitchell
A member publicly demanded to know where the Alliance to End Hunger stood on the Gaza conflict.Half of Eric Mitchell's coalition supported one side. Half supported the other. Silence was its own answer. He held off as long as...
