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
029 What Am I Even Doing Here? | Prison Fellowship President & CEO Heather Rice-Minus
Heather Rice-Minus walked out of a board meeting without an important approval. She had presented a new mission and vision for Prison Fellowship, built over a year of listening in prisons and long work with her leadership team. The...
028 Teach Me to Care and Not to Care | Biola University President Barry Corey
Barry Corey is starting his twentieth year as president of Biola University. He says he is on his third presidency at the same institution.Early on, he hired a senior leader he liked and respected. Years later the university had moved an...
027 Weather the Storm? Or Walk Away? | Growing Hope Globally President and CEO Kaitlyn Slate
Kaitlyn Slate stepped into her first CEO role knowing she was very different from her predecessor. The board wanted her to diversify revenue. The staff wanted her to understand who they were. And the farmers who had anchored the org...
026 Do We Pull the Plug on a 50-Year Program? | Jews for Jesus CEO Aaron Abramson
Jews for Jesus had been sending staff to present to churches for 50 years, more than 1000/year. Pastors invited them in. Churches put them on the schedule. People started to give. Then the invitations started declining, and the cost...
025 He Got a $60 Million Gift. Then He Left | Freedom Fund CEO Nick Grono
He got the largest gift in his organization's history. Then he left anyway.Nick Grono had been employee number one at the Freedom Fund since 2014, the only leader the anti-slavery organization had ever known, and he had already decided t...
