Nonprofit Executive Searches with Carlyn Madden
Episode description
In episode 27 of Nonprofit Mission: Impact, some of the topics that Carol and her guest, Carlyn Madden discussed include:
- Why small nonprofits can consider working with an executive search firm
- How to make your search for a new organizational leader as equitable as possible
- What aspiring future leaders need to do now to prepare for future executive leadership roles
Guest Information:
Carlyn Madden helps nonprofits find new leaders. She is the CEO of Good Insight, a national executive search firm and governance consultancy that focuses on small nonprofits. Good Insight is committed to becoming an anti-racist search firm and she is a sought-after speaker and adviser on the nonprofit workforce’s generational and demographic shifts. She comes to this work through philanthropy, beginning her career at The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, where she managed a portfolio of grants that spanned education, the arts, human services, and the environment.
Important Guest Links:
- https://good-insight.org/
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/carlynmadden/
- https://twitter.com/carlynmadden
- Will We Get There Hire by Hire? By Jeanne Bell, Paola Cubias, and Byron Johnson https://www.compasspoint.org/sites/default/files/documents/Hire_by_Hire_Report.pdf
- https://www.compasspoint.org/sites/default/files/documents/Executive_Transition.pdf
- Articles about the glass cliff
- https://hbr.org/2011/01/how-women-end-up-on-the-glass-cliff
- https://www.vox.com/2018/10/31/17960156/what-is-the-glass-cliff-women-ceos
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