Leaving Well: nonprofit leadership guidance for workplace exits and transitions

Mar 02 2025 75 ep. 28 mins 6

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This is Leaving Well, where we talk about the reality that People Leave™️ in nonprofits and the social impact sector. Through this podcast, you will receive expert insights on leadership exits and transitions, the benefits of interim leadership, and sustainable succession planning in nonprofits. Listen to learn transition strategies for executive director, CEO, and board of directors leadership during resignations, terminations, and unfortunate circumstances such as death.

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74: Melanie Jones on the Importance of Having a Chief of Staff

Mar 02 2025 24 mins

Melanie is a 3x former Chief of Staff passionate about the profession, spreading awareness on how impactful it is, and helping others get into this career path. She’s also a mom who loves watching her son grow (a 6’4 high school freshman - lots of growing going on). Her favorite way to spend an afternoon is reading a good book, when she has the time to do so. Main quote: We'

73: Lisa Marshall on Workplace Management and Leaving Well

Feb 23 2025 23 mins

Lisa Marshall is founder and principal of Good Work Consulting, where she helps for-purpose professionals get to the strategic part of their to-do list. She knows how it feels to be stuck fielding an endless list of to-dos that are urgent and important, but don’t necessarily build capacity. And what it’s like to daydream about the projects that would make things better (if the

72: Minda Harts on Trust in the Workplace and Workplace Transitions

Feb 16 2025 21 mins

Minda Harts is a celebrated author and influential speaker, best known for her bestsellers "The Memo," "Right Within," and the YA book "You Are More Than Magic." She is a respected voice in advancing women of color, self-advocacy, and restoring trust at work. Minda frequently speaks at major conferences and companies, including Nike, Google, Disney, Best Buy, Dreamforce, and the As

71: An Interim Executive Director case study with Dress for Success Tampa Bay

Feb 09 2025 33 mins

Laurell Jones served with distinction in the United States Air Force and retired in the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. During her 23 year career she held multiple roles in financial management and financial analysis with increasing levels of leadership responsibility in international and US based locations. In Laurell’s post military career she was a Senior Managing Consultant with

70: Dr. Jaiya John on Leaving Well and Storytelling as a Garden During Transitions

Feb 02 2025 56 mins

Dr. Jaiya John was orphan-born on ancient Indigenous Anasazi and Pueblo lands in the high desert of New Mexico, and is an internationally recognized freedom worker, poet, author, teacher, and speaker. Jaiya is the founder of Soul Water Rising, a global rehumanizing mission to eradicate oppression. The mission has donated thousands of Jaiya’s books in support of social healing, an

69: Stephen Newland on the Intersection of Finance and Nonprofit Work

Jan 26 2025 25 mins

Over the past 15 years, Stephen Newland has worked in finance roles at a variety of organizations including nonprofits, startups, early-stage companies, and Fortune 500. Stephen believes in making finance simple & actionable! When he’s not heads down in a spreadsheet, he loves to spend time with his wife and daughter at a local coffee shop or watching his favorite Cincinnati spor

68: Amanda Misiko Andere on Knowing When it’s Time to Leave and Leaving Well

Jan 19 2025 36 mins

Amanda Misiko Andere leads with love and disruption. She has spent over twenty years working in the nonprofit and public sector as a leader committed to racial and housing justice through advocacy for systemic change. Prior to joining Funders Together to End Homelessness as their CEO, she served as the CEO of Wider Opportunities for Women, a national advocacy organization. Currentl

67: Lacey Kempinski on the Importance of Planning for Leave

Jan 12 2025 28 mins

Lacey Kempinski is a former in-house fundraiser, turned Mom, turned consultant. After more than a decade of in-house fundraising, Motherhood changed the trajectory of Lacey’s career. In 2018, when she was due back to work after her second parental leave, Lacey took a leap and founded Balanced Good. She’s on a mission to better support parents and organizations in the non-profi

66: Camille Acey on Conscious Nonprofit Endings and Closures

Jan 05 2025 31 mins

Camille E. Acey is a mom, a community organizer, a former tech support leader, and founder of the conscious nonprofit closures consultancy The Wind Down. As part of this work, she currently facilitates the Practices of Composting and Hospicing community under the Joseph Rowntree Foundation’s Emerging Futures initiative. She was a co-founder of the Collective for Liberation, Ecolo

65: Kamilah Martin on Independent Consulting and Workplace Transitions

Dec 29 2024 32 mins

Kamilah specializes in interim solutions, serving as a successful interim executive to nonprofit organizations with budgets of $10+ million. She is a nonprofit executive consultant with two decades of experience in the areas of organizational and relationship effectiveness; change management; interim leadership solutions; and program design/project management, both domestically and