From Enterprise Risk Management to Shared Leadership

Author: Jennifer Chandler
Publisher: Nonprofit Quarterly
Resource Type: Article
Principle: Build Capacity/ Reimagine Leadership

The robust sustainability lens offered by “Leadership New England: Essential Shifts for a Thriving Nonprofit Sector,” a new Third Sector New England (TSNE) report, makes a compelling case for future-thinking leadership and calls for an end to the more static notion of succession planning as a “plan.” With sustainability as the focus, nonprofit staff and boards can and should consider a whole range of circumstances related to transitions of leadership that create risks to the mission.