Exploring New Connections in Leadership and

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Exploring New Connections in Leadership and Organizational Transition: A Case Study Webinar for Board and Staff Leaders Karen Schuler, Raffa P.C. Jeanne Bell, CompassPoint Join the conversation; share what you’ve learned! Use our hashtag #smarttransition Introducing our Team Jeanne Bell, CompassPoint Karen Schuler, Raffa PC Our Case Study presenters: The Children’s Inn at NIH – Jennie Lucca, CEO, Diane Baker Board Member Management Assistance Group (MAG) – Susan Misra, Co-Director 2 Exploring new and evolving connections around transition. 3 Proactively refining organizational strategy and business model to respond to stakeholder needs and the operating context. Adapting organizational culture and systems in concert. Preparing for 10% executive turnover across the sector annually. Recruiting and developing leaders through ongoing succession planning. Challenging our organizations on who leads and with what leadership beliefs and practices. What do we mean by ETM and “Allied Services?” High Mission Impact Succession Planning Executive Search and Transition Sustainability Planning 4 Leadership & Organizational Transitions: 4 Key Terms Executive transition and search – three-phase support for change from one executive to another with attendant organizational changes Succession planning- ongoing attention to leader continuity and development through attention to planned and unplanned leader changes and the culture and ethos of leadership in the organization, including attention to diversity and inclusion practices Sustainability planning – ongoing attention to the long-term mission capacity of the organization and changes in leadership, strategy and business model, culture and resources Strategic planning – annual and periodic reviews of connection between mission, desired results and strategies for achieving results 5 Leadership Ethos Shared leadership- a leadership style that broadly distributes leadership responsibility…frequently contrasted with more traditional "vertical" or hierarchical" leadership that resides predominantly with an individual instead of a group. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shared_leadership Diversity- the demographic mix of a specific collection of people, taking into account elements of human difference, but focusing particularly on: racial and ethnic groups, LGBT populations, people with disabilities, and women. http://www.d5coalition.org/tools/dei/ Equity – improving equity is to promote justice, impartiality and fairness within the procedures, processes, and distribution of resources by institutions or systems. http://www.d5coalition.org/tools/dei/ DEFINING ‘ETHOS:’ “the fundamental character or spirit of a culture; the underlying sentiment that informs the beliefs, customs, or practices of a group or society; dominant assumptions of a people or period” 6 “This shift—from competition to collaboration, from single issues to intersectionality, from scarcity to collective abundance—requires something different from us as actors for justice …”