Executive Search

By James Bone

Change is threatening to most organizations but the challenge of changing executive leadership for nonprofits, universities, and colleges may be one of its most critical functions to get right. By the same token finding highly qualified leaders who are willing to dedicated themselves to nonprofit institutions has become increasingly competitive. That is why I have written Executive Search.

Executive Search is the most innovative approach available for conducting a college, university or nonprofit leadership search without the expense of consulting firms while ensuring you choose the right candidate to lead your organization to new levels of success.

This book will help you avoid mistakes and ensure a collaborative and inclusive process for selecting the best executive for your unique organizational needs. I hope that you have the same life changing experience in finding your next leader.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Jun 30, 2015
• ISBN: 9781329298408

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Executive Search

Executive Search

Copyright © 2015 by James Bone

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First Printing: 2015

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Introduction

Each year, colleges, universities and nonprofits will begin the process of conducting a search for new leadership.  Each search is unique to the institution and requires a great deal of planning, coordination and expense. Higher education faces steeper challenges in the form of increased competition for education dollars, spirally costs of education, low-cost technology alternatives and increased demands by business to deliver a better educated student.  Selecting the right leader is mission critical.

This book is about conducting a successful and efficient search for the best candidate to fulfill your organization’s mission.  Why, you may ask, did I decide to focus on writing about how to conduct a presidential search for a university or nonprofit organization?  The answer is quite simple, I have found a better way!

The process of conducting a presidential search can be expensive, time consuming and complicated by cultural and political influences that can wreak havoc on the most well-intended search committee.   This book will break down the presidential search to ensure that the committee completes its task on time, with minimal budget expense and deliver the most inclusive process imaginable.

For-profit organizations typically develop succession plans and a period of time for grooming one or more candidates for transition into the executive office. More likely than not nonprofits and especially universities frequently do not have formal succession plans in place to facilitate a smooth transition.  University presidents typically serve until retirement unless some unplanned event necessitates a change in leadership.  The planning and long lead time involved in a search for and on-boarding of a new president can be a lengthy process assuming all goes well.  Whether your university or nonprofit has a formal succession plan in place or not the process laid out in this book will guide you through a successful campaign with minimal expense.

Let me explain how I developed a better approach to conducting a presidential search.  In 2010, as a member of a board of trustees for a small, private liberal arts college in the Mid-West, I was