Leadership coaching through organisational transition
You are navigating a major transition — a new role, a startup moving to scale, or an organisation in crisis — and the pace of change is outrunning your capacity to lead it.
What you'll achieve
The clarity, confidence, and strategic grounding to lead your organisation through change without losing yourself or your team in the process.
How a Nonprofit Builder consultant helps
- Provide structured coaching timed to the arc of the transition — helping you read the situation clearly, make sound decisions under pressure, and build the leadership behaviours the next phase requires.
Key deliverables
- Transition context assessment, agreed coaching goals and plan, regular coaching sessions, stakeholder feedback integration, mid-point review, end-of-engagement development summary.
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Free tools and guides to get started
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Building Leaderful Organizations
Volume 6 of the Annie E. Casey Foundation's Executive Transition Monograph Series, written for nonprofit executives and boards. It sets out 3 approaches to succession planning: strategic leader development, emergency succession planning and departure-defined succession planning. A section on the tough issues covers common sticking points, and a resource list closes the guide. Boards and executives use it as a framework to start succession planning and to spread leadership across staff.
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Coaching and Philanthropy: An Action Guide for Nonprofits
A guide for nonprofit leaders who are thinking about coaching. It draws on 3 years of data from the Coaching and Philanthropy Project, gathered from coached leaders, coaches, intermediaries and funders. Sections explain what coaching is, what it yields for leaders and organisations, common barriers and when to use it. A practical part covers readiness, finding and selecting a coach, running the engagement, paying for it and checking results. Case examples close the guide.
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