Getting Fired-Up to Retire

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Making the Decision and Moving On 

After decades of building and shaping the nonprofit landscape, the children of the sixties are reaching age 65 at a rate of 10,000 per day. If you are a Boomer and an executive director, you are facing your own timeline, and that timeline is a critical one for your organization. The leadership transition is likely the most challenging and exciting opportunity faced by any nonprofit organization and the transition in your own life is one of the biggest we all face. 

This workshop is about personal preparedness and action for your move out of the executive director job into full or partial retirement. “Succession planning” is a policy issue, but how does an exec make the decision to depart and participate in the next steps in a way that (a) smooths his or her life path, and (b) helps ensure a successful handoff to a new leader? 

Highlights include: 

• The inside decision – real considerations and the emotions of excitement and anxiety 
• Judging and adjusting “readiness” – your own, your board’s, and that of the organization 
• Timeline management – counting down the years until there are just months left (or counting months down to weeks) 
• The first-next steps 
• Your role in succession selection (and other ways to help get it right) 

About the presenter: After 33 years as a nonprofit CEO, Bruce Scott made a planned departure in 2014 to create Bruce A. Scott Leadership Coaching (www.spacetofocus.biz) Besides in his own career, he has participated in executive director transitions as an executive coach, a search consultant, and as a member of boards. 

Category: Executive Directors & CEOs
Expertise: Advanced
Format: Recorded webinar
Published: 2016
Length: 1 hour