Third Sector Company

NONPROFIT SUCCESSION PLANNING AND THE DEI DEBATE: The Consultant's Role in Tough Conversations About Equity

A Think Tank roundtable open to all aspiring and experienced succession planning consultants to inspire, network, and advance Succession Planning practice with panel presenters.

Succession Planning consultants strive to create meaningful connections between diverse people and opinions about the future leadership of a nonprofit organization. A practical succession plan represents the consensus of many people that agree there must be equitable policies, pathways and pipelines that lead to retaining and advancing talent. Nonprofit organizations, associations and congregations are uniquely positioned, through their succession planning discussions, to lead efforts exploring the richness of diversity that exist in communities and remove barriers that have stood in the way for all people to excel.

During our Succession Planning BootCamp Study Group, participants will be challenged to wrestle with the following questions in community with their peers:

· What is the relationship between succession planning consultation and advancing diversity, equity, inclusion and belongingness in a nonprofit organization?

· What challenges and opportunities do the current political environment regarding DEI have on succession planning consultations with nonprofit organizations? Given this context, how do you see advancing diversity, equity, inclusion and belongingness with succession planning in a nonprofit organization?

· What do you need to be prepared to be successful in your succession planning work given this context?  

· Are succession planning consultants intending to do anything differently regarding their client engagement, service delivery and marketing practices starting in 2025?

We hope you’ll join us as members of the BootCamp faculty provide their perspective on these questions and facilitate discussion among the participants to examine DEI in the current climate and its impact on our work.

STUDY GROUP TUITION:

$65 for alumni of a Succession Planning BootCamp or other Third Sector Bootcamps and Academy's, and $95 for non-alumni. Contact Kelly Zelenka (kzelenka@thirdsectorcompany.com) to request the alumni discount code.

MINIMUM REGISTRATIONS:

In order to assure that all customers receive maximum benefit for their investments of time and money to participate in the Study Group, a minimum registration of 12 is required. If Third Sector Company is not able to guarantee at least 12 registrants for any Study Group program, customers will be notified 3 business days prior to the event and issued a refund.

Third Sector Company, Inc. is committed to advancing justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion as foundational to its programs.

We acknowledge and honor the fundamental value and dignity of all people; and we pledge our individual and organizational efforts to build respect, dignity, caring, and equitable treatment for all. As an organization, we are committed to transforming the world into one that promotes social justice and freedom from oppression, including but not limited to, racism, sexism, classism, heterosexism, ageism, and ableism.

Thus, we aim to be adaptable, actively anti-racist, embracing cultural differences, and to be accessible for people who are differently resourced and differently abled. Since we do not want financial hardship to be a barrier to participation, there are several seats reserved in each of our fee-based programs for confidentially awarded scholarships. We encourage those from historically underserved communities to apply.