Daring To Lead with Tim Wolfred

Guest presenter Tim Wolfred of CompassPoint Nonprofit Services and co-author of the recent report Daring to Lead 2006 (download a PDF of the report) discusses current national trends in nonprofit executive turnover, compensation, career planning, and retirement. He also explores leading causes of executive burnout—in particular, widespread frustration with boards and funders, and what you and your peers can do to create more resilience in your organization.

Tim Wolfred, Psy.D., is a Senior Projects Director at CompassPoint Nonprofit Services. Tim inaugurated in 1998 CompassPoint's Executive Transitions program, which has now worked with over 300 nonprofit agencies. He is the author of "Interim Executive Directors: The Power in the Middle," which is one in a series of monographs on best practices for executive transitions published by the Annie E. Casey Foundation. He is also co-author of two seminal studies of executive director tenure and experience, "Leadership Lost" (1999) and "Daring to Lead" (2001), which were published by CompassPoint.