Join us for a lively presentation about what happens inside of the mystery search firm, and learn how we attract candidates, build deep and diverse pools, vet candidates, and make the final matches. This webinar will review both the nuts-and-bolts of search, but also dig into the “craft” as well.

Part of the Wednesday Webinar series for nonprofit staff and board development. Offering strategy, planning, organizational development, branding, marketing, executive search, finance, fundraising, operations, and more.

Presenters:

Laura Gassner Otting founded the Nonprofit Professionals Advisory Group in 2002. Prior to forming the group, she served as the senior vice president of ExecSearches.com, the web's leading site for mid- to senior-level nonprofit job postings and search services. Laura served as vice president at Isaacson, Miller, one of the largest search firms in New England, and one of the most highly respected non-profit executive search firms in the country. Previously, Laura served as a presidential appointee for the White House Office of National Service, a program officer for the Corporation for National Service and as a member of the Clinton/Gore Transition Team and 1992 Election Team. She holds a Master of Arts in Political Management from the George Washington University and a Bachelor of Arts in Government from the University of Texas at Austin. Laura sits on the boards of Camp Starfish and Newton Montessori School, and is the immediate past chair of Strong Women, Strong Girls; she has served as a member of the Alumni Board of the Graduate School of Political Management at the George Washington University and as the founding board chair of the Boston Choral Ensemble. Laura is the author of Change Your Career: Transitioning to the Nonprofit Sector.

Before joining the Nonprofit Professionals Advisory Group, Tracy Welsh served as a Managing Associate at Isaacson, Miller, where she focused on cabinet and director level positions in private philanthropy and external relations across higher education, healthcare, human services, and advocacy organizations. Prior to serving the non-profit community, Tracy managed C-level and vice presidential-level searches for one of the nation’s fastest growing executive search firms serving the high-technology and professional services sectors. Tracy’s client-centric approach was cultivated early in her career through public relations and marketing communications roles in the technology arena. Tracy holds a Bachelor of Arts in English from Boston College.

As Vice President for Strategy, Erin DeCurtis leads the Nonprofit Professionals Advisory Group’s client service development efforts, along with helping to build the firm’s internal strategic infrastructure. In executive search projects she works with clients to develop their recruitment and organizational development strategy. Erin leads efforts to develop the firm’s Training Services offerings, including in-person courses and webinars focused on executive search, virtual organization management and strategic organizational development. Erin joined NPAG in 2008 after completing her MBA at Simmons School of Management, the first business school designed to educate women for principled leadership. There she created the school’s first Nonprofit Management Club and served as a research assistant focused on the growth of social ventures. Prior to earning her MBA, Erin served as a Senior Associate for Isaacson, Miller. In this position, she played a critical role in growing the firm’s national K-12 education search practice, in addition to serving as a lead search consultant to a wide range of higher education, advocacy and economic development organizations. Erin earned a BA in Political Science and Spanish from the University of New Hampshire.