For Season 1, Episode 8 of the Nonprofit Thoughts Podcast we are joined by Jill McDonald, the Executive Director of the Domestic Violence Crisis Center and Dawn Pulumbo, Vice President of Insurance at Zarr Financial Services and board member extraordinaire.

I am convinced we have a leadership problem in our sector, and part of that problem is caused by the fact that we have nonprofit employees, specifically female employees, who do not envision themselves becoming executive level leaders. To this point, over 73% of nonprofit employees are women, but over 65% of nonprofit leaders are men.

For the season 1 finale of the podcast, we dive into how we can begin to reimagine nonprofit leadership. Jill and Dawn share their leadership stories and discuss how gender expectations and gender roles have shaped their careers.

We also explore how we can address this problem as employees, as parents, and as community leaders. We talk about how developing leaders can learn to take care of themselves, to develop their support network, and learn to gain the skills to become leaders.

My hope is this podcast will help empower some of the smart, intelligent, passionate and talented female employuees in the nonprofit sector to begin to envision a world in which they become Executive Directors. This is my hope, because when the right people don't step up, executive level jobs are filled by people of either gender who are not qualified, and that is hurting the nonprofit sector!

 

Mentioned in This Episode

• Domestic Violence Crisis Center
• Zarr Financial Services
• Independence, Inc.
• Do Good Better Consulting