Many nonprofits are learning that they can cut their overhead, retain talented staff, and become more productive by establishing remote or flexible work arrangements with some or all of their employees. As a firm that has successfully done this for seven years, we've learned a thing or two about best practices in this new economy model of working.

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:

Katherine Jacobs leads worldwide efforts to strengthen the capacity of the Nonprofit Professionals Advisory Group’s nonprofit, higher education, and public sector clients and manages the strategic development of the firm’s virtual workforce. With deep national and international experience as a psychologist, teacher, researcher, and search consultant, Katherine guides organizations through transformational leadership changes and facilitates professional and craft development. Katherine's executive search experience spans the mission-driven sector from presidential searches for Ivy League universities and international advocacy organizations to mid-level and executive positions in small, grassroots organizations in their start-up phases. Katherine formerly served as Senior Associate for Isaacson, Miller. A Fulbright scholar and recipient of the Herbert L. Zimmer Award for excellence in psychological research, Katherine received her BA in Psychology from the University of Rochester while training at the Eastman School of Music as a classical cellist. She received her Ph.D. in Psychology from Georgetown University. Katherine’s doctoral research focused on the psychological foundations of policy for managing cultural diversity and, in her consulting work, Katherine has brought her research to bear on the challenges of diversifying executive leadership.

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.