About the Executive Transitions Program

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Searching for a new executive director or CEO for your nonprofit?

Need an interim executive director between hires or while your director is on leave?

Looking for advice while the organization prepares for a major leadership change?

The Executive Transitions Program (ETP) of Third Sector New England helps your nonprofit prosper as it faces one of its most crucial challenges: a change in executive leadership.

Beginning in the next few years, the region’s CEOs and executive directors are expected to leave their positions in unprecedented numbers – many through retirement.

A change in leadership can be an opportunity to grow and prosper. Or it can be disruptive and damaging if not managed thoughtfully.

Providing a Range of Comprehensive Executive Transition
and Search Services

Third Sector New England established its Executive Transitions Program in 2004 to provide a range of sensitive and comprehensive executive transition and search services to non-profit organizations throughout Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island.

We offer your nonprofit:

  • one-on-one counseling
  • evaluation
  • facilitation
  • executive search
  • interim executive director placement
  • planning

The program guides organizations before, during and after changes in their executive leadership.

Today, Third Sector New England’s Executive Transitions Program sends more than two dozen transition consultants and interim executive directors across the three-state region to work hand-in-hand with non-profit agencies of all sizes and missions.

How We Work

Learn more about our philosophy, how we operate and expected costs and time.

Who We Are

Heather Harker and Hez Norton are the first people you’re likely to meet. They have the day-to-day responsibility for ETP.