Excellence in Jewish Leadership
The challenges facing the future of Jewish leadership are well-chronicled — from identifying talent, to training and retaining leaders, to ensuring that Jewish organizations are utilizing leaders to their full abilities. … READ MORE
New York, NY – Leading Edge, the Alliance for Excellence in Jewish Leadership, announced today that Mordy Walfish has been named Deputy Director, effective July 31, 2017. In this newly-created role, Mordy will oversee all Leading Edge program strategy and implementation, working closely with the Executive Director and the Board of Directors to translate strategic priorities into action. … READ MORE
March 15, 2017, New York, NY—Leading Edge released a report today that highlights key areas of opportunity that will enable the Jewish community to attract and retain top talent. The report, Call to Action: How Lay Leaders Can Overcome the Jewish Community’s Leadership Pipeline Challenge, outlines a number of practical steps lay leaders can take to promote progress in building stronger leadership pipelines … READ MORE
Within the next five to seven years, 75 to 90 percent of Jewish nonprofit organizations will be faced with the daunting challenge of replacing their retiring CEOs and senior leaders. The key to filling these spots with highly qualified individuals is a strong pipeline that leads to the top. … READ MORE
Over the next five to seven years an estimated 75%-90% of Jewish nonprofits will have to find a new executive director. … READ MORE
How do we hire and fire? What constitutes leadership? And what’s the difference between leadership and management? What are the values of Jewish institutions? And how should their executives display them? … READ MORE
For the first few weeks at his new job at a Jewish nonprofit, Aaron had to ring a doorbell to get into the building. No one told him there was an access code for employees. … READ MORE
The first-ever national CEO Onboarding Program designed for executive level organizational leaders in the American Jewish community today announced its first cohort of participants, representing a wide range of geographic, background experience, and organizational mission diversity within the community. … READ MORE
I recently got a call from a friend who graduated from a top business school and was considering three great job offers: … READ MORE
“A sweeping generational change is surging through the top tiers of the Jewish communal world,” writes Forward journalist Nathan Guttman, in an article detailing the increasingly difficult challenge of filling the ranks of retiring leaders. … READ MORE