The CEO’s working life is different from that of other employees. Through the Employee Experience Survey, we have learned so much about employees’ experience at work and what it takes to improve it. In order to build on that knowledge, we believed it was time to create a similar survey dedicated to the unique experiences of CEOs in our sector. 

The goals of the CEO Survey are:

• To identify the correlation between relationships, culture and impact of the organization with CEO engagement.
• To gather data on the CEO experience in the Jewish nonprofit sector and to extrapolate what are the most important factors that lead to engaged CEOs.
• To understand the profile of the CEO in the Jewish nonprofit sector.
• To identify the primary positions and sectors that respondents were in prior to their current CEO role.

CEOs at organizations that are registered to take the Employee Experience Survey are eligible to take the CEO Survey. Once your organization is registered, the CEO, Executive Director, or most-senior leader at your organization will automatically be invited to participate. No other registration is required.

Leading Edge guarantees the confidentiality of all senior leaders. We are committed to ensuring no individual CEO’s data is ever made public. Any data that is shared will only be in the aggregate and will adhere to strict confidentiality thresholds.

Leading Edge will protect this information through a set of safeguards and security protocols, and results will be reported as a group.

Yes, they are different. To better serve our sector’s CEOs and senior leaders, we created the CEO Survey to ask senior leaders questions specific to management, strategy, fundraising, and board relationships. The Employee Experience Survey will be administered to all of your organization’s employees. The CEO Survey will only be administered to CEOs. 

Both surveys will be administered on the same timeline, from May 6 to May 23, 2025.

All CEOs will receive and should respond to the CEO Survey. 

CEOs of organizations with less than 10 employees will receive both surveys.. In order to ensure the aggregate employee data has enough responses to be reported, the CEO can opt into taking the Employee Experience Survey along with the CEO Survey.

Yes, in cases where there are co-CEOs, or if your synagogue has a CEO or Executive Director and a Head Rabbi.

Leading Edge publishes aggregate data around CEO experiences in reports like this one. Individualized information about any individual leader will not be published.

Registration for the CEO Survey is an automatic part of an organization’s registration for the Employee Experience Survey. If you are the top most professional leader of a Jewish nonprofit whose organization is registered to participate in this year’s Employee Experience Survey, then you will receive a link by email to participate in the CEO Survey. No further registration is required.