What’s Next Leadership Transition Cohort
Our next What’s Next cohort will launch in mid 2026. Fill out the interest form below to be the first to hear when applications open!
A leadership transition can be one of the most destabilizing changes for an organization. For long-time leaders, this time of change is also one which involves much personal introspection. Are you worried about how to prepare your organization and yourself for what’s next? Don’t go through this process alone. Let our community support your transition!
About the Program
What’s Next: Leading a Thriving Transition is TSNE’s cohort-based leadership transition program which helps to build the capacity of nonprofit leaders to prepare for succession and executive transition, and to ensure ongoing organizational sustainability.
TSNE offers the What’s Next cohort to support long-time leaders in preparing their organizations and themselves for a leadership transition. In this program, we will explore personal and organizational readiness, succession planning, and best practices of executive transition. Our experienced facilitators will lead you through creating action plans to best prepare for your transition and understand your legacy. In addition to the learning sessions, there are coaching opportunities for you, your staff, and your board for up to 18 months after your completion of the program.
Program Highlights
TSNE’s What’s Next cohort helps you:
- Assess your organization’s transition readiness
- Address organizational vulnerabilities related to a transition
- Learn best practices and tools to prepare for transition
- Lay the groundwork for organizational sustainability
- Motivate you to plan and implement the steps in transitioning
- Increase clarity on your personal steps to departure
- Focus on planning for the future after your departure
- Access support through a peer network of leaders facing similar transitions
- Build a sense of community with fellow nonprofit leaders
Meet the Program Alumni
“The program got me out of the mindset that my leaving would upset the apple cart. Once the agency is sustainable, once that is secured, I would have a much easier time because I am ready and my agency is ready.”
— Margie Martinez, Chief Executive Officer, Community Health Alliance of Pasadena
“This program helped me gain the confidence I needed to navigate my transition after nearly 17 years as a founding executive director. I also gained practical tools and tips to coach nine other long-term ED’s, all of whom have both successfully transitioned from their agencies, and consistently voiced strong appreciation for the benefits they, too, gained from the What’s Next program. I could not recommend it (or this fellowship) more highly.”
— Cynthia Chavez
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