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The Nonprofit CEO Podcast

Adam Jeske
Leadership
Nonprofit Sector
World Relief
Community Food Club
Nonprofit Leadership
American Bible Society
Mission One
Trust In Institutions
Bread For the World
Wheaton College
Missio Nexus
Indianapolis
Prison Fellowship
World Hope International
Covid-19
Stakeholder Gap
Higher Education
Mennonite Central Committee
Racial Equity
Rwanda

Nonprofit CEOs carry decisions they can't fully discuss with their board, their team, or their peers. So they carry them alone.

Each week, Adam Jeske, The Nonprofit CEO Advisor, sits down with a nonprofit CEO to go inside the decisions they carry: the agonizing restructure, the wonky board dynamic, the moment that defined their tenure.

Adam has been in over 230 of these conversations. The patter... more

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In 2021, YouVersion’s Bible App passed half a billion devices. The team celebrated. Bobby Gruenewald knew growth was barely above flat, and the milestone “felt very hollow.” 

He decided that if he wasn’t going to steward it well, someone else should... more

In six months, the Community Food Club grew by 47 percent. AJ Fossel had six people on staff. She was stocking onions in the back because there was nobody else. A trusted teammate told her she was going to leave.

AJ sat in her office after hours and... more

Three days into his tenure, Will Jones was asked to sign a letter moving $150,000 from Thompson's endowment to cover a $200,000 payroll. 

Two weeks later, the same letter was back on his desk. 

Thompson was spending about $5 million a year more tha... more

The hard calls, the ones that are 51/49, are supposed to land on the CEO's desk. Romanita Hairston warns that without a clear escalation framework, you'll be doing the wrong work. 

"You can be making 51/49 decisions, but not the most consequential o... more

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AJ Fossel
Executive Director at the Community Food Club
Community Food Club
Episode: 033 Can I Tell the Board I'm Drowning? | Community Food Club Executive Director AJ Fossel
Romanita Hairston
CEO of MJ. Murdock Charitable Trust
MJ. Murdock Charitable Trust
Episode: 031 Am I Supposed to Decide This? | M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust CEO Romanita Hairston
Shane Williamson
President and CEO of The Fellowship of Christian Athletes
Fellowship of Christian Athletes
Episode: 030 Is This Mission Drift? | FCA President & CEO Shane Williamson
Heather Rice-Minus
President and CEO at Prison Fellowship
Prison Fellowship
Episode: 029 What Am I Even Doing Here? | Prison Fellowship President & CEO Heather Rice-Minus
Barry Corey
President of Biola University
Biola University
Episode: 028 Teach Me to Care and Not to Care | Biola University President Barry Corey
Nick Grono
CEO of the Freedom Fund
Freedom Fund
Episode: 025 He Got a $60 Million Gift. Then He Left | Freedom Fund CEO Nick Grono
Carol Bremer-Bennett
US Executive Director, World Renew
World Renew
Episode: 024 Treating Complaints as Gifts | World Renew Executive Director Carol Bremer-Bennett
Jenn Petersen
President and CEO at World Hope International
World Hope International
Episode: 022 Ending Our Only Recurring Revenue | World Hope International President & CEO Jenn Peterson
Ann Graber Hershberger
Executive Director of the Mennonite Central Committee
Mennonite Central Committee (MCC)
Episode: 019 The Mud Floor Test | Mennonite Central Committee U.S. Exec. Dir. Ann Graber Hershberger

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025 He Got a $60 Million Gift. Then He Left | Freedom Fund CEO Nick Grono
Q: What were the biggest factors influencing the timing of your exit and the search for a successor?
Key factors included ensuring the organization remained strong financially and strategically, leveraging the MacKenzie gift to set up a strong handover, and creating space for a capable successor while maintaining momentum for ongoing programs.
024 Treating Complaints as Gifts | World Renew Executive Director Carol Bremer-Bennett
Q: How did you address governance and structural changes to support culture?
She and her co-director created a global executive team to replace the flat structure, aligning accountability and collaboration across dispersed leadership.
024 Treating Complaints as Gifts | World Renew Executive Director Carol Bremer-Bennett
Q: What was the most consequential decision you made, and why was it important?
Choosing to actively build an organizational culture of psychological safety, starting with personal example and extending through the organization, was pivotal for trust, feedback, and learning.
024 Treating Complaints as Gifts | World Renew Executive Director Carol Bremer-Bennett
Q: How long have you been leading at World Renew, and what stands out about that period?
She had completed 10 years as executive director, reflecting on long-term changes, including building psychological safety and later organizational restructures.
028 Teach Me to Care and Not to Care | Biola University President Barry Corey
Q: Can you take us inside one decision of consequence, something that you can disclose some of the details about and help us learn from?
Barry describes a hard leadership moment involving removing a leader he had hired, faced with the need to change direction for the university, and how the weight of that decision was heavy yet necessary for the institution's future.

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The show centers on senior nonprofit leaders sharing the tough decisions they carried, from radical organizational changes and governance dynamics to crisis responses and funding pivots. Each conversation reveals how leaders balance mission, board expectations, stakeholder communications, and personal resilience while steering sizable nonprofits through complex, high-stakes moments. Across episodes, guests illuminate practical leadership patterns, decision-making processes, and the human side of leading mission-driven organizations, often with honest reflections on accountability, transparency, and long-range strategy. Noteworthy is the consistent focus on governance, culture, and strategic pivots driven by faith-informed values, measurable... more

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2. Romanita Hairston
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