Liberating Leadership Transitions

A Case Study in Partnership and Purpose Between NPAG and The LeadersTrust

As leaders in the social sector, we find ourselves in a dynamic moment of uncertainty and urgency. Our communities and families are asking for healing, and our institutions, systems, and structures – reckoning with their complicity with oppression – are being reimagined. Amid a huge amount of job transition in most sectors, many organizations are seizing this moment to examine their own ways of working and invite forward new leadership models. 

At NPAG and the LeadersTrust, we partnered to demonstrate how we can shift hiring and transition processes and practices that have historically supported inequity. While not always perfect, we are designing new processes that bring the people at the margins of decision-making to the center and practice respect from beginning to end. 

In this case study, we reflect on our partnership as a model of what is possible when we engage with people in ways that we wish to be engaged – with great care and forethought.