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Bryant Group Places President and CEO at Kansas Leadership Center

(March 27, 2023) Dallas-based executive search and leadership consulting firm Bryant Group, conducted a nationwide search resulting in Dr. V. Kaye Monk-Morgan securing the role as President and CEO of Kansas Leadership Center (KLC).

“I welcomed and appreciated Bryant Group’s attention to detail in every step of the process. Throughout the search experience, I knew what happened next. And, as a candidate, I felt fully supported,” said Dr. Monk-Morgan.

For 30 years, Dr. Monk-Morgan has served the people of Kansas as an university administrator, educator and advocate with decades of service to Wichita State University. She most recently served as the Chief Impact Officer for the Kansas Leadership Center and prior to that was the vice president for Strategic Engagement and Planning at Wichita State University. Her undying belief that all Kansans can impact their communities for good is motivation and the foundation for her commitment to the future work of the Kansas Leadership Center. Dr. Monk-Morgan assumed the role of President and CEO of the Kansas Leadership Center effective March 6, 2023.

The Kansas Leadership Center (KLC) is a first-of-its-kind nonprofit educational organization with a civic mission, national reputation and global reach. Founded in 2007 to foster leadership for stronger, healthier and more prosperous Kansas communities, KLC receives core funding from the Kansas Health Foundation (a private, philanthropic organization). It partners with nonprofit organizations, government agencies, educational institutions, businesses and communities to build cultures that are healthy, productive and well-positioned to make measurable progress on daunting challenges and emergent opportunities. KLC Press publishes leadership books and The Journal, a nationally recognized, award-winning civic issues magazine.

Over the past 15 years, KLC has built a strong and respected institution in Kansas designed to deliver leadership development and culture change at unparalleled scale. Now, organizations across the country and around the world look to us to provide resources and consultation to support their own aspirations for mission-driven leadership education.

Advancing Great Leadership

Bryant Group, based in Irving, Texas, and with associates located across the United States, specializes in executive search and leadership consulting for higher education, healthcare and nonprofits with an emphasis on advancement leaders and other executives. In 1988, Bryant Group founder, Chris Bryant, started one of the country’s first search firms, specializing in philanthropy recruitment. Now under the leadership of CEO and President Sally Bryant, the woman-owned firm has a 34-year history of recruiting, developing and coaching great leaders. Bryant Group has impacted more than 10,000 leaders and served more than 275 organizations.