Aspen Leadership Group

About Us

Aspen Leadership Group is focused exclusively on supporting leaders in philanthropy. The core of its business is executive search and strategic talent management consulting. The firm provides tailored search solutions, allowing organizations at all budget levels to benefit from its services. They offer complementary consulting services that enhance the success of leaders in philanthropy, including strategic thought partnership (leader-to-leader consulting for CEOs and CDOs), leadership retreat facilitation, core values workshops, and strategic and operational planning for advancement organizations.

Each of its consultants has more than 20 years of experience in nonprofit leadership and has built relationships across the nonprofit sector and around the globe over decades. They have served in senior development/advancement positions and have led campaigns ranging from $30 million to $2.3 billion. Aspen Leadership Group team members are united in its commitment to the nonprofit sector and to a new approach to search, wherein leaders in the field of philanthropy work directly with other current and emerging leaders to build enduring professional relationships. They are dedicated to supporting careers, not merely filling positions.

Aspen Leadership Group serves higher education and K-12 institutions, arts and culture organizations, healthcare institutions and hospitals, foundations, and social service and community-based organizations. They are dedicated to working with you to strengthen your advancement team’s culture, commitment, and capability — visit them at www.aspenleadershipgroup.com.

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All of the firm’s consultants, associates, and advisors are highly experienced fundraising leaders. They have served as board chairs, philanthropists, presidents, deans, and senior development and advancement officers.

They apply the same principles to search and other consulting that they have applied to their work with donors: they create long-term relationships with clients and candidates, building partnerships intended to last throughout a career, not only for the duration of one search or one consulting assignment.

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Solutions And Expertise

Aspen Leadership Group serves higher education and K-12 institutions, arts and culture organizations, healthcare institutions and hospitals, foundations, and social service and community-based organizations. They are dedicated to working with you to strengthen your advancement team’s culture, commitment, and capability.

Solutions
  • Advisory Services
  • Assessment
  • Board Services
  • Career Services
  • Culture Shaping
  • Diversity & Inclusion
  • Executive Coaching
  • Executive Search
  • Leadership Consulting
  • Leadership Develop.
  • Mgmt. Consulting
  • Onboarding
  • Org. Chart Mapping
  • Workplace Mgmt.
Industries
Functions
  • Board/Governance
  • CEO/President
  • Communications/PR
  • Development
  • Diversity & Inclusion
  • Human Resources

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News Briefings

Aspen Leadership Group Tapped to Find Advancement Officer at National Museum of Wildlife Art

The National Museum of Wildlife Art (NMWA) in Jackson Hole has commenced a search for a chief advancement officer. The non-profit recently enlisted Aspen Leadership Group, an executive recruitment firm based in Aspen, CO, to lead the search. The chief advancement officer, said the firm, will guide NMWA’s advancement strategy, manage day-to-day operations and make

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Belief and Confidence
Nonprofit professionals rarely ask, and donors rarely discuss, how a giving experience compared to other giving experiences, and how they come to decisions about the few organizations with which they form their deepest philanthropic partnerships.

Advancing Your Career in Philanthropy with Ron Schiller
This month, Ron Schiller, Founding Partner of the Aspen Leadership Group, joins us to share tips for advancing your career in development. In this episode, Ron explains how the transferable skills from his background in the arts set him up for success.

Stop Talking About Your Organization. Start Listening to Donors
All too often, fundraisers and charitable organizations ignore or even reject the proven practices that unlock the largest gifts from philanthropic individuals and families. That’s why most nonprofits are only realizing…

The Chief Development Officer: Beyond Fundraising
Until recently, the chief development officer (CDO) has focused primarily, if not exclusively, on fundraising. In the past two decades, largely in response to greater demand and competition for fundraising revenue, the responsibilities…