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 Leading Chief Development Officer Search for the Pittsburgh Public Theater

Aspen Leadership Group, an executive search firm that specializes in recruiting top talent for philanthropic organizations, has been called in by the Pittsburgh Public Theater to lead in its search for a new chief development officer. Jeanette Rivera-Watts is leading the assignment. Reporting to the managing director and partnering closely with the artistic director, the

Aspen Leadership Group In CFO Hunt for Albion College

Aspen Leadership Group, an executive search firm that specializes in recruiting top talent for philanthropic organizations, has been enlisted to find a chief financial officer for Albion College in Michigan. Leading the assignment is Don Hasseltine, senior consultant and vice president. “This role will present the successful candidate with strategic questions, exciting challenges and continuous

New Ways to Retain and Hire Talent in the Midst of a Crisis

Many of you are gathering around your management table (virtually), grappling with how to get through these next few months and trying to imagine what is ahead. As you do, your organization may be faced with difficult decisions about cutting budgets, hiring freezes, furloughs and potentially letting people go. A new report by Aspen Leadership

Aspen Leadership Group Seeks Leader for League of American Orchestras

Aspen Leadership Group, an executive search firm that specializes in recruiting top talent for philanthropic organizations, is seeking a new president and chief executive officer for the League of American Orchestras. “The CEO will further the fulfillment of the mission of the League of American Orchestras: to advance the experience of orchestral music, support the

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Press Releases

Christopher Street West Announces Executive Director Search

LOS ANGELES, CA, February 7, 2018 – Christopher Street West (CSW), the non-profit organization that organizes LA Pride and LA Pride Festival, has announced it has hired recruitment firm Aspen Leadership Group to find an Executive Director. According to CSW Board Member and Marketing and Communications Lead Shayne Thomas, the move will provide the organization

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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…