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 Laura Gassner OttingPresident & CEO connect on LinkedIn Laura Gassner Otting founded the Nonprofit Professionals Advisory Group in 2002. Prior to forming the group, she help build the start-up ExecSearches.com, a leading website for mid- to senior-level nonprofit job postings, and served as a vice president at Isaacson, Miller, one of the most highly respected nonprofit executive search firms in the country. Previously, Laura served as a presidential appointee for the White House Office of National Service and a program officer for the Corporation for National and Community Service, where she was part of the team that created the AmeriCorps, and as a member of the Clinton/Gore Transition Team and 1992 Election Team. She holds a Master of Arts in Political Management from the George Washington University and a Bachelor of Arts in Government from the University of Texas at Austin. Laura serves on the boards of College Bound Dorchester, AmeriCorps Alums, and the Eli J. Segal Citizen Leadership Program at Brandeis University, and is the Clerk and Governance Chair of the board of Newton Montessori School. She has served as a member of the board of Camp Starfish and the Alumni Board of the Graduate School of Political Management at the George Washington University and as the founding board chair of both Strong Women, Strong Girls and the Boston Choral Ensemble. Laura is a curator for TedxBeaconStreet in Boston.
Laura is the author of Change Your
Career: Transitioning to the Nonprofit Sector and is widely
quoted for her expertise in mission-driven work in publications
like The New York Times, The Chronicle of Philanthropy
and Money magazine.
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Acknowledgements "I can't tell
you how important it is for a small nonprofit, with ambitious
goals, to have the right people on board. I know you know this,
but it really does makes all the difference. Perhaps more so,
when you're trying to break significantly new ground, as we are
trying to do. Furthermore, I know this was not an easy search.
It was very non-traditional and required a difficult combination
of skills, experience and willingness to take risk. But, you
were great partners, you stuck with it, we course-corrected, and
you contributed senior executive time to working to it, all of
which led to success."
- Alex Rossides, President,
Co-Founder Growth Philanthropy Network "In addition to framing a compelling story and crafting a strategy to get the word out to the right kinds of candidates, Laura trained me on how to interview candidates in order to get a detailed accounting of their past successes and understand what strengths—and weaknesses—the candidates were likely to bring to the position. She also taught me how to conduct useful reference checks, using these as a mechanism for testing hypotheses about the strengths and weaknesses of the candidates. In all of this, Laura was more than willing to teach me how to complete each step of this process, thereby building the capacity of Common Impact to complete subsequent searches more effectively." - Theresa Ellis, CEO, Common Impact |
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