President's Council Presents
Inside Executive Search Firms:
What Development Professionals Need to Know
Thursday, November 4, 2021
6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
$20 for WID Members | $35 for Non-Members
FREE for President's Council Members and Bundle Holders
Featured Panel
Felicia Garcia-Hartstein
Search Consultant and Director of Search Management, Aspen Leadership Group
Esther Rosenberg
Co-Owner/Co-Managing Director, Howe-Lewis
Deb Taft
CEO, Lindauer Global
It feels like a “badge of honor” to be contacted by a prestigious executive search firm about a plum job opening. Whether we are asked to apply ourselves or asked to suggest names of suitable candidates, we know we are counted among the top professionals in the field.
Please join us on November 4th, as the WID President’s Council presents a unique opportunity to go behind the scenes with three outstanding leaders of major executive search firms and hear about the process of identification and recruitment of candidates. We will ask them key questions, such as how to “enter” executive firms’ databases; how to be considered and contacted for key positions; how to become a viable candidate; and much more.
We will come away with a clearer view of the recruitment process and how to become a sought-after candidate for the high-level opportunities we deserve.
Felicia Garcia-Hartstein serves as Search Consultant and Director for Search Management at Aspen Leadership Group (ALG), which helps nonprofit leaders recruit diverse, inclusive, and high-performing advancement teams. She helps lead the search management team, where she works to continuously improve ALG’s endeavor in recruiting exceptional talent and helping candidates navigate successful careers.
Prior to joining ALG, Felicia served as Executive Director of Presidential Advancement at the University of Rochester, where she worked closely with the President of the University, Board of Trustees, and VP of Advancement in order to engage the University’s alumni and friends. Additionally, she has a breadth of advancement experience including fundraising for an academic unit, regional fundraising, involvement in a $1.2 billion campaign from start to finish, and building a volunteer engagement program from the ground up. Previously, she worked for a Fortune 100 financial services company, TIAA, in Denver, Colorado.
She holds an MBA and a BS in Business Administration with a minor in Chicano Studies, both from Colorado State University-Pueblo. She is a Board Member of the AFP Genesee Valley Chapter and serves as its Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Access (IDEA) Chair. She is also a member of her town's Inclusion, Diversity and Equity Advisory Board.
Esther Rosenberg is Co-Owner of the executive search firm, Howe-Lewis International. She has conducted searches for local, national, and global health, education, human services, advocacy, cultural and community-based organizations. The firm recruits C-suite executives across the board and has a particular specialty in advancement searches. Esther started her executive search career at Korn/Ferry. Her earlier experience was in the not-for-profit community with the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation, the Metropolitan Opera, and Case Western Reserve University, Originally from Cleveland, Ohio, she attended the American University of Paris and received both a BA and an MA in French from Case Western Reserve University.
Deb Taft is CEO of Lindauer, a premier executive search and talent firm serving the nonprofit profession with deep expertise in advancement. An innovative leader in the education, healthcare/academic medicine, youth services and voluntary sectors, Deb was Senior EVP and Managing Director for Grenzebach Glier and Associates (GG+A) in Chicago, overseeing all domestic and global philanthropic consulting practices.
She previously served as Chief Development Officer and Interim Chief Strategy Officer for Girl Scouts of the USA and held prior executive roles at Simmons College, Tufts Medical Center and Floating Hospital for Children, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the Jimmy Fund, and Concord Academy. She serves on the Editorial Board of Giving USA, the Boards of the Giving Institute and Girl Scouts of Eastern Massachusetts, and recently completed her service and leadership of the Board of Directors for the Human Rights Campaign Foundation in Washington, DC. Deb continues to advance inclusion and equity in nonprofit leadership including through her service on the steering committee for Allies in Action for Women of Color in Philanthropy (WŌC) and through various appointed leadership roles for CASE, GSEMA, and HRC.
Deb was a founding team member of City Year, which today has youth service teams in more than 31 regions across the United States, the United Kingdom, and South Africa. She was honored as a Girl Scouts of Eastern MA Leading Woman in 2019 and as a 2021 member of the YW Boston Academy of Women Achievers. A renowned speaker and facilitator, Deb holds a bachelor’s degree from Harvard University and an MBA from Simmons School of Management.
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