James Abruzzo shares thoughtful insights on leadership, compensation, succession, and governance in the nonprofit and cultural sectors. His writing reflects decades of hands-on experience and academic analysis, bridging theory and practice for board members, CEOs, and sector professionals.
In this follow-up to his previous post, James Abruzzo discusses how becoming an independent consultant can be a path to
Advice to compensation committeeBest practices in nonprofit executive compensation (revised 10/17)
The global arts industry, and the arts leaders entrusted to connect us with the truth and beauty embodied in art,
The last chapter in “Nonprofit Boards and Executive Contracts” covers the Supplemental Executive Retirement Plan, or SERP, an element of
Nonprofit boards, and their executives, are being pummeled by events that can best be described as ethical dilemmas and which
Museum staffs are unionizing like wildfire – what’s to be done about it, and by whom? Three recent articles detail
Employment contracts are communications between the Board and the CEO. They describe facts, amounts, consequences, conditions, and time periods. They
Episode One: Severance Many of my clients, boards of nonprofit organizations, often object when I suggest offering their CEO an
The Brooklyn Museum, one of the world’s great universal art museums (if it were in any other American city or
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