About the Firm
New Leadership Group, a retained national executive search firm founded in 2005, is ideally positioned to guide your nonprofit organization through a successful leadership transition. We work with large, established institutions as well as with start-ups across the sector.
As your partner in ensuring your institution’s long term success, we are attentive to the importance of aligning your mission, people, and organizational capacity. We have committed our careers and our own civic leadership to strengthening public-purpose organizations – so that they can better serve their constituents.
We recruit leaders of exceptional expertise, interpersonal acumen, and vision who can strengthen your institution.
Our coaching and training programs help hiring managers to recognize and evaluate critical leadership competencies; help new hires transition into their roles; and support new and emerging leaders.
Our commitments:
The firm’s senior leaders handle all critical elements of the search
Diversity, equity, and inclusion are core values of the firm; we work with you to ensure that candidate pools are diverse, and that the selection process is guided by those values
We stay with the search until it is completed to your satisfaction
We follow-up regularly with candidate and client to ensure a smooth transition
We will not recruit the candidate you hire
Client and candidate information is held in strictest confidence
If the successful candidate leaves his/her post within one year, we will redo the search with no additional professional fee
About the Founder and Principal
Gale Batchelder, Founder and Principal, has over twenty-five years of experience as an executive recruiter for nonprofit and public sector organizations. She has led engagements for philanthropic, cultural, healthcare, social service, advocacy, disease research foundations, and international public health organizations. Gale has extensive experience working with boards of directors and with academic search committees, helping clients assess the emotional intelligence, leadership competence, and strategic fit of candidates with their institution’s challenges and aspirations. She is an experienced executive coach, working with new and established leaders on professional development and job transitions.
Early in her career, Gale was a psychotherapist and clinical supervisor in social services agencies in the Boston area and at McLean Hospital, a Harvard teaching hospital. Gale’s own leadership experience informs her work as a search consultant. As the first Executive Director of a 93 year-old volunteer community-service organization, she streamlined operations and staffing, raised the public profile of the organization, and initiated a successful grant-funding program. She has consulted to health care organizations and arts organizations on fund raising and program planning initiatives.
Community leadership activities include serving as Board Chair of the Harvard Kennedy School New England Alumni Council; Chair and Strategic Planning Chair, Mystic Chorale, Inc.; Proposal Reviewer, Innovations in American Government (Harvard University/Ford Foundation); Treasurer, North End Union, Inc.; TV Producer, Boston Community Access and Programming Foundation; and Volunteer Tutor, Cambridge Rindge and Latin High School and Cambridge Community Learning Center.
Gale is a published poet and a founding partner of Off the Park Press, a poetry collaborative. She earned an MPA from Harvard Kennedy School, an MEd in Counseling Psychology from Boston University, and a BA in Philosophy from Beloit College.