About The Firm

New Leadership Group is a national retained executive search firm serving the non-profit and public sectors. We strengthen organizations by recruiting leaders of exceptional expertise, interpersonal acumen, and vision. Our training and coaching programs provide long-lasting impact and value to individuals and institutions alike.

An organization’s long term success is achieved by the convergence of purpose, people, and organizational capacity. It is at this intersection that we work on behalf of our clients, and it is where our commitment and values lie.

gale Gale Batchelder, Principal, founded New Leadership Group in 2005 after twenty-five years in non-profit leadership and consulting, including twelve years in executive search assignments for educational, philanthropic, and health care organizations.

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). Her interest in the application of psychology to organizational management and leadership coupled with a continuing commitment to mission-driven organizations led to a year at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, where she earned a Master’s in Public Administration in 1989.

In 1990 she joined a national executive search firm serving higher education, not-for profit, and health care clients, serving as Senior Consultant and Vice President. She has extensive experience working with academic and medical school search committees, and specializes in helping committees to assess the emotional intelligence, leadership competence, and strategic fit of candidates with an institution’s challenges and aspirations. Emerging areas of practice include the coaching of search committees on ways to build consensus at critical junctures during a search, and the coaching of new leaders as they enter key leadership positions.

Gale’s own leadership experiences also inform her work as a consultant. She was the first Executive Director of a 93 year-old volunteer community-service organization and has consulted to health care organizations on both fund raising and program planning initiatives.

Gale is a graduate of LeadBoston’s class of 2000 and is currently a Board member of the Mystic Chorale, Inc. She earned her B.A. in Philosophy from Beloit College and an M.Ed. in Counseling Psychology from Boston University.

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