Tuft Update: Helping You Manage Change

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Tuft & Associates, Inc., is pleased to update our colleagues and clients on what we’re doing to support today’s strategic leadership and staffing needs. We hope your summer offers you just the right mix of productivity and time to play!

As executive search consultants, we identify the best candidates for CEO, EVP, Executive Director, and senior management positions. But our job doesn’t stop there. Once your best candidate is confirmed, we partner with you to ensure a smooth transition. That’s why we develop customized transition plans and continue to stay in touch to support you, the candidate, and your organization. We look forward to working with you to effectively manage change and build your leadership team.

IN THIS ISSUE

Get smart advice for new CEOs and EDs on Managing Change.
Read about our Leadership Placements, including the new EVP & CEO of Texas Medical Association, the nation’s largest state medical association.
Check out Tuft Team News, plus the latest Open Searches for excellent career opportunities.

MANAGING CHANGE FOR NEW LEADERS

Tuft Associate Gail Luxenberg recently wrote “Managing Big Change: Top Tips for New Executive Directors & CEOs” for Blue Avocado, the online magazine for the Nonprofits Insurance Alliance.

Drawing on her past leadership experience with nonprofits, Luxenberg advises new EDs and CEOs to start with a full calendar to meet, listen, and promote accountability. “Aim to meet with all board members (or at least the executive committee), senior staff, and funders, with the only objective to get to know each of them and why they’re passionate about the work.” Luxenberg cautions that the “mere mention of accountability can result in early departures,” but there will be many more staff members who are excited to have a new leader with clear goals.

Luxenberg also advocates the use of “precision questioning” within the first 60-90 days, which goes beyond asking good questions to “questioning with respect and with judgment until a clear mutual understanding is reached.” Since your findings also will lead to changes, building “layers of support” with your team and with your Board President, in particular, is essential. Solid communications with every stakeholder also will set the stage for your successful leadership.

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LEADERS WE PLACE

Tuft’s recent executive leadership placements in 2019 include:

Michael J. Darrouzet, MS (HCA), FAAMSE, has been named Executive Vice President and CEO of the Texas Medical Association, Austin. Darrouzet previously was EVP and CEO of the Dallas County Medical Society and DCMS Foundation. The Tuft team of Jill Christie, Kathleen Henrichs, and Nancy Gray Puckett led the TMA executive search.

TMA is the 7th state medical association/society to partner with Tuft & Associates to fill top executive positions, joining: Arizona Medical Association, CEO; California Academy of Family Physicians, EVP/CEO; Illinois State Medical Society, VP, Health Policy Research; Iowa Medical Society, Executive Director; Michigan State Medical Society, Executive Director; and Minnesota Medical Association, CEO.

Walter Boza to Chief Marketing Officer, Residential Real Estate Council, Chicago. Tuft team: Gail Luxenberg

Lee Grossman, CAE, is the new Chief Executive Officer, Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation, Rosemont, IL. Tuft team: Jill Christie and Gail Luxenberg

Anne M. Minton, MBA, to Chief Executive Officer, Board of Certification for the Athletic Trainer (BOC), Omaha, NE. Tuft team: Jill Christie and Mary Nowesnick

Dennis Rizzo, MBA, CPA, to Chief Financial Officer, American Association of Neurological Surgeons, Rolling Meadows, IL. Tuft team: Karen Dunn Caspers

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TUFT TEAM NEWS

Associate Kathy Bell discussed CEO succession strategies at the April CEO Roundtable, sponsored by the Illinois Society of Association Executives (ISAE) and Association Forum in Springfield, Ill.

Associate Karen Dunn Caspers joined nearly 400 association management professionals at Forum Forward 2019 in Chicago on June 19 to explore new concepts and strategies for advancing today’s organizations.

Honors Gala. Tuft President Jill Christie joined colleagues and clients at Association Forum’s annual Honors Gala, Thursday, June 20, at the Marriott Marquis Chicago. Association executives joining Christie were, left to right: Ellen Moore, Pamela Kaul, Christie, Karen Horting (winner of the Inspiring Leader Award), Mona Buckley, and Shamus Hanlon.