The 5 Truths for Transformational Leaders How Nonprofit Organizations Thrive, Grow, and Make a Profound Difference

Use mission-driven leadership to create dramatic growth at your nonprofit 

In The Five Truths for Transformational Leaders: How Nonprofit Organizations Thrive, Grow, and Make a Profound Difference, former Chief Strategy Officer for the Boys and Girls Clubs of America, Ed Mishrell, delivers an insightful and practical discussion of how to achieve extraordinary results when leading nonprofit organizations. The author explains how to use your organization’s mission as your north star and build an exciting, growing, and thriving nonprofit. 

You’ll benefit from the book’s step-by-step guidance and advice as it outlines the five key principles of mission-driven leadership. You’ll also discover incisive quotes and observations from board members and staff leaders at fast-growing nonprofit organizations you can apply to your own nonprofit for immediate results. 

The book also offers:  

• Strategies for eliminating or repairing ineffective systems and practices that are holding your organization back
• Techniques for centering your nonprofit’s mission in everything it does
• Ways to build – and execute – a mission-driven strategy 

A start-to-finish blueprint for exceptional, growth-oriented nonprofit leadership, The Five Truths for Transformational Leaders will revolutionize the work of every nonprofit board member, manager, and leader who reads it. 

ED MISHRELL (retired) was the Chief Strategy Officer at the Boys & Girls Clubs of America (BGCA) from 2010 to 2019. He led the development and deployment of BGCA’s strategic and operating plans. He is a sought-after speaker and presenter and has led hundreds of leadership training programs at various regional and national conferences.

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1 Truth #1: Be Fanatical About Mission:

• Community Centers of Mission City: Board Meeting Summary
• Three Reasons for a Fanatical Believe in Mission
• Community Centers of Mission City Board Meeting One Month Later
• Questions and Thoughts for Aspiring Mission-Driven CPOs
• My Mission Origin Story
• Notes for Board Members

Chapter 2 Truth # 2: Fix, Stabilize or Replace Systems, Practices and People that are not Working

• Helen’s First Board Meeting as CPO
• Fix and Stabilize Systems and Practices
• Make Needed People Changes
• Two weeks after Helen’s first Board Meeting
• Community Centers of Mission City Emergency Board Meeting One Week Later
• Summary
• Notes for Board Members

Chapter 3 Truth # 3: Establish a Mission Driven Strategy

• Six Months Later: Community Centers of Mission City Board Retreat
• A Mission Driven Strategy
• Mission Strategy 
• Organizational Capability
• Community Centers of Mission City Measurement Plan
• Resource Acquisition
• Community Centers of Mission City Board Meeting One Month after Board Retreat 
• Board Development and Engagement Strategy

Chapter 4 Truth # 4: Execution Drives Results

• Community Center of Mission City One Year Later
• Relentlessly communicate the strategy at every opportunity over and over and over again.
• Focus on what is most important
• Establish an annual plan with clear, priorities, targets, and progress measures
• Strategic Planning Committee Meeting to Review Operating Plan for Coming Year
• Community Centers of Mission City Annual Operating Plan
• Execute the Plan
• Summary
• Notes for Board Members

Chapter 5 Truth  # 5:Continue to Grow as a Leader

• Let’s Start at the Beginning
• My Leadership Journey
• Community Centers of Mission City Three Years Later
• Making a commitment to personal growth and the willingness to be vulnerable
• Adopting a growth mindset
• Continuously seek feedback  
• Recognizing and acting on what the organization needs now and, in the future
• Helen’s next meeting with incoming Board Chair
• Summary
• Notes for Board Members

Chapter 6: The Road Ahead: Meeting the trends and challenges that will shape the future

• Community Centers of Mission City: Six Years Latter
• Trends, Challenges, and Opportunities
• What will be required of leaders?
• Developing the Next Generation of Leaders
• Final Thoughts
• Notes for Board members

Resource Center

Bibliography

About the Author

Index

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