Bridgespan: Leadership Accelerator - Investing in Future Leaders
Program Overview
Talent development is not just the responsibility of your HR team—it's a critical concern for your leadership team. In this program, your leadership team will develop a customized approach to talent development that will help you develop your organization’s next generation of leaders.
Who: Nonprofit leadership teams
Format: Online with structured team discussions and coaching support
Price per team: $15,000
Next session: AUGUST 2025; Enrollment opens on April 15
Program Benefits
Investing in your organization’s future leaders is critical. A steady pipeline of effective leaders prepared to step up can lead to:
- Greater retention of high performers
- A stronger, more inclusive, and intentional culture
- A team that is better prepared to thrive in dynamic and uncertain conditions
- Greater stability and resilience within the organization
In this program, your team will:
- Define what “great leadership” looks like for current and future leaders by crafting a set of equitable leadership competencies
- Co-create professional development plans with your staff that you can use immediately
- Create an action plan to implement talent development across the organization
Who Should Participate?
This program is designed for nonprofit senior leadership teams of three to six leaders—which is often the CEO/ED and their direct reports.
Top reasons organizations participate:
- Your organization is growing, or you have completed a strategic plan and want the right talent to bring it to life
- You want to ensure you’re centering equity in your talent development practices
- You need to do succession planning for key senior leaders
Why do this work as a leadership team: Leadership development is not just the work of the HR department or of individual managers. Leadership teams aligned on talent development ensure that all staff develop with a consistent and agreed-upon set of priorities in mind, reducing bias and providing opportunity to all emerging leaders. This program teaches your leadership team critical strategic management skills you can continue to use over time.
How It Works
Your team is in the driver’s seat and can choose the pace that is right for you. Expert Bridgespan coaches provide support for your team’s point person, or project lead, via email, weekly check-ins, and one-on-one coaching at critical points throughout the program. Your total time commitment through the process will be about 25 to 30 hours per person.
Get Started
Step 1: Complete the Request More Information form at the bottom of this page to get started or email us.
Step 2: A member of the Leadership Accelerator team will contact you within seven days to schedule a discovery call. We’ll ask you about your organization and team size.
Step 3: If we agree that the program is a good fit, we’ll send you an enrollment form!
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Related Resources
The Bridgespan Group is a global nonprofit that strives to make the world more equitable and just. Since 2000, we have had the privilege of advising and collaborating with many of the world’s most extraordinary social change leaders including philanthropists, nonprofit and NGO leaders, and impact investors.
We are passionate about helping social change leaders find solutions to economic and social barriers that perpetuate inequities and prevent individuals, families, and communities from having access to opportunities they need to thrive. We use rigorous research to gain insights that help our clients solve problems and achieve their goals.
Our services include strategy consulting and advising, sourcing and diligence, and leadership team support. We take what we learn from this work and build on it with original research, identifying best practices and innovative ideas to share with the social sector.
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