If your nonprofit doesn't have a succession plan, you still have a succession plan. It's called scrambling.

In this episode of Kari's Confessions: A Nonprofit Exec Tells All, Kari Anderson unpacks why nonprofit succession planning gets avoided, and what it actually takes to protect your mission when leadership changes.

Kari walks through the difference between an emergency succession plan (the tomorrow morning plan) and a planned leadership transition (the next chapter plan), and why most organizations need both. She shares the story of an executive director who quietly became the system, and the board that wrote a job description for a nonprofit unicorn.

You'll also get a practical six-step framework: identify key roles rather than key people, map the relationships tied to revenue and influence, document how the work actually gets done, define interim authority and decision rights, build leadership development into the plan, and connect succession to strategy and revenue. Kari closes with five common mistakes boards make and a one-hour challenge you can put on the calendar this week.

Succession planning is not a prediction that someone will leave. It's a promise that the mission can continue whenever change comes.

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