The Nonprofit Thrive Alliance helps boards, executives, and staff navigate leadership transitions with continuity, clarity, and care. We are the connective tissue between the search firm, the interim, the incoming leader, and the mission.
Based in North Carolina. Serving nonprofit senior living, community foundations, endowment-backed institutions, and cultural organizations across the Southeast.
The search firm finds the candidate. The interim holds the seat. The coach develops the leader. The board waits. The staff wonders. Donors watch. And the mission, the whole reason any of this matters, sits exposed in the space between handoffs. Most transitions don't fail at the hire. They fail in the connective tissue nobody owns.
Down from over a decade in 2018. New leaders step into complex roles without institutional knowledge or team cohesion.
Leaving new executives without the structured support that determines whether the first year succeeds or stalls.
Record demand is colliding with record workforce pressure, and the sector's boards weren't built for either.
We don't replace the firms already serving our clients. We integrate their work. Our methodology covers the three moments where transitions quietly fail: before the search begins, during the vacancy, and long after the new leader's first day.
The work most boards skip because they don't know they need it, until a CEO resigns. We prepare governance bodies to lead through transition with confidence and equity.
Interim executive leadership paired with the work no one else is doing: aligning donors, staff, residents, families, and community partners during the vacancy. In senior living especially, silence during a transition is a risk no organization can afford.
Most transitions are declared complete at 90 days. That's precisely when the real work begins. We extend the runway, stabilize governance, and graduate leaders into peer cohorts that carry them through the first full year.
A search firm finds the person. We make sure the organization is still standing when they arrive, and thriving when they leave.
Life plan communities, CCRCs, and faith-based senior services across North Carolina, Georgia, South Carolina, and Tennessee. Shortening CEO tenure, aging boards, and post-pandemic workforce pressure are colliding with record occupancy demand. We know this sector, and we know what transition risk looks like here.
Community foundations, endowment-backed nonprofits, and cultural organizations with long institutional legacies. Our methodology travels. When governance continuity matters and transitions carry strategic weight, we bring the same integrity framework to the engagement.
NPTA is a strategic partnership between two founder-led firms, anchored by a senior academic advisor. Our team has served as executive directors, senior executive coaches, certified interim executives, and institutional leaders. We know what the work asks of a person, because we've done it.
Founder of LUR Growth with 15+ years of nonprofit executive leadership. Former Executive Director of Neighbors for Better Neighborhoods, where she led a 286% budget growth over four years. Latoya anchors NPTA's strategic planning, board governance, and organizational capacity work.
CEO of Wake Point Talent Management, Certified Interim Executive, and Strategic Advisor with Armstrong McGuire & Associates. 25+ years in leadership development, executive coaching, and talent management across Fortune 500 and nonprofit sectors. Published author of The Top 5 Soft Skills Leaders Must Have.
Assistant Professor at North Carolina A&T State University, Board Secretary of AISES, and former superintendent-track education executive. Brings institutional research, board assessment, and accreditation expertise to every engagement.
NPTA is built on the belief that no single firm can do this work alone. We operate as a strategic alliance of specialized practitioners, bringing together executive search, leadership development, health equity expertise, and strategic advisory into one coordinated client experience. Our alliance members contribute deep subject-matter expertise across executive search and nonprofit leadership placement, leadership development and organizational consulting, health equity and public health communications strategy, and strategic advisory paired with CPD-accredited professional development.
Whether your board is preparing for a planned transition, navigating an unexpected vacancy, or stabilizing a recent hire, the earlier we connect, the more we can protect.
