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Scenario

When your nonprofit board discovers financial misconduct by an effective leader

My nonprofit board and I discovered our executive director has been using organizational funds for personal expenses but she's also the only reason we survived the pandemic and serves communities no one else will touch. Half the board wants to fire her immediately and half think we should handle this quietly internally, and I'm realizing we have no real framework for what integrity even means when the stakes are this high.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A group must navigate the tension between institutional accountability and pragmatic effectiveness when ethical violations intersect with organizational survival.

Your guide for this
Juana
Juana works with people navigating exactly this kind of situation.
Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Institutional ethics and organizational integrity?”

Peri

Peri can explain why this happens, help you decide if this is the right situation for you, and point toward the right journey or coach.

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