Case Study:
How We Filled an Executive Director Role for a Portland Healthcare Foundation
About the Industry:
A five-person foundation lost its long-time executive director with no internal successor. We delivered a hire with the specific healthcare expertise the role required in 11 weeks.
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Challenge:
The foundation’s long-time executive director resigned. With a staff of five, several of them fairly new to the organization, there was no internal successor.
The search was also narrower than a typical nonprofit leadership hire. The foundation supports a specific healthcare need, and the incoming director had to already understand how that system works, including where the funding comes from and which partners the organization depends on.
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Our Portland executive search team partnered with the client on a targeted search strategy, leveraging our talent pipeline and proactive market outreach to identify high-caliber candidates. We conducted comprehensive candidate assessments aligned with the client’s core needs.
Once finalists were identified, we facilitated an onsite interview day, creating a meaningful connection between the candidates and key stakeholders. This allowed the client to make a successful hiring decision with confidence.
Outcome: Portland Healthcare Foundation Fills Executive Director Role
Mulberry Talent Partners filled the Executive Director position in 11 weeks. The foundation ended the search with a permanent leader who already knew the space, closing a gap a team of five could not have carried for long.