“…The United States nonprofit workforce is currently at a critical turning point with research delineating a nationwide executive leadership crisis (Froelich, McKee, & Rathge, 2011;Gothard & Austin, 2013;Landles-Cobb, Kramer, & Smith Milway, 2015;Vito, 2018). This crisis has been attributed to a number of factors including the retirement of the baby boomer generation (Landles-Cobb et al, 2015;Tierney, 2006), lack of skilled replacement leaders (Austin, Regan, Samples, Schwartz, & Carnochan, 2011;Deaton et al, 2013;Froelich et al, 2011), a projected 18% increase in need for social and community service managers between and 2026(U.S. Department of Labor, 2016, and the overall changing nature of nonprofit organizations resulting in more workers needing to develop more advanced leadership skills (Brungardt, 2011;Vito, 2018). As a result, the need for leadership learning and leadership development is high, and researchers have called for increased focus on nonprofit leadership development (Deaton et al, 2013;Gothard & Austin, 2013;Landles-Cobb et al, 2015).…”