When Lisa Wallenda Picard took the top job at National Fisheries Institute (NFI) in December 2022, NFI’s longtime president and CEO John Connelly was supposed to help with the transition before retiring. But he died unexpectedly.Picard only had the results of a post- COVID survey asking members what they wanted in a new CEO and a spreadsheet of everything Connelly had been working on to go by. But she didn’t know what the entries meant. She gave staff at the Reston, Virginia-based trade association time to process the loss before asking them to help fill in the blanks. Some of them had been present throughout Connelly’s nearly 20-year tenure.“While he created so many fantastic things, he was… Read More