CEO Update’s first Association CEO Recruitment Trends report shows that 45% of CEO placements were women and 20% were people of color in the 12 months from October 2023 through September 2024.Seventy percent of the new CEOs were hired from outside the associations they would lead and 70% were first-time CEOs, most of them with expertise in government relations. One-third were hired from the for-profit sector.The results were taken from 113 CEO hiring announcements published in CEO Update in the year. The announcements came from nonprofit organizations, primarily trade associations, standard-setting bodies, professional societies and public interest groups.The diversity… Read More