Dr. Hal M. Lewis is the Principal Consultant for Leadership for Impact LLC, an executive coaching and leadership-consulting firm serving the needs of North American nonprofit organizations. Over a career that has spanned more than thirty-five years, Dr. Lewis has been both an extremely successful nonprofit executive and a highly regarded professor of leadership. He has held senior executive positions in a variety of nonprofit organizations. In addition, he has taught and written on the subject of organizational leadership in both the academic and popular press. Because he combines the perspective of both a scholar and a practitioner, Dr. Lewis’ work is informed by research and best practice, along with a pragmatic understanding of the challenges facing contemporary nonprofit leaders.
As a nonprofit executive himself, Dr. Lewis has been credited with two major organizational turnarounds, the rebranding of a staid 20th century educational organization, raising more than $50MM in annual, capital, endowment, and deferred gifts over a 10-year period, and driving a succession planning effort that resulted in a seamless CEO transition.
Since 2018 Dr. Lewis has served as an executive coach and organizational consultant specializing in nonprofit organizations. In his practice he works with veteran and new CEOs, along with other members of the senior professional team and with board members of 501 (c) 3 organizations. His primary areas of focus include volunteer-professional relations, evolving approaches to board governance, management and supervision, personal and institutional values clarification, change leadership, and leading through crises. In addition, he is intimately acquainted with issues related to fundraising, stewardship, branding and coalition building.
A master educator, he has been Visiting Professor at universities around the world and has served as a member of the on-call faculty of the Center for Creative Leadership in Greensboro, NC. He served for a decade as the President and CEO of Spertus College in Chicago, where he continues to serve as professor of leadership. His major academic areas of interest are faith-based approaches to effective leadership, the role of humility in leadership, gender in leadership education, succession planning and transitioning, crisis leadership, and effective volunteer-professional relations.
His extensive experience as both a scholar and a practitioner give him a unique perspective on not-for-profit organizations. His broad range and engaging style make him an often-sought-after coach, consultant, speaker and trainer.
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