Strengthen nonprofit leadership across your community in 6 months
A high-trust, live leadership development cohort for nonprofit CEOs and executive directors – designed to turn high-stakes decisions into clear priorities, stronger execution, and real momentum.
Led by Matt George, Harvard Business School Executive Leadership Coach and former CEO of a 500+ person nonprofit.
- 6-month cohort funding (designed to renew)
- 6 nonprofit leaders per cohort (small by design)
- Live & confidential (no recordings)
- 2x Group Leadership Sessions / month
- 1x Strategy Roundtable / month
- Private 1:1 Advisory with Matt every 6 weeks (including one in-person extended session)
- We handle onboarding, scheduling, reminders, and support
- Built for foundations, sponsors, agencies, or mixed underwriting
What it is
Impact Boardroom is a funder-underwritten leadership development cadence for nonprofit executives.
Led by Matt George, it combines group leadership sessions, a monthly strategy roundtable, and private advisory touchpoints so leaders can work through real decisions with real support.
Leaders bring live challenges, constraints, and in-progress work. The focus is not theory or passive content, it is leadership clarity, strategic decision-making, board alignment, fundraising focus, and execution that holds.
Mechanism outcome: Each session ends with clear priorities, what not to do, next actions, and the one checkpoint that proves progress before the next conversation.
Built for community foundations & community investment teams
This functions like a practical, low-lift capacity-building initiative for your grantee portfolio:
- One 6-month cohort for 5–7 leaders (6 ideal)
- Clear participation reporting (attendance + engagement)
- Live-only by design, No recordings. This is not content. It’s a working room so leaders can be candid, move fast, and deal with real constraints.
- We handle onboarding, scheduling, reminders, and support
- Designed for long-term development, funded in practical 6-month windows
Typical budget routing
Capacity building, leadership development, program support (where allowed), CSR/community investment. We invoice the funder; leaders participate once nominated.
Why this exists
The problem
Executive coaching is standard in business, but most nonprofit CEOs don’t have consistent access to it. That leaves leaders carrying high-stakes decisions alone, with boards that care deeply but have limited time. Priorities loop, meetings expand, and cash surprises show up too late.
Community foundations end up funding strong programs while the leadership operating system underneath them stays under-supported. When that system is weak, grants work harder than they should.
The opportunity
A relatively small investment in the executive layer can improve the fundamentals that determine whether programs succeed: decision-making, board alignment, cash discipline, fundraising focus, and execution cadence.
A cohort model adds leverage that 1:1 coaching can’t: peer pattern recognition, shared accountability, and faster adoption of simple disciplines that stick. Over 6 months, this creates real traction. With renewal, it becomes a compounding capacity-building asset across your portfolio.
Our solution
You fund a 6-month cohort built for real-time decisions and follow-through:
1. Group Leadership Sessions (2x/month)
Matt-led frameworks, practical teaching, and candid Q&A for better leadership decisions.
2. Strategy Roundtable (1x/month)
A 6-person working session where leaders pressure-test strategic initiatives, refine priorities, and learn from what is and isn’t working.
3. Private Advisory (every 6 weeks)
Direct 1:1 advisory with Matt for leader-specific decisions, constraints, and deeper strategic support, including one in-person session during the cohort.
a leadership operating upgrade
What you’re actually buying
A 6-month leadership operating upgrade for the nonprofits you already support.
This is capacity-building that compounds: it strengthens the operator layer that makes your other grants more effective.
Clear priorities & decision rules
so decisions stop looping and teams execute with fewer meetings
A board-ready story & plan
so fundraising becomes simpler, repeatable, and aligned with strategy
Better cash visibility & controls
so surprises reduce and stewardship gets stronger
A cadence that holds
so execution sticks after the calls end
What this looks like in practice:
In the first 60 days, a CEO reduced board looping by shifting to a 1-page decision memo and tighter meeting asks.
A leader implemented a simple cash forecast and caught a shortfall early enough to course-correct without a crisis.
A CEO narrowed fundraising to one clear target and a short next-actions plan, replacing scattered activity with follow-through.
Wins in the first 60-90 days
- Leaders leave calls with clear priorities for the quarter (and what they are explicitly not doing).
- Boards get a cleaner narrative and tighter meeting asks (less looping, more decisions).
- Cash visibility improves (simple forecast, fewer surprises, earlier course correction).
- Fundraising narrows to one clear target and next actions, replacing scattered activity.
- Teams adopt a cadence that keeps moving even when things get busy.
Cohort Options
Community Cohort (recommended)
Fund one cohort of 5–7 leaders drawn from across your grantee portfolio (6 ideal). We can provide simple selection criteria and a short nomination template, or work from your existing list.
Multiple Cohorts
(for larger portfolios)
Fund 2+ cohorts in parallel (for example: new EDs, scaling orgs, leaders in transition). Same model, separate rooms, separate reporting.
The model: Learn → Plan → Execute
Learn in Group Leadership Sessions
Matt leads live sessions with practical frameworks, examples, and candid Q&A drawn from decades of nonprofit leadership and executive coaching.
Refine plan in the Strategy Roundtable
A small 6-person working session where leaders bring real initiatives, pressure-test decisions, and learn from how peers are solving similar challenges.
Decide faster through Private Advisory
Private 1:1 advisory with Matt helps each leader work through sensitive decisions, constraints, and leadership dynamics that are better handled one-on-one.
Why this model is different
Group coaching or training programs
Useful ideas and peer community, but usually limited individual depth and weak follow-through on real organizational decisions.
Impact Boardroom sits in the middle
Impact Boardroom combines Matt-led leadership sessions, a 6-person Strategy Roundtable, and Private Advisory in one working cadence. Leaders get both peer perspective and direct support, without the cost of standalone 1:1 advisory for every leader.
At private advisory rates, one leader could consume this level of access alone. Impact Boardroom extends that value across an entire cohort.
1:1 advisory or consulting
Highly tailored and effective, but expensive to scale across multiple nonprofit leaders or organizations.
Pricing
One 6-Person Cohort (6 months): $18,000
Included in each cohort
Group Leadership Sessions
Strategy Roundtable
Private Advisory every 6 weeks
One in-person Private Advisory session per leader
(90 min, included)
Calendar invites, reminders, onboarding, and support
Live only, no recordings
Participation reporting (attendance & engagement)
Additional Information
One of each leader’s Private Advisory sessions is conducted in-person (90 minutes), typically after month 2, to deepen trust and apply the work in a real operating context.
Billing options:
Invoiced for a 6-month cohort ($18,000)
Optional payment schedule available (if needed for funder process)
Planning note for funders:
If you want to fund multiple cohorts (2+), we’ll propose a clean structure that matches your portfolio and reporting needs.
Common topics we cover
These topics show up across all three formats: group leadership sessions, strategy roundtables, and private advisory. We adapt to the room, but these themes are constant and practical.
Why fund this instead of another grant
Fiduciary lift
Stronger budgeting, cash flow, reserves, and controls.
Leadership lift
Clearer communication, healthier culture, aligned board.
Execution lift
Fewer priorities, tighter cadence, faster decisions.
Low lift for you
We handle onboarding, invites, cadence, and support.
Privacy respected
Live only; no recordings.
How funding works
Set the cohort scope
Confirm funding details
Nominate leaders
We run the cadence
Receive progress updates
About Matt George
Why nonprofit leaders trust Matt George
- 30+ years of executive nonprofit leadership
- Trusted advisor to Fortune 500 CEOs & major foundations
- Executive Leadership Coach at Harvard Business School
- Board member & strategic partner in high-stakes leadership
Known by many as “The Nonprofit Prophet,” Matt is trusted for clear, candid counsel that helps leaders move fast with integrity. Author of Nonprofit Game Plan and The Nonprofit Prophet. He treats nonprofits with the rigor of top-performing businesses: clear strategy, disciplined execution, and strong financial stewardship (budgets, cash flow, reserves, controls, dashboards, unit economics).
Where Matt’s counsel is strongest
Leadership & culture
Executive self-awareness, clear communication, healthy team dynamics that sustain growth.
Board alignment & governance
Roles, decision rights, and accountability so leadership and board row in the same direction.
Strategy & operating model
Set direction, make tradeoffs, design how work gets done, and measure what matters.
Operator-grade execution
Annual planning, prioritization, and the day-to-day choices that turn strategy into results.
Funding strategy (without awkwardness)
Major donors, corporate partnerships, and storytelling that moves stakeholders.
Finance & stewardship
Budgeting and forecasting, cash flow and reserves policy, internal controls, audit readiness, grant compliance, and earned-revenue discipline.