Interim Executive Solutions, LLC
Barbra Kavanaugh is a seasoned professional in nonprofit leadership and management, currently serving as a Partner at Interim Executive Solutions, LLC since January 2024. Previously, Kavanaugh offered interim executive director services as a self-employed consultant from August 2015 to November 2024, and co-founded the Interim Executive Network, holding the position of Director from March 2017 to January 2024. Kavanaugh also worked as a Senior Consultant at Brighter Strategies, LLC, focusing on nonprofit management and organizational development from April 2019 to January 2023. Prior experience includes serving as Executive Director at the Employment Justice Center, where management of a diverse team was key to delivering high-quality advocacy and community lawyering programs from January 2011 to January 2015. Kavanaugh holds a Juris Doctorate from the University at Buffalo School of Law, with a focus on negotiation and civil litigation, and a Bachelor of Science in Communications from Seton Hall University.
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Interim Executive Solutions, LLC
Interim Executive Solutions provides experienced leaders to work with non-profit organizations in transition. Engagements range from taking on the role of Interim Executive Director to filling other leadership roles on a temporary basis in order to build organizational capacity, address operational issues or implement new programs. Regardless of the assignment, our professionals work with the board and staff to: - Stabilize the organization and ensure it is able to pursue its mission, - Assess and begin to address the challenges and opportunities facing the organization, and - Provide recommendations regarding a path forward, including the qualities that would be ideal in any permanent staff to be hired. Through our network of over 30 practitioners we are able to ensure a cultural and experiential fit between the interim executives we recommend for each assignment and our prospective clients. Moreover, our professionals have access to the collective knowledge and experience of the other professionals in our network. In most cases we are also able to work within existing budgets by adapting the onsite time commitment of our interim executives to meet the needs and constraints of the client organization. Besides our interim leadership services, IES provides support for strategic visioning, transition planning, business assessment and more.