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The New Executive's First Year
A month-by-month guide to a new association executive director's first year, written by two former chairs and CEOs.
Walter Abernathy
Chief Executive Officer, NANA
Gordon Ashcombe
Immediate Past Chair, Society of Rural Hospital Administrators
4 min read
NANA CEO Walter Abernathy and Immediate Past Chair Gordon Ashcombe — Abernathy leading NANA since 2017 after a decade running a regional trade association, Ashcombe as CEO of the Society of Rural Hospital Administrators — wrote this guide from their own first-year notes rather than a generic transition-planning template.
Organized month by month across a new executive's first year, the guide covers what to leave alone before you understand it, when to make your first staffing decision, how to read a board's real expectations rather than its stated ones, and how to build a working relationship with a board chair you didn't choose and who didn't choose you. It's built as a companion to NANA's executive-track course of the same name.
Published by NANA's research team as part of the guide series.
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