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MAG Announces Executive Transition

Dear MAG friends and colleagues,

On behalf of the Board of Directors and staff at the Management Assistance Group (MAG), I have important news to share regarding an executive leadership transition at MAG. Inca A. Mohamed, MAG’s current Executive Director, has decided to leave her position, and MAG’s Board of Directors has selected Robin Katcher to assume the leadership role as we embark on a new strategic direction.

Inca A. Mohamed Announces Her Departure

After 10 years of working at MAG and 7 years as Executive Director, Inca has decided to leave her role as Executive Director. Given her tremendous accomplishments and outstanding service to MAG’s mission and clients, we all greet this news with significant sadness. Yet we also understand that Inca’s recent work with justice-oriented youth development and philanthropic organizations has reignited her long-held passion for these areas, and she now feels called to contribute her extraordinary gifts there. While the Board and staff will truly miss Inca in her leadership role, she will continue to be affiliated with MAG as an Associate Consultant. We are thrilled that she will be available to provide organizational development assistance to our social justice clients as we move forward.

During her tenure, Inca skillfully led MAG through several significant transitions and boldly tackled the challenges faced by our individual clients, the social justice sector, the nonprofit organizational development field, and by MAG itself. Some of her many achievements include expanding the range of MAG’s services; investing in thought leadership on critical organizational development issues; and helping organizations manage the tension between advancing their goals and staying true to core social justice values.

Robin Katcher Named Managing Director

The Board of Directors is very excited to announce that Robin Katcher will be transitioning from Deputy Director to Managing Director as of April 1, 2011. With 12 years as consultant and 3 years as Deputy Director, Robin has been a national leader in strengthening progressive social change leaders, organizations, and networks. She brings deep experience in social justice movements, which informs her rigorous approach and powerful vision (see her recent Nonprofit Quarterly article “Unstill Waters: The Fluid Role of Networks in Social Movements”.) The Board is delighted that Robin accepted the Board’s invitation to lead MAG through its next pivotal organizational transition and is confident that she and the rest of the MAG team will continue MAG’s legacy of serving individual social justice organizations, contributing to the social justice sector, and advancing the practice of nonprofit organizational development.

MAG Explores New Strategic Direction

MAG’s clients are increasingly seeing that the systemic social change they are committed to requires more of their leadership, their organizations, and their capacity to connect across organizations and issue divides. Traditional organizational development approaches focused on individual organizations are necessary but insufficient to address these challenges. Under Robin’s leadership and in collaboration with Senior Consultant, Mark Leach, MAG looks forward to continuing its work with individual clients while developing new ways to support leaders and organizations navigating within and across networks and movements in order to build political power for change. Over the next year, MAG will also be examining models of shared leadership and refining our senior leadership structure so that it better aligns with and advances our new strategic direction. To learn more, please watch out for our upcoming e-newsletter.

We are excited about MAG’s future and thank you for your commitment and support of MAG and our social justice work. We look forward to continuing to work with and for you in the next phase of our evolution.

Sincerely,

Michael Lacour

Board Chair