Stephanie welcomes Kay Linder, Partner with ThinkingAhead's Nonprofit Leadership Search, covering ground including the many hats a true recruiter must wear, the importance of planting the seeds of confidence, trust, transparency, and collaboration, using your head, heart, and gut together, and what being "fearless" really means.Discover what sets ThinkingAhead apart, hear stories from recruiters, and browse opportunities by clicking here.
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Welcome to the Talent Trade. I am your host, Stephanie Moss, partner with Thinking Ahead Executive Search. Today, I am super excited to have one of the absolute best and brightest that Thinking Ahead has certainly ever had and probably the industry as a whole. Please give a very warm welcome to Kay Linder. It's my pleasure, Stephanie.
So tell us a little bit of your background with Thinking Ahead and then love to launch into talking about what's on your mind. Fantastic.
So I've actually been with the organization 26 plus years, which is shocking to some, but not to me because Thinking Ahead is such a special place to work. The collegiality, the collaboration, the ability to have a lot of autonomy in your own business, and just to work with the best and brightest people that are part of our industry is just a very compelling reason for me staying.
I'm a partner in our nonprofit practice, and so I work nationally and sometimes internationally as well. with nonprofit organizations. And most of the work I do is with environmental climate and also with zoos, aquariums, and science museums. So a lot of ground to cover, but lots of fun.
Okay. So Kate, obviously you have had a long and dedicated career as an executive recruiter. Tell me a little bit more about why the recruitment profession?
Great question. So I am self-admittedly a very ADD personality. I'm one of those people that in college could have had like 15 majors. I was lucky to have one just to settle in and figure out what I wanted to do because I was always curious and everything seemed interesting to me. And that's been a lifelong part of my personality.
So working with thinking ahead, I've been given the opportunity to transition the work that I do and my emphasis throughout my career. As market trends emerge, as my interests move in new directions, I've been able to follow that dream with confidence. you know, the guidance of our wonderful president, Greg Boucher.
And as I mentioned earlier, we have such a high level of wonderful people at our organization, from smarts to senses of humor to high, high, high ethics. Again, also lots of passion for the work we do. And one of the things that I think sets us apart is none of us are transactional people. In our approaches, we seek long-term relationships internally and externally.
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