Beth Gazley, Indiana University–Bloomington School of Public and Environmental Affairs, spent 16 years in the public and private sector workforce before pursuing a PhD. She currently teaches nonprofit management at undergraduate, graduate, and executive levels. Her scholarship addresses many aspects of public and nonprofit management capacity, intersectoral and interorganizational relations, and nonprofit public policy.

Gazley has collaborated with the ASAE: The Center for Association Leadership and the ASAE Foundation on three prior studies: The Decision to Volunteer (2008) and The Decision to Give (2010), both with Monica Dignam, and What Makes High Performing Boards: Effective Governance Practices in Member-Serving Organizations (2013, with Ashley Bowers). She also co-edited a special issue of Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly on membership and mutual benefit associations, sponsored by the ASAE Foundation (2014, with Mary Tschirhart). Altogether Gazley has authored or co-authored more than 50 journal articles, op-eds, book chapters, reports, and other publications, many of which were written for practitioner audiences. Gazley is an active board member and has conducted workshops for numerous boards of directors. More at https://spea.indiana.edu/faculty-research/directory/index.html.

Katha Kissman is president and CEO of the Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute Foundation. In addition, she is a BoardSource senior governance consultant as well as an independent nonprofit organizational development consultant.

As one of the nation's leading specialists in interim leadership, she has provided organizations with a short- or long-term leadership bridge and organizational development consulting. As an interim, she has handled turnarounds and organizations in crisis as well as those seeking strategic leadership to move to the next level of organizational growth. Her interim engagements have included the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA), the National Flute Association, the Organization of American Historians, American Linguistic Society, the National Crime Prevention Council, and Hope For The Warriors. Previously, she served as national director, training and organizational development, for Volunteers of America, president and CEO of Leadership America, and managing director of the Round House Theatre. She was also on the founding teams of the American University of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates and the American University of Kuwait.

Kissman is the author of BoardSource's Taming the Troublesome Board Member and Trouble at the Top: The Nonprofit Board's Guide to Managing the Imperfect CEO. She can be contacted at www.kathakissman.com.