Fractional Executive

Interim Executive Director

🏛️ Interim Executive Director

Stabilize your mission. Strengthen your team. Prepare for what’s next.

Your Leadership Seat Is Vacant—but the Work Can’t Pause.

The departure of an Executive Director can feel like a crisis. Funders need reassurance. The team needs leadership. The board needs alignment. And programs must keep moving forward.

That’s where an Interim Executive Director steps in.

Your Interim ED Partner

Dr. Jazzmine Nolan-Echols is a seasoned nonprofit executive who brings calm, continuity, and clarity to the transition process—keeping your organization focused, accountable, and future-ready.

We help organizations:

Maintain board, team, and funder confidence
Lead day-to-day operations during executive gaps
Improve systems, structure, and staff morale
Support board readiness for the next permanent leader
Manage transitions without losing momentum

🔁 The C.O.R.E. Framework for Transitional Leadership

Our 4-phase model ensures your organization is stabilized, strengthened, and positioned to welcome its next ED with confidence:

Phase

1. C – Clarify Priorities & Stabilize the Team

Assess organizational health, board needs, and staff readiness for the first 90 Days

2. O – Optimize Internal Operations

Strengthen systems, communication, finances, and culture for the second 90 Days

3. R – Rebuild Trust & Readiness

Reconnect with funders, realign with mission, and support board transitions for the third 90 Days

4. E – Exit with Legacy & Launch Plan

Prepare the organization for a smooth ED handoff for the fourth 90 Days

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💼 Engagement Options & Pricing

Choose the model that supports your organization’s scale and urgency:

✔️ Done-With-You – $7,500/month

Part-time Interim ED leadership (up to 10–15 hours/week)
Weekly board and leadership team strategy check-ins
Operational systems review and project stabilization
Staff management and morale support

✔️ Done-For-You – $15,000/month

Full Interim ED leadership (up to 25–30 hours/week)
Board liaison, funder engagement, and team leadership
Audit and repair of policies, communications, and workflows
Transition and succession planning support

🌱 What You’ll Gain

Leadership confidence during a critical transition
Operational continuity without overburdening staff
Board-aligned strategy and communications
Strengthened foundation for your next permanent ED
Peace of mind during an otherwise uncertain season

🗣️ Words from the Field

“We weren’t sure how to navigate the gap between Executive Directors, but within weeks of stepping in, our Dr. Nolan-Echols brought calm, clarity, and real leadership to our team and funders.”
— Board Chair, Youth Development Nonprofit

✅ Ready to Stabilize and Move Forward?

An Interim ED isn’t just a placeholder—it’s a strategic bridge to your organization’s next chapter.

👉 Schedule Your Call Now
Let’s build a customized plan for your leadership transition.

🧩 Why Choose an Interim Executive Director?

Avoid burnout on your board or senior staff
Ensure funders stay engaged and informed
Assess what your organization truly needs in its next leader
Build capacity, not just cover the gap

Let’s steward your mission forward—with professionalism, heart, and strategic stability.

👉 Schedule Your Call Now

Let’s talk now!

Representation is Not a Race Thing, it’s Business

It’s important that we start seeing all versions, sizes, backgrounds, starts and finishes of business portrayed in the media. Not just the crisis around why they don’t perform, but the inner workings, operations, finances, performance, partnerships, trials and tribulations that make all of today’s brands and business possible.

It’s time that we start seeing stories unfold before us that impact the business ecosystem everywhere for generations to come before its demise. Publishing articles about the announcements of founders and entrepreneurs making 7 figures, startups getting funded, or even underprivileged executives “making it” is not what I’m referring to. I’m referring to the same interviews that created the legacy of 60 Minutes with a strong concentration on the facts, data, details and cross referencing research of business as it applies to every perspective.

It’s important that business in the media starts reflecting leadership outside of Corporate America as it is those companies’ partners, contractors, vendors, suppliers etc that make the Fortune 500-1000 possible. We want to know about their company projects, their business activities, their performance, their government perspectives, their finances and yes a little bit of their drama. .

Let’s talk now!

JMNE Media

I designed JMNE Media as a way to give everyday business and entrepreneurs next door the respect they are due. In the subsidiary companies of JMNE Media business stories will be told via the lenses of management, operations, finance, government, best practices, ethics, policies and procedures, as well as philanthropy.

It wouldn’t be a company of mine if I didn’t apply the #JazzMethod, therefore the interviews with businesses will hold owners, founders and entrepreneurs accountable to their contributions to their employees and communities beyond earnings. JMNE Media will make room for professionals, business owners and entrepreneurs at all stages of development in order to tell the full story, not just the announcement, crisis or the drama of the company.

Now we will have a point of reference for HOW ALL BUSINESS is done.

Learn more about JMNE Media.

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