Vice President for Search Management
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Vice President for Search Management

Email: [email protected]

Michael Vann leads Aspen Leadership Group’s search management team and its operations, serving as a partner to ALG clients and senior consultants to define search goals and launch outreach plans. He oversees a team of search consultants that works to continuously improve ALG’s candidate sourcing, as well as client and candidate support services, and his team is dedicated to fostering a culture of diversity, equity, and inclusion within ALG and in partnership with our clients and the individuals we serve.

Michael has more than two decades of experience managing relationships with trustees, philanthropists, senior executives, and development leaders in arts and social services organizations. He has devoted his career to building and supporting successful boards and leadership teams, enabling meaningful and enduring philanthropic contributions.

As Senior Director of NPR Foundation and Volunteer Relations, Michael oversaw stewardship, governance, cultivation, recruitment, communications, and trustee annual fund giving for the NPR Foundation, a 501(c)(3) organization committed to sustaining and expanding the base of support for National Public Radio. He served as a senior strategist on trustee relations, advising and supporting the President and Chair of the NPR Foundation. During his tenure at NPR, Michael was acknowledged for adding depth to the volunteer experience in order to further the institution’s philanthropic goals. Michael previously managed the Board of Directors of Whitman-Walker Clinic, one of the nation’s leading LGBTQ health care centers.

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Aspen Leadership Group (ALG) supports exceptional careers in philanthropy, recruiting presidents, executive directors, and chief advancement officers and helping them recruit, train, and inspire diverse, inclusive, and high-performing teams. Our search services and leader-to-leader consulting focus on building a team and a culture that enable an organization to engage all of its potential donors and volunteers and to drive unprecedented fundraising results.