Tim Wolfred, Psy.D., is a Senior Projects Director at CompassPoint Nonprofit Services.

Before founding the Executive Transitions program at CompassPoint in 1997, Tim served sixteen times as interim executive director of San Francisco Bay Area nonprofits.

Tim began his nonprofit career in 1971 as executive director of an Illinois child welfare agency. He was an early organizer of local and national responses to the AIDS epidemic as executive director of the San Francisco AIDS Foundation from 1985 to 1989.

He is coauthor of two seminal studies of nonprofit executive director tenure and experience, Daring to Lead (2001 with Jeanne Bell) and Daring to Lead 2006 (with Jeanne Bell and Richard Moyers). Both studies were published by CompassPoint.

He has also written two monographs in a series on executive transition issues published by the Annie E. Casey Foundation, Interim Executive Directors: The Power in the Middle and Building Leaderful Organizations: Succession Planning for Nonprofits.

With training partner Karen Gaskins Jones of JLH Associates, Tim created a three-day workshop for nonprofit consultants on the use of the transition model presented in this book. More than 200 consultants across the country have been through the training over the past five years.