Thursday, September 24, 2026
12:30-1:30 pm ET
Virtual Webinar: 60 minutes
This virtual Town Hall is an exclusive benefit for WOC members.
The executive search landscape is evolving. What are search professionals seeing, and what are women experiencing?
Building on the powerful In Search of Success conversation at WOC’s June Symposium, WOC launches its new Executive Search Initiative with a virtual Town Hall designed to bring the perspectives of leading executive search professionals into direct conversation with the experiences and questions of our community.
Hear directly from search professionals as they share timely perspectives on what they’re seeing across executive search and how the talent landscape is changing. Then, the conversation opens to you, with an opportunity to ask questions, share your own experiences and bring forward issues that deserve greater attention.
This is more than a conversation about navigating executive search. It is an opportunity to contribute to a broader dialogue about the field and what its future could look like.
Join us on September 24. Bring your questions, share your perspective, and be part of the conversation.
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Speakers
Kim Farr, CFRE
Senior Associate and Search Consultant,
Aspen Leadership Group
Kim Farr serves as a Senior Associate and Search Consultant with Aspen Leadership Group, where she develops outreach strategies to build and refine candidate pools and establishes enduring relationships with ALG candidates in the process.
Kim has worked in the field of advancement for more than 20 years. Her expertise includes annual giving, prospect research management and analysis, stewardship, and development writing. Most recently she served as development officer for foundation relations at Clark Atlanta University, a historically Black institution and the nation’s first to award graduate degrees to African Americans.
Kim has worked on multiple fundraising campaigns throughout her time in philanthropy. At Year Up as Manager of Institutional Giving, her work with foundation donors generated most of the dollars raised in excess of the $5.25M campaign goal and expanded the program by fifty percent. As the Senior Research Analyst at Spelman College, she led the prospect research team that completed the groundwork for the College’s historic, $157M campaign, which tripled financial support for students, increased investment in faculty and academic programs, and provided capital improvements to campus infrastructure.
Kim has also served as Director of Annual Programs at Grady Health Foundation and Director of Research & Grants at EARTH University Foundation. Her career began at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, CA as manager of the annual fund calling program.
Prior to her time as a development officer, Kim spent a decade working in advancement operations. She began doing prospect research at Georgia State University and continued working in the research discipline in various capacities throughout her career. Kim served three terms on the board of the Georgia Chapter of the Association of Professional Researchers for Advancement (APRA-GA), and a single term as a member of the Ethics Committee at APRA International.
Kim has earned the Certified Fund Raising Executive (CFRE) credential. She remains active in the profession through her memberships with the Association for Fundraising Professionals (AFP), African American Development Officers (AADO) Network and the National Association of Charitable Gift Planners. She is a graduate of Leadership Clayton, the United Way of Greater Atlanta Volunteer Involvement Program and a member of the Junior League of Atlanta.
Kim holds a B.S. in Interdisciplinary Studies from Tennessee State University and an M.B.A. from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Esther Rosenberg
Co-Managing Director, Howe-Lewis International
Esther is a co-owner of the firm. She joined HLI in 1992. She has conducted searches for local, national and global health, education, human services, advocacy, cultural and community-based organizations.
Her earlier experience includes five years in executive search at Korn/Ferry as well as significant roles in not-for-profit management with the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation, where she managed five regional offices nationwide; the Metropolitan Opera, where she worked on the Centennial Campaign; and Case Western Reserve University, as a grant proposal writer and project administrator. While there, she directed a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute on Gerontology.
Originally from Cleveland, Ohio, Esther attended the American University of Paris and received both a BA and an MA in French from Case Western Reserve University.
She is active with a number of nonprofit organizations, including Women in Development New York and the Network of Nonprofit Search Consultants.
Wendy Wilsker
Managing Partner,
Boyden
Wendy Wilsker has dedicated her entire career to the non-profit sector, serving in leadership roles within charitable organizations and working alongside them as an executive recruiter and consultant. She excels at identifying the unique challenges and opportunities non-profits face, and partners with senior leadership to build successful organizational structures, teams and advancement programs.