The Nonprofit Executive Leadership Academy Program is a year-long leadership program for female nonprofit executives that includes networking with other nonprofit professionals, access to training and professional development on executive skills in social change leadership, and a chance to receive strategic support and coaching. This Take 5 series will allow us to get a closer look at our NELA Fellows as they offer insight into their experiences as Nonprofit Executives. Want to hear even more about the career journey of our fellows? Join us for our Social Change Career Series where our fellows and other nonprofit leaders share their career path to executive leadership as well as what inspires them to create social change. Visit http://sisgigroup.org/
Renee Flagler
Executive Director, Girls Inc. Long Island

One Word to Describe Your Takeaway From the NELA Leadership Institute 2017.
1. What is your leadership style?
2. What inspired you to participate in NELA?
3. What has been one learning, takeaway or "aha" from your experience so far as a NELA Fellow?
4. How do you believe NELA addresses issues pertaining to women and leadership in the nonprofit sector?
5. Do you have any advice for someone who is interested in one day being in an executive role in the nonprofit sector?
Renee Flagler
Renee Daniel Flagler is an award-winning writer, adjunct professor, and a speaker who is passionate about encouraging people, especially women and youth to pursue their passion and purpose. Renee is the Executive Director of Girls Inc. of Long Island, whose mission is to empower girls to be strong, smart and bold. Renee advocates for youth both in the United States and abroad. She is a founding board member and former Board Chair for LEAP (Literacy Empowerment Action Project) Global, an organization with a mission to provide innovative literacy, youth empowerment programming, and high school scholarships to students in Ghana, Africa.
Renee is a 2017 Nonprofit Executive Leadership Academy Fellow with the SISGI Group