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NAD Announces CEO Profile and Deadline

The National Association of the Deaf (NAD) calls for candidates for a
visionary Chief Executive Officer (CEO) who will lead broad advocacy
efforts covering the breadth of a lifetime and impacting future
generations in areas such as early intervention, education, employment,
health care, technology, telecommunications, and youth leadership.

The NAD CEO Search Committee (CSC) has developed a CEO profile and
position announcement with input from Deaf America on the character,
skills, experience, and educational background for the next chief
executive of the NAD. More than 80 delegates representing four NAD regions
submitted input during caucuses at the National Leadership Training
Conference held October 28-31, 2009 in Columbus, Ohio. Click here to view
vlog: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acgQC7qHkJY.

“The feedback provided by grassroots members was terrific and very helpful
as we developed the CEO profile and position announcement,” said CSC Chair
Kirsten Poston. “We got a clear feel for the type of leader that members
want for the NAD. The challenge now is to find prospective applicants who
meet this profile and have the vision to take the NAD to greater heights.”

Current CEO Nancy J. Bloch, appointed in 1992 as the first female
executive director, will depart by March 31, 2011. The CSC was formed by
the Board of Directors in the fall of 2009 to facilitate the search
effort, which will screen candidates and recommend finalists to be
considered by the Board as the next CEO of the NAD.

The NAD encourages community participation in the CEO search effort. “We
invite Deaf America to help spread word that the CEO search is happening
via email, blogs, as well as Facebook, Twitter and other social media
outlets,” said NAD President Bobbie Beth Scoggins. “We also encourage Deaf
America to recommend names of prospective candidates.”

Names of prospective candidates can be submitted to CSC Chair Kirsten
Poston at csc@nad.org. Interested persons should review the CEO profile
and position announcement for instructions on submission of applicant
materials no later than Monday, March 1, 2010.

About the CSC
Follow the CEO search! Get updates via Twitter at @NADtweets or visit
www.nad.org/ceosearch for public announcements and captioned vlogs as well
as CSC member bios, search timeline, notices of public meetings,
announcements and other important information.

About the NAD
The National Association of the Deaf (NAD) was established in 1880 by deaf
leaders who believed in the right of the American deaf community to use
sign language, to congregate on issues important to them, and to have its
interests represented at the national level. These beliefs remain true to
this day, with American Sign Language as a core value. As a nonprofit
federation, the mission of the NAD is to preserve, protect, and promote
the civil, human, and linguistic rights of deaf and hard of hearing
individuals in the United States of America. The advocacy scope of the NAD
is broad, covering the breadth of a lifetime and impacting future
generations in the areas of early intervention, education, employment,
health care, technology, telecommunications, youth leadership, and more.

(DeafDigest editor’s note: very difficult, even extremely so,
to find someone that can duplicate the efforts of the late
Frederick C. Schreiber, the NAD Executive Director during
the sixties and seventies, who had this Midas touch, pouring
millions of dollars in grants and contracts into the
NAD coffers. The dream he had, before he passed away in
1979 was to consolidate all the national deaf agencies and
organizations into a single entity; it was called the
Mutual Alliance Plan)