Virginia Jacko was a highly successful senior financial executive at Purdue University when she was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa-in her case, she would go completely blind. The Blind Visionary tells Virginia's true, inspiring journey-from having to start over in life as a vocational rehabilitation student at the Miami Lighthouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired to becoming the Lighthouse's president and CEO just four years later. One of only a handful of blind chief executives in the country, Virginia became an outstanding chief executive, doubling the Lighthouse's revenues and dramatically diversifying its program offerings. The coauthors discuss in the closing chapter four practical lessons, drawn from Virginia's odyssey, that will help readers find the courage to take action, create positive change, and live fully in the face of whatever challenges might come their way. This amazing success story will inspire you to overcome obstacles on your way to building a more satisfying personal and professional life.

In his path-breaking new book, "Leading Out-of-the-Box Change: The Chief Executive's Essential Guide to Achieving Nonprofit Innovation and Growth," leadership expert Doug Eadie draws from his quarter century of experience working with nonprofit and public leaders to provide a practical, thoroughly tested guide for leading the kind of out-of-the-box change that is critical to a nonprofit organization's long-range stability and growth. Doug describes the critical leadership role of the chief executive officer as Innovator-in-Chief and lays out the key elements of a powerful new change-planning tool that nonprofit leaders can apply to take command of out-of-the-box change: the Change Investment Portfolio Process. Doug also describes how to transform the organization's governing body into a strong advocate for - and committed owner of - out-of-the-box change initiatives. In the book's Postscript, the author also discusses the personal application of the Portfolio Process to build richer, more satisfying professional and personal lives. From the Foreword: "What makes Doug's book a particularly rich resource for non-profit and public leaders is its grounding in Doug's quarter century of hands-on work with an incredible range of organizations. Leading Out-of-the-Box Change is a real-life guidebook, for real-life leaders who are facing real-life challenges-not just another one of those collections of fascinating but untested theories." Christie A. Tarantino, CAE President & CEO Association Forum of Chicagoland