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Chitra Aiyar

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Chitra Aiyar is a former nonprofit executive director who coordinated a two-year initiative on healthy leadership transitions at Robert Sterling Clark’s NetLab Incubator. She is also a Public Voices Fellow at the OpEd Project.

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Could Term Limits for Nonprofit Leaders Ease the Burnout Crisis?

Instituting fixed terms for executive directors would allow them to focus on their jobs, then exit before exhaustion sets in.