Susannah Schaefer

Susannah Schaefer

Susannah Schaefer is CEO of Smile Train, where she oversees the charity’s mission and day-to-day operations. Reach her at sschaefer@smiletrain.org.

3 Key Practices for Evolving Nonprofit Management

Since I joined as CEO almost three years ago, Smile Train has revamped its brand, expanded staff significantly, taken steps to make key regions self-sustainable and reached the incredible milestone of transforming one million lives through cleft repair surgery. Along the way, there have been three key common underlying practices to our evolving management system: hiring hard workers, breaking down barriers and operating like a business...