“Barbara brings tremendous passion and joy to her work, wonderful qualities in a leader. What she needed and what I could give her was an understanding of what it takes to be an executive director. When she started she thought she could hire people to do what she couldn’t. I think I was most helpful in convincing her that it wasn’t enough to hire someone to do the books or raise funds. She had to know how to read a financial sheet and understand what’s involved in fundraising to determine whether her employees were doing a good job.” Ruth Slaughter