Neil nicoll ymca bio
Neil Nicoll, President and CEO of Y-USA, attended both panel meetings and contributed an essay to the Principled Pluralism report....
Neil Nicoll is the current President & CEO of the YMCA.
National YMCA chooses Seattle branch leader as CEO
It wasn't just that Neil Nicoll could manage a large, complex organization like the YMCA of Greater Seattle that led the national YMCA to choose him Monday as its new leader.
It was also the kind of work that the Seattle YMCA was doing with kids and on issues like obesity.
"We were not just looking for a manager," said Dan Casey, chair of the YMCA's national board.
"It is that he simply 'gets it' in terms of our mission."
Nicoll, 59, has been president of the Seattle YMCA, which has 1,600 employees, for the past 14 years.
As the new CEO of the national YMCA, he will take over one of the nation's top community-based nonprofits.
The organization has 2,500 branches, 26,000 employees and $5 billion in annual revenues.
During the six-month search for a new CE0, Casey said the Chicago-based national YMCA was swayed by the impressive work Nicoll's had overseen in Seattle.
There are two YMCA staffers at five Seattle public middle sch