DURHAM — The Leadership Triangle has got a new executive director.
On Tuesday, the nonprofit named Kristine Sloan to the role, succeeding Jesica Averhart who has stepped down and will now join the organization’s Board of Directors.
Established in 1992, Leadership Triangle is a non-profit organization that aims to build leadership capacity and promote regionalism across the separate communities of the Triangle.
“Kristine is the perfect leader at the perfect time. With so many changes happening globally and here in the Triangle, great leaders are going to be in high demand,” said Michael Goodmon, the Leadership Triangle’s board chair and senior vice president of Capitol Broadcasting Company, the parent company of WRAL TechWire. “We have one in Kristine Sloan and her work is going to produce many more talented, engaged leaders for our community.”
A Triangle native, Kristine is the former CEO of StartingBloc, a global leadership development nonprofit supporting 3200-plus entrepreneurs, activists, organizational leaders and organizers in amplifying their impact. Through StartingBloc, she worked with corporations like Facebook, Red Bull, and the American Heart Association to develop and nurture their talent.
Prior to StartingBloc, she led a multimillion-dollar grant project in Burundi for All Across Africa, designed cross-cultural programming for NC State University, worked on water advocacy rights with indigenous populations in South India and co-founded a social enterprise in West Africa.
She holds three degrees from NC State University, including a master’s degree in International Studies with a specialization in Rural Development.q
