American Diabetes Association reviews

The upper management, including the CEO and her “inner circle”, will unfortunately bring this great association down unless there is a change. The self-centered CEO had no nonprofit experience when she was hired. She never seems to communicate a plan to the field to give everyone direction. Instead, she sings and dances “happy birthday” to employees she hasn’t took the time to meet and has everyone do the ADA (Wal Mart) cheer.

- Salaries are not competitive and raises (even small cost of living adjustments) do not happen. Ever. - Any form of staff appreciation is extremely rare. - Retirement takes too long to be vested and PTO accrual doesn't increase, leading to no increase in total compensation to make up for stagnant pay. - Upper management (non-executive) is in place largely because they stuck around the longest, not because they are the most qualified leaders. The result is dysfunctional and toxic. - Executive leadership promises a lot and never follows through on anything. Instead you will do cheers at all-staff meetings. - Constant cycle of reorganization and layoffs. No stability or consistency. - Departing staff are regularly not replaced, taxing the ones left behind. - Most information is disseminated through gossip only, rather than official organization-wide communication.