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Originally posted by 33girl
I would say CEO = National Prez, as far as most people's conceptions of a CEO and their role in their company.
Exec Director is like, I don't know, the office manager.
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True regarding CEO = Nat Prez, but as I said, I've also seen it applied to the ExecDirector on the logic that CEO is "Chief Executive Officer", the ExecDirector is the chief executive officer of the org, so thus "CEO = ExecDirector". Problem is in most corporations the CEO is also the President, and if they are separate positions the CEO is higher then the President. But in non-profit orgs the President is higher then the Exec. So calling the ExecDir the CEO makes it seem like they are higher then the elected president.
ExecDir is kind of like an office manager, but there is more to the position then that. They typically have certain responsibilities, more so then an office manager. They are considered professionals in the same way you have CPAs and the like.