Koya Partners' Alison Ranney is "remaking what leadership looks like across the country. ": In April 2015, Celena Roldan, then executive director of Erie Neighborhood House, attended an Economic Club of Chicago dinner. She had spent 15 years at the agency, which serves about 5,000 people a year, and was pondering her next career move. At the dinner, Roldan met Alison Ranney, managing director and Chicago office head of nonprofit-executive search firm Koya Partners. Two months later, Roldan found herself in Koya's offices, on the sixth floor of the Civic Opera Building, about to discuss her future with Ranney.