A growing number of really board-savvy chief executives around the country – among them school superintendents and the chief executives of state...
A Dynamic Board President-Executive Director Leadership Team at Work at MASA
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The MASA Aspiring Superintendents Academy Meets a Critical Need
The October 2 post at this blog describes a critical role of the superintendent: taking the initiative in building her school board’s governing...
Board Ownership Powers Kalamazoo METRO’s Board Capacity Building Initiative
In November 2022, the Board of Directors of the transit authority serving the residents of Kalamazoo, Michigan – METRO – took two critical steps...
WeGo Public Transit’s Steve Bland: A Consummate Board-Savvy CEO in Action
As you’ll learn from the video interview I recorded with Steve Bland, Chief Executive Officer of WeGo Public Transit in Nashville, Steve is a...
Pat Watson on Managing His Partnership with the Board at the Helm of the Bloomfield Hills Schools
It was great catching up via Zoom with my dear colleague Pat Watson this past Saturday morning. After 3 ½ years at the...
Lessons Jeff Finkle Learned at the Helm of IEDC About the Board-CEO Partnership
One of my most satisfying and fulfilling experiences as a nonprofit/public governance adviser over the past forty years...
Showing the Superintendent Search Committee How Board-Savvy You Are
I am seeing a rapidly growing number of school board members who expect their superintendent search committees to assess the board-savviness of...
Turning Board Members Into Champions for Board Capacity Building
One of the presentation/discussion modules in my four-hour workshop for participants in the Aspiring Superintendents Academy of the Minnesota...
CEO Key #5: Turn Your Board Members Into Satisfied Owners of Their Governing Work
The Board of METRO, the public transit authority serving metropolitan Kalamazoo, Michigan, held a tremendously consequential meeting in November...
Make Sure the Board-CEO Working Relationship is Meticulously Managed
The prior three posts in this series have taken a close look at strategies that public/nonprofit chief executives can employ to forge close and...