In November 2022, the Board of Directors of the transit authority serving the residents of Kalamazoo, Michigan – METRO – took two critical steps...
Board Ownership Powers Kalamazoo METRO’s Board Capacity Building Initiative
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Board Capacity Building
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...
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...
For CEO Eyes Only: 5 Critical Keys to Cementing the Partnership With Your Board
Dear chief executive colleagues, you’re well advised to make building and maintaining a close, positive, productive, and enduring partnership with...
Making Board Capacity Building a Fine Art at ACCE
I opened my first one-on-one coaching session with a new chief executive client a couple of months ago by asking him to...
Bringing New Board Members On Board – the Right Way
The GM, along with his top five executives, made sure the two incoming board members, neither of whom had been involved with public transportation...
Training a Weak Tool for Boosting Board Performance
In his column in the January 1, 2021 issue of the New York Times, “We Just Saw How Minds Aren’t Changed,” David Brooks observes that our society's...
Leaving Administrators Out of the Governance Improvement Loop a Costly Mistake
Mea Culpa! One of the more egregious errors I made early in my career as a K-12 governance consultant and coach was allowing myself to be pressured...
3 Quick Fixes That Won’t Corral the Rogues on Your Board
I've met more than a few "rogue" school board members over the course of my 35 years as a governance advisor. I define these board members as...
Ownership: the Fuel that Powers Significant Board Change
Let’s begin with a sad and all-too-familiar true tale of woe that a transit general manager recounted to me in one of our early coaching sessions. A...