I’ve never come across a transit CEO who wasn’t pretty much an expert in the art of annual budget preparation by the time she first takes the helm...
Making the Annual Budget Preparation Process an Innovation Engine
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Board Savvy Transit CEO Blog Archive
Proven techniques for developing rock-solid board-CEO partnerships
Joanna M. Pinkerton Leads a Panel Discussion on “Building a Solid Board-CEO Partnership”
I’m pleased to share the new video interview that our colleague Joanna M. Pinkerton, President/CEO of the Central Ohio Transit Authority (COTA),...
A Rock-Solid Board President-CEO Leadership Team at Work at GCRTA
In the video interview we recently recorded, Rev. Charles Lucas, Board President, and India Birdsong, General...
Beware of the Emperor’s New Clothes Syndrome
“You’re pretty obviously over your head and can’t really understand what we’re doing. Instead of getting people riled up, why don’t you get...
How Transit CEO-Aspirants Can Demonstrate Board-Savviness to Search Committees
A major ongoing theme of www.boardsavvytransitceo.com has been preparing executive team members who are what we call CEO-aspirants to build...
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...
SEPTA’s Leslie Richards: Passionate Out of the Box Innovator-in-Chief
What I call “out of the box” innovation is the road less traveled for many if not most public and nonprofit organizations for a number reasons. Out...
4 Board-Savvy Transit CEOs Discuss Preparing CEO-Aspirants to Take the Helm
When CEO-aspirants take the helm of a transit authority, among the stiffest challenges they face is building a solid partnership with their new...
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...
Board Spear Carriers: Committees Protect the CEO’s Line of Credit
Over the course of my 30-plus years of work with public transit boards and their CEOs, I’ve learned that executives aspiring to take the helm of a...
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Doug Eadie’s professional passion and his company’s mission are to empower public and nonprofit organizations by building governing board capacity and developing rock-solid board chief executive partnerships. A nationally prominent organizational developer par excellence, Doug specializes in building the governing capacity of public school districts, public transit authorities, and economic development corporations.