Several posts at this blog have explored the various roles that highly successful nonprofit chief executive officers play – the functional “hats”...
IEDC’s Jeff Finkle: Chief Organizational Architect Extraordinaire
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Organizational Development
High-Level Volunteering at the Tampa Hillsborough EDC Isn’t Confined to Governing
As our readers well know, serving on a governing board is only one type of volunteering in a nonprofit organization. High-level non-governing work...
CEO Jeff Knueppel Walks the Employee Engagement Talk at SEPTA
Early in my career I experienced at close range a CEO not walking his talk. I was serving as chief of staff to the president of a large...
CEO Suzanne McCormick on Getting the CEO-COO Partnership Right at United Way Suncoast
Experience has taught me that no matter how well-designed, the chief executive officer-chief operating officer leadership structure can easily...
CEO Craig Richard On Beefing Up Investors’ ROI at the Tampa Hillsborough EDC
As our readers well know, serving on a governing board is only one type of volunteering in a nonprofit organization. High-level non-governing work...
The Chief of Staff Alternative To the CEO-COO Structure
The two most recent articles at this blog have explored the CEO-chief operating officer leadership structure, which has proved very effective in...
The CEO-COO Partnership: Thriving and Paying Big Dividends at Astor Services
In this new podcast, CEO Jim McGuirk and his Chief Operating Officer (COO), Renee Fillette, explain why the CEO-COO...
So You’re Thinking About Adding a Chief Operating Officer To Your Executive Team?
A two-person executive office consisting of a chief executive officer and chief operating officer (typically known as “COO”) is a staple in the...
Board Composition As a Conscious Growth Tool
I recently sat in on a special work session of the governance committee of the board of directors of a large and influential aging services...
Lana Vukovljak: Leading Large-Scale Innovation on the Volunteer Front
I was fortunate to work with Lana Vukovljak a few years ago when she was President & CEO of the American Association of Diabetes Educators,...