A few years ago a really bright and thoughtful superintendent almost 18 months into her first superintendency reached out to me for help. In our...
4 Board-Savvy Superintendents on Preparing Superintendent-Aspirants to Take the Helm
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Doug Eadie
4 Board-Savvy 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...
Nathan Ohle Puts Stakeholder Relations Front and Center in Taking the Helm at IEDC
Building and maintaining close, positive, productive, and enduring working relationships with key internal and external stakeholders is now widely...
Superintendent Leadership on the Governance Front: An Emerging New Model
Over the course of my 35-plus years working with superintendents and their school boards, I’ve conducted hundreds of one-on-one interviews with...
CEO Leadership on the Governance Front: Reflections on an Emerging New Model
This is how the chief executive officer of a large, urban public transit system responded to my question about engaging his board in the annual...
CEO Leadership on the Governance Front: Reflections on an Emerging New Model
This is how the chief executive officer of a large, urban public transit system responded to my question about engaging his board in the annual...
Creating Board Development Champions
You might recall that a year or so ago, we posted two articles on the subject of board capacity building – what is popularly known as board...
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...
2 Powerful Board Development Vehicles: a Hot Topic at my 2022 NCE Workshop
“The Superintendent as Board-Developer-in-Chief” was one of the five presentation/discussion modules in the pre-conference workshop I presented on...
Board Chair Development Is a Fine Art at Tupelo’s Community Development Foundation
The landscape of nonprofit/public governance has changed dramatically in recent years. In my travels around the country these days, I’m...