Board Fundamentals: Succession and Recruitment
Board Fundamentals: Succession and Recruitment
To maintain a committed team of qualified directors is one of the board’s biggest challenges.
In this workshop, you will learn to move beyond recruiting the average applicant by creating a strategic framework to identify, recruit, engage, and develop the talents of current and future board members.
Learning Outcomes:
By the end of this session you will be able to:
- Identify board member competencies and attributes required for an organization to succeed
- Recognize the importance of diversity in building an effective board
- Develop processes to recruit, onboard, and develop board members
Suggested Participants:
Board members, Board Chairs, and Executive Directors/CEOs who are looking to create or improve the succession and recruitment plans for their board.
Workshop Benefits:
- Insights from the experiences and approaches of other non-profit leaders
- A refresher on why succession plans are important
- Catch up on current onboarding practices in the sector
Facilitator
Nancy More
Nancy More had a long career focused on supply and general management in the global brewing industry. During her career Nancy worked in progressively more senior management positions across Canada for Labatt Brewing Company before moving into the global business with the parent company Interbrew SA. Her interest in international business development led her to join Diageo (Guinness) headquartered in London. While beer was the business focus, her attention was on development of local leadership and businesses.
Nancy’s experience in developing countries and living and working in different cultures has encouraged a passion about the challenges of creating sustainable change through leadership particularly in cross-cultural circumstances.
After she returned to Canada, she wanted to use her skills to contribute to the not-for-profit sector. She has been serving as a Vantage Point Knowledge Philanthropist for over a decade.
Her experience as a board director has included the Sea Kayak Association of BC, the Vancouver Fringe Theatre Society, the Nuxalk Nation Economic Development Corporation, Academics without Borders, and Vantage Point. She served as Board Chair for Academics without Borders and Vantage Point.