Executive Director: Empowering your Board
Executive Director:
Empowering your Board
The relationship between the board and the executive director is critical to organizational success. Keeping your board focused on governance and out of operations is a key challenge that can strain this relationship. If you can effectively educate and engage your board members to set direction versus manage operations, you can lead your board to govern.
Learning Outcomes:
By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:
- Educate the board on their governance role.
- Develop tactics to assist the board in setting direction vs. managing operations.
- Demonstrate seven daily tasks to effectively lead leaders.
Suggested Participants:
Executive directors or equivalent role (CEO, Managing Director).
Workshop Benefits:
Through our Executive Director: Empowering Your Board workshop, you will develop:
- Better relationships with your board members.
- An educated board that focuses on their role and respects yours as executive director.
Facilitator
Gerald (Gerry) Dragomir FCPA, FCMA ChPC
Gerry has been alternately described by his clients as ‘not like an accountant at all’ or ‘an accountant that I can understand’. Gerry is the senior partner at a public accounting firm that primarily serves the NPO sector. He established the firm over 35 years ago. Gerry’s passion is performance and to feed that passion Gerry has an executive coaching designation, a professional sport coaching designation and is a certified Gallup Strengths coach. Gerry works with award winning people at the highest level all both realms. A proponent of the theory that one can never know enough, Gerry is in the final year of a Masters program in High Performance Coaching at UBC on his way to a very belated doctorate.