Building a Stronger Board: Board Versus Management Responsibilities - 1 attendee
Admission
- $50.00
Description
Wednesday, February 16, 2022
Board Versus Management Responsibilities: Navigating the Grey Area
12:00pm - 1:30pm
ZOOM Webinar: $50 for 1 attendee
About this session: By design, the board of directors and the chief executive of a nonprofit organization share leadership of the organization. This diffuse leadership structure builds both accountability and sustainability into the leadership model of nonprofits, but sometimes these roles overlap too. So much so, in fact, that it is not uncommon for there to be confusion, tension, and differences in opinion about the appropriate lines of responsibility between the board of directors and the chief executive. In this session, we’ll explore the line of responsibility between CEO and board and provide insights on maintaining a healthy balance.
After this session you will be able to answer these questions with confidence and bring this learning directly to your organization to increase its impact potential.
1. What is the board’s role?
2. What is management’s role?
3. When there is a grey area, who decides? And how?
4. What does a healthy relationship between board and Executive Director look like?
Who Should Participate: Organization leadership and board members are encouraged to attend as a team!
About the Presenter: Robert B. Acton, JD; Founder & CEO, Cause Strategy Partners, BoardLead, and BoardLearn
Rob Acton is the founder and CEO of Cause Strategy Partners, a consulting social enterprise that has placed, trained and supported more than 1,400 professionals across the United States and the United Kingdom for nonprofit board service. The firm has accomplished this through partnerships with global professional service firms and Fortune 500 companies like JPMorgan Chase, Google, PwC, LinkedIn, Mastercard, United Airlines, and many others. The firm’s client list also includes private foundations, including The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, The Chicago Community Trust, and The New York Community Trust.
Rob has nearly three decades of experience founding, leading and scaling social good organizations as both a nonprofit chief executive and board leader. He served for 11 years as executive director of two nonprofit organizations: Taproot Foundation in New York City and Cabrini Green Legal Aid (CGLA) in Chicago. Under Rob’s leadership, CGLA received the prestigious Alford-Axelson Award for Nonprofit Managerial Excellence.
Rob is a recognized expert on nonprofit governance and presents regularly at Fortune 500 companies and professional services firms, as well as at nonprofit and philanthropic convenings. He has served on numerous boards of directors, advisory boards and governmental commissions over the years. Rob currently serves as co-chair of the board of directors of Broadway Inspirational Voices, and as vice chair of the board of directors of Nonprofit New York. Rob is also a member of the advisory boards of Cabrini Green Legal Aid and Parkes Philanthropy.
Rob is a member of the Bar of the State of New York. He attended Michigan public schools, Spring Arbor University & Brooklyn Law School. Rob’s causes: second chances for ex-offenders, nonprofit capacity building and the performing arts.
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