Author Archive: Doug Eadie
Doug Eadie helps nonprofit and public CEOs become stronger leaders through his books, consulting, and speaking.
CEO Joe Marinucci on Creating the Downtown Cleveland Alliance
In my experience, the nonprofits that thrive and grow over the long run are headed by chief executive officers who devote at least 75 percent of their time on the average to two critical functions: governance – developing and supporting …
Cementing the Partnership With Your Board
The following article appeared in the Spring 2018 edition of the Association Forum’s “CEOnly Newsletter.” It is reprinted here with the Forum’s permission.
Satisfied Owners Make Better Partners
Thirty years of working with nonprofit boards of all shapes and sizes …
CEO Rob Paterkiewicz on Updating Selected Independent Funeral Homes’ Business Model
I’m pleased to share the fourth podcast in this blog’s ongoing series on updating nonprofit business models, featuring Rob Paterkiewicz, Executive Director and CEO of Selected Independent Funeral Homes, a national trade association. You’ll recall that the May 18 post …
Nonprofit Business Models Redux
Updating nonprofit business models has been a major theme of this blog, with posts featuring podcasts by Richard Browdie, CEO of the Benjamin Rose Institute on Aging (November 13, 2017: https://extraordinaryceo.com/involving-board-strategic-organizational-development/); Rick Homans, CEO of the Tampa Bay Partnership, …
Three Seasoned, Board-Savvy Leaders Talk About the Board Chair-CEO Partnership
I don’t know three more board-savvy nonprofit leaders than Ronnie Bryant, President & CEO of the Charlotte Regional Partnership, Jeff Finkle, President/CEO of the International Economic Development Council, and Michael Langley, Chief Executive Officer of the Minneapolis Saint Paul Regional …
What Are You Paying Your Board Chair?
A few years ago, I was chatting over lunch with the CEO of a national association about her incoming board chair. She was feeling pretty apprehensive since her relationship with the outgoing chair had been really rocky. He’d resisted her …
The Miami Lighthouse: An Innovation Engine on CEO Virginia Jacko’s Watch
Virginia Jacko and I tell her incredible true story in our book The Blind Visionary (www.GovernanceEdge.com): losing her eyesight while serving as a senior financial executive at Purdue University; starting all over as a vocational rehabilitation student at …
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 that requires highly knowledgeable, skilled – and often, well-connected – volunteers includes providing technical advice in program …
Really Board-Savvy CEOs Avoid the Trap of Letterhead Board Members
Several posts at this blog have dealt with what I call “insidious foes” of a solid board-CEO working relationship. These are erroneous assumptions about the nature of the governing function that can cause real damage. What makes them insidious is …
Setting the Stage for a Podcast Featuring 3 CEOs Who Examine the Board Chair-CEO Partnership
I’m delighted to report that three extraordinary CEOs who have been actively engaged in this blog’s CEO Advisory Committee are scheduled to record a podcast for www.extraordinaryceo.com, sharing their experience in building a productive and enduring board chair-CEO partnership. …
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