Author Archive: Doug Eadie
Doug Eadie helps nonprofit and public CEOs become stronger leaders through his books, consulting, and speaking.
Turning Your Board Members Into a Cohesive Governing Team: Part 1
Teamwork in the abstract is neither here nor there for nonprofit and public boards. The only serious reason for developing your board’s teamwork is to help it function as a more effective governing body that gets its governing work done …
Get Your Board-CEO Retreat Right
Retreats have become a popular vehicle for involving nonprofit board members, their CEOs, and executives in accomplishing high-impact governing work that could not be accomplished – at least not as well – in regular board business meetings. Updating a vision …
CEO Dave Genova on Getting Stakeholder Engagement Right at RTD-Denver
You’ll recall that in earlier posts at this blog we’ve defined “stakeholders” as individuals, groups, and organizations it makes sense to build and maintain relationships with because something important is at stake, for example, political and financial support, credibility, image, …
CEO Suzanne McCormick on Getting the CEO-COO Partnership Right at United Way Suncoast
Experience has taught me that no matter how well-designed, the chief executive officer-chief operating officer leadership structure can easily fail. In fact, over my 30 years in the nonprofit leadership business I’ve seen many more CEO-COO duos crash and burn …
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 …
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