Advanced Board Consulting

Wednesday, Nov. 18 and Thursday, Nov. 19 | 8:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Michael Daigneault, Esq., Senior Governance Consultant, BoardSource
Cost: Members: $795 | Nonmembers: $875 Register

Get the skills and knowledge you need to help boards govern effectively in the current climate of uncertainty, and strengthen your capacity to help boards deal with conflict, work better and smarter, and think and plan strategically.

Overview

Consultants offering services to nonprofit boards need to share experiences with others engaged in similar work and to ponder challenging ideas about nonprofit leadership and organization dynamics. This training will focus on both key governance topics as well as the challenges faced by the individual as a governance consultant working with nonprofit organizations.

Among the topics covered in the program are:

• drivers of change in nonprofit governance
• emerging issues and trends
• dealing with conflict on boards
• how to help boards work better and smarter
• competencies of effective boards
• thinking and planning strategically
• how to help boards manage change
• ethics in governance
• strengthening one's own consulting skills

Course Objectives

The curriculum of this professional development program is designed to serve two purposes:

• to share insights and materials that BoardSource has developed during its work with hundreds of nonprofit boards and thousands of board and senior staff members
• to promote peer interaction and sharing of information and experience brought by participants.

Who Should Attend

Registration is limited. Attendance is recommended for:

• Consultants, trainers, management assistance providers, directors of training, or field staff from national organizations who offer their services to nonprofit boards AND have been serving this role for at least 5 years.
• Graduates of either BoardSource’s Critical Components of Effective Governance or BoardSource’s Assessment of Governing Boards and Chief Executives.

Approach

The course makes extensive use of case histories and small group work as well as group discussion. A binder of resource materials is included in the price of the course.

Registration also includes the following publications:

• Meet Smarter
• Chief Executive Succession Planning
• The Nonprofit Board's Guide to Bylaws
• Transforming Board Structure
• The Board Building Cycle

The registration fee includes continental breakfast and lunch.

Instructor

Michael Daigneault is a senior governance consultant for BoardSource. Michael is an experienced consultant and trainer. He is frequently asked to counsel nonprofit boards concerning vital governance challenges, and has particular experience working with nonprofit boards and chief executives on leadership, ethics, and strategic issues. Based in the Washington, DC area, Michael has worked with Independent Sector, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the Association of International Educators (NAFSA), the College of American Pathologists, the International Baccalaureate, NISH, the LAM Foundation, and many others.

Michael also works with BoardSource's corporate clients such as Time Warner and Target to develop cutting edge community involvement, philanthropic, and leadership development programs centered on the training of their executives and employees to more effectively sit on nonprofit boards.

In addition to his work with BoardSource, Michael is also a Senior Fellow with The Business Learning Institute (BLI), a MACPA affiliate that focuses on higher learning for leaders, strategists, and managers in the business and financial fields. He is also a member of the United Way of America's Membership Appeals Panel. Previously, Michael served as the ethics officer for the United Way of the National Capital Area. He also has hands-on experience in successfully running both for-profit and nonprofit institutions having some 20+ years' experience as President of the Ethics Resource Center, the Executive Director of the American Inns of Court Foundation, and the President of Ethics, Inc. He has published numerous articles on these topics for a wide variety of periodicals, journals, and magazines.

Michael graduated first in his class in Philosophy from Georgetown University College of Arts and Sciences in 1981. He graduated from Georgetown Law Center with a JD in Law and holds a Masters in Law with a concentration in Ethics and Professional Responsibility from Georgetown University Law Center.

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