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The High Performing Board:
A Best Practices Conference for Board Members and Staff Leadership
Friday, September 11, 2015
8 a.m. – 5 p.m. • $69 (includes lunch)
FVCC Arts & Technology Building
If you work for or serve on a board of directors, this conference is for
you. Whether a public, corporate or nonprofit organization, you will
benefit from learning about best practices in board development,
how to measure the health of the board, tactics to improve
leadership and board relations and more. Leave with a written
plan in place to start implementing best practices in governance for
your organization. Minimize your risk and maximize the reward of
serving on or working with a board of directors!
Plenary Sessions:
• Learn Best Practices for All Boards of Directors
• How to ensure Effective Board Oversight
• Establish a Commitment and Action Plan
Break-Out Sessions:
• How to Improve the Board
• How to Enrich the Board/CEO Relationship
• Running Effective Meetings
• Mitigating Liability & Risk
SPEAKERS
Carter McNamara, MBA, PhD, is co-founder
of Authenticity Consulting, LLC, in Minneapolis,
Minnesota. The firm specializes in capacity
building and peer learning services, including
Board development programs to serve new and
established organizations. Carter has worked
with boards for 20 years, including consultation,
research and publications. He is the author
of “Field Guide to Developing, Operating and
Restoring Your Nonprofit Board” and is working on a for-profit
version of that book. He is one of the pioneers in successfully
addressing Founder’s Syndrome among leaders and boards. He
is also the designer of the national Leaders Circles peer learning
program, based on Action Learning. His “Free Toolkit for Boards” is
one of the most popular web sites for Boards and is located in the
Free Management Library at www.managementhelp.org on the Web.
Carter’s PhD is focused on organization development.
Teri McNamara is a co-founding partner in
Authenticity Consulting who consults on a wide
range of leadership and organizational development
topics, including board development. She has
co-facilitated dozens of board development and
board training projects and edited the “Field Guide
to Developing, Operating and Restoring Your
Nonprofit Board.” She also has expertise in product
and service design, and marketing. She has worked with a variety
of nonprofit and community organizations, as well as medium to
large businesses.In addition to her consulting work with Authenticity
Consulting, Teri manages all aspects of the company’s publications
business and oversees the operational side of the business, including
marketing, accounting/finance, and contract administration.
Ned Cooney of Bigfork, Montana owns
an independent consulting practice, Ascent
Strategic
Development,
specializing
in
organizational consultation and facilitation for
nonprofits, community groups, public agencies,
and businesses. Most of his career has been
in the nonprofit sector, as executive director,
program staff, volunteer, and board member.
Now, Ned serves many organizations by
following his passion for helping people learn and make better
decisions together. Ned’s company specializes in organizational
planning, program development, funding strategies, support for
executives and board members, and meeting and retreat facilitation.
Dale Cockrell and Jay T. Johnson
are practicing attorneys in Kalispell, Montana
with Moore, Cockrell, Goicoechea & Axelberg.
Dale’s areas of practice include civil and
commercial
litigation,
insurance
and
environmental and toxic tort defense. Dale is
the past-president of the Montana Defense Trial
Lawyers and a past president of the Montana
Chapter of the Federal Bar Association. Dale
currently serves on the board of directors for
the Montana Defense Trial Lawyers. Dale has
an AV rating from Martindale-Hubbell and is
honored as a Mountain States Super Lawyer.
Jay’s areas of practice include commercial
transactions, real estate, business formation,
business purchase and sales, estate planning and employment law.
8:00 - 8:30 a.m.
Registration
8:30 a.m.
Welcome and Introductions
8:45-10 a.m.
Best Practices for All Boards of Directors
• Differences between boards (for-profit, nonprofit, advisory)
• Recurring best practices for all types of Boards
• Recurring best practices for Board members
10:15-11:30 a.m.
How to Ensure Effective Board Oversight
• Key questions board members should ask
• How to ensure organizational and financial stability
• Goals for each board committee
AGENDA
11:30-12:30 p.m. Lunch (provided)
12:30 - 2 p.m.
Break-Out Session A (see options below)
2:15 - 3:45 p.m.
Break-Out Session B (see options below)
4 p.m.
Establish a Commitment and Action Plan
• What are your most important “take aways” from today?
• What should you do with them?
• What would you need to do that?
BREAK-OUT
SESSIONS
All four options will be offered in
each break-out period. Please choose
two options to attend.
Option 1:
How to Enrich the Board/CEO Relationship with Carter McNamara
• What should the relationship be?
• What is needed from the board? From the CEO?
• How to evaluate your CEO
Option 2: How to Bring Our Board to the Next Level with Teri McNamara
• How to orient and train Board members
• How to best use Committees
• How to maximize member participation
Option 3: Running Effective Meetings with Ned Cooney
• Building effective agendas
• Conducting a meeting
• Establishing the agenda and expectations
• Roberts Rules of Order
• MT public meeting laws
Option 4: Mitigating Liability & Risk with Dale Cockrell
• Ethics and the fiduciary role
• Conflict of interest
• Organizational, board and personal liability
• Risk assessment and mitigation
• Financial stewardship
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To Register, please contact the Continuing Education Center at (406) 756-3832
or fvcc.edu > Continuing Education > Non-Credit Classes & Registration > Professional Development.
During registration you will be asked for your two break-out session options.
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