The Board/Founder Relationship
Making It Work
Workshop facilitated by Laura Otten
Thursday, January 8, 2009 from 1:00 pm – 4:30pm
(Check-in and lunch at 12:30 pm)
Frelinghuysen Arboretum, Haggerty Educational Center
53 East Hanover Avenue, Morristown
Founders of nonprofit organizations are generally imaginative, creative, and entrepreneurial leaders. But all those elements that led to the creation of the organization and its success can also present relationship challenges between a Board and the founding executive. The following questions will be answered in this half-day session: How does the Board execute its roles and responsibilities when the founder is the one who brought the Board on to help make this vision a reality? Or step in when the original mission and strategic plan need changing? Or plan for the succession of a founder and successfully hire a new director? And how do both Board and founder adapt to the changing relationship? We encourage Founding Executives to bring a team of up to three additional Board Executive Committee members to this workshop.
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