Help for When You’re Not the Board’s First Choice

An Excerpt from Karen’s CEO Conversation: The Best CEO-Chair Partnership

What happens when you are an internal candidate for the CEO position and the board chooses another? And, when that falls through, selects you? In this clip, special guest: Lori O’Keefe, President & CEO of the Triangle Community Foundation, answers.

Discover how Lori developed confidence and strength in her CEO role; you can too. 

And–learn what it’s like to attend Karen’s CEO Conversations.

Chapters of When You’re Not the Board’s First Choice: Karen’s Conversation Video Clip

00:00 Why this conversation?

00:50 Best practices- Communicate with Your Board Chair

02:06 Lori O’Keefe Introduction

03:02 “Lori, how have you developed confidence and strength in your CEO-Chair Partnerships?”

08:29 More

The Big Picture

If you’ve been a nonprofit CEO or executive director for over a few years, you’ve experienced multiple board chair partnerships. If you’re like most nonprofit CEOs, your chairs have been a mixed blessing. Some standout. Others are okay, and hopefully, no more than induced a countdown until their terms ended.

What can nonprofit CEO do to enhance their relationships with their chairs? Lot. Here are some more resources about high-quality CEO-Chair Partnerships.

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