Conference Session: Board Management and Development (for Executive Management)

Speaker: Don Chalmers, SparrowHawk Consulting Company, Inc.
www.sparrowhawkco.com

For the past 40 years Don has worked successfully with groups of people in a wide variety of settings; from small “encounter” groups to audiences in the hundreds.  He has served as the Executive Director of a number of nonprofit organizations including a higher education foundation and a health care system foundation and has been a member of several non-profit boards.  As a seasoned consultant, he’s collaboratively worked with scores of Executive Directors and their Pacific Northwest nonprofit boards to help their organizations grow, develop, and flourish.

By attending this session you will:

• Learn innovative, creative, and proven strategies to build a board of directors;
• Develop a clear understanding of a board’s roles and “job” within the organization;
• Review the skills and tools needed to perform those roles;
• Understand funder expectations of nonprofit boards; and 
• Learn how the board contributes to the sustainability of your organization.

Join Don at the 2nd annual Inland Northwest Nonprofit Conference – Leadership Series held Thursday, February 16th, 2012, at the Spokane Masonic Center. For more information visit the AE website.