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October 4, 2006
Five questions every board should ask
Our day-to-day experience has taught us that the key
questions every board should ask of itself and
management are really quite simple. If you never
leave the basics, you never have to go back to them,
and these questions are ones every board (and every
board member) should ask, early and often, beginning
with
Why are we here?
Announcing our 2006 BoardWalk Governance Fellows Next stop: Harvard Business School
Continuing an annual program that celebrates BoardWalk's
founding on October 1, 2002, we are pleased to
announce nine new BoardWalk Governance Fellows, our
largest class yet.
Each of our nine Fellows receives substantial
tuition assistance to attend a transformational
program at Harvard Business School entitled "Governing
for Nonprofit Excellence: Critical Issues for Board
Leadership."
Trustees from organizations in Georgia, Alabama,
Tennessee and Texas comprise this year's class of
fellowship recipients. Their missions range
from a nationally prominent cancer-fighting
foundation to a tiny nonprofit focused on economic
development in just one inner city neighborhood.
They were selected from among some 600 nonprofit
board members who requested our preliminary
application.
Gov. William Winter named
Board Champion of the Month Typically, our BoardChampion is someone whose
accomplishments have gone largely unheralded, but
Governor Winter is a worthy exception. His
relentless pursuit of social improvement is an
inspiration to all who know him and to many who will
never have that privilege.
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New engagement:
President United Way of Metropolitan Atlanta We are honored to have been retained by the board of
the United Way of Metropolitan Atlanta to assist in
the search for a successor to Mark O'Connell, who
recently announced his intention to retire after 36
years as a United Way executive, 18 of them in Atlanta.
BoardWalk has begun intensive interviews with a
broad array of stakeholders, both locally and
nationally, and we expect to have a formal
Leadership Profile ready for distribution in time
for next month's smorgasBoard.
New engagement:
Director of Development Theater of the Stars Theater of the Stars is one of the oldest and most
respected regional theaters in America. Founded in
1953, the company has produced or presented over 700
productions in Atlanta, across the country, and
around the world.
BoardWalk will be assisting with the CEO in Theater
of the Stars' first search for a Director of
Development. Please visit our website later this
month for the Leadership Profile.
New client appointment:
John Neubauer, Executive Director Alabama Historical Commission On August 30th the Alabama Historical Commission (AHC) unanimously voted to hire retired Air Force Col. John A Neubauer to take the helm of the state's historic preservation agency. A 27-year veteran of military service, John offers the leadership experience, determination and diplomacy essential to address the many competing issues and interests intrinsic to a statewide historical agency. A life-long student and aficionado of southern
history, John fell in love with the people, culture
and friendliness of Alabama while serving as Vice
President of Support
Services and Air Base Wing Commander of Maxwell Air
Force Base, where he led a workforce of 2,400 and
provided support services for two installations
encompassing 4,100 acres, two historic districts a
museum and hospital.
New client appointment:
Emily Ellison, Executive Director Literacy Action Georgia's largest private provider of adult basic education, Literacy Action has just appointed Emily Ellison to succeed retiring executive director Mattie Eley, who leaves an extraordinary legacy of 27 years of service to the organization and its mission. A published novelist and former journalist, Emily
Ellison is widely known as the visionary and
co-founder of The Atlanta Girls’ School. Inspired
by a 1997 New York Times article discussing the
merits of single-sex education, Ellison embarked
upon a journey to establish a single-sex school to
educate the young girls of Atlanta. Today, the
Atlanta Girls' School (AGS) is home to 190 students
and has a 21-member board comprising corporate and
civic community leaders.
Her fiction and nonfiction work has been widely
anthologized, and she has published children's books
and an educational tool that encourages elementary
school-aged students to read--all experiences relevant
to the challenges that greet her at Literacy Action.
Ongoing Engagements:
 Atlanta Track Club Search mandate: Executive Director Status: BoardWalk is interviewing prospects; inquiries still welcomed. (view Leadership Profile) Click here to read the Atlanta Journal Constitution's recent take on our search for the Atlanta Track Club.  Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta Search mandate: Vice President of Development and Marketing Status: Client is interviewing candidates or is scheduled to do so. (view Leadership Profile)  Genocide Intervention Network, Washington, DC Search Mandate: Chief Operating Officer Status: Prospects being developed; inquiries welcomed. (view Leadership Profile) 
Habitat for Humanity International, Atlanta & Americus, GA Search Mandate: Senior Vice President, US & Canada Operations Status: Client is interviewing candidates or is scheduled to do so. Search Mandate: Vice President of Organizational Learning Status: Formal offer extended & accepted; announcement pending. (view Leadership Profile)  Harvest Foundation, Martinsville, VA Search mandate: Executive Director Status: Client is interviewing candidates or is scheduled to do so. (view Leadership Profile) Obici Healthcare Foundation, Suffolk, VA Search Mandate: Chief Executive Officer Status: Client has met the full slate of endorsed candidates; decision pending. (view Leadership Profile) On the BoardWalk...
This month we are pleased to welcome two new
colleagues to our support team at BoardWalk Consulting:
 Kaily Lam is BoardWalk Consulting's Project Coordinator and the newest member of our team. A native of Hawaii, Kaily graduated from Stanford University with a Bachelor of Arts in International Relations. Her honors thesis at Stanford, "The Sustainability of Venture Philanthropy," analyzed the growth and current challenges of philanthropic venture funds and the methods by which they can promote sustainability--a topic clearly relevant to our work at BoardWalk.  Beth Huddleston joins BoardWalk as our inaugural intern. She is a senior at Emory University's Goizueta School of Business, pursuing an honors degree in Finance and Psychology. Beth has long possessed a love for nonprofits. As founder and chairman of the Goizueta Forum for Ethics, Beth coordinates programs to explore the issues of corporate responsibility and ethical conduct within the world of business. Further, she is the co-founder of the Emory University Community Development Initiative. During the summers, she spends time in Guatemala, translating in a free women's clinic. BoardWalk's consultants
Please click on the pictures below to learn more
about the consulting resources at BoardWalk.
E-mail: sam@boardwalkconsulting.com
Telephone: 404-BoardWalk (404-262-7392) On the Web: http://www.BoardWalkConsulting.com |
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