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May highlights:
- Five questions every search committee should ask
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Recent BoardWalk placements
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New search assignments for Heifer International, YMCA, Atlanta Women's Foundation, others
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Meet Kathy Bremer, our new Managing Director
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Watch our 5th anniversary video
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Other news from the BoardWalk |
Five Questions
Every Search
Committee Should Ask
Since our founding in 2002, we have worked with literally hundreds of search committee members as they grapple with leadership succession. From this fascinating mix of missions, personalities, recruitment challenges and interview styles, we've developed some questions common to successful searches.
In this month's smorgasBoard, we offer five questions every search committee should ask of itself. In the next issue, we pose five questions every search committee should ask of its candidates.
The questions are fluid, to be sure, and we would like to hear the ones you have found most valuable in your experience. Click here to share your best questions, and we'll publish a sample in a forthcoming smorgasBoard.
Click here for "Five questions every search committee should ask itself." |
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Recent placements on the BoardWalk
We are pleased to have advised the following clients on these recent appointments:
Alice Hunt, Ph.D., comes to the presidency of Chicago Theological Seminary from her post as academic dean at Vanderbilt University Divinity School in Nashville, TN. A vital leader in religious affairs and theological education, Alice currently chairs the American Academy of Religion Committee on the Status of Women in the Profession as well as the Historical Books section for the Society of Biblical Literature's international meeting. She also serves on the board of directors and executive committee for the American Academy of Religion. She was ordained at the historic Fifteenth Avenue Baptist Church, National Baptist Convention, in Nashville, Tennessee. Hunt holds a Ph.D., an M.A in religion and an M.T.S. from Vanderbilt University as well as a B.S. from the University of Montevallo. For the full press release, click here.
Michael Howland has been named president and CEO of the Southeastern Council of Foundations (SECF), one of the nation's largest regional associations of grantmakers.
For the past six years, Mike has been CEO of Noble of Indiana, an $12-million organization that serves people with developmental disabilities through five locations in Indianapolis. Previously, Mike was CEO of a group of four nonprofit associations in Springfield, Va., that raised funds on behalf of 162 diverse national charities.
Outside the workplace, Howland serves as an adjunct professor at Indiana University, where his teaching focuses on nonprofit organizations, and he is past chairman of the Key Philanthropic Organizations Committee of the American Society of Association Executives. He is also an avid baseball fan.
Michael holds a a B.A. degree from Jacksonville University, which he now serves as a trustee, and JD and MPA degrees from Saint Louis University. For the full release, click here.
Chris Corrigan, Chief Financial Officer
Chris Corrigan has recently joined the national office of the Arthritis Foundation as Chief Financial Officer. He comes to the Foundation from Emory University, where since 2005 he had been the Chief Financial Officer of Emory College, Emory's largest operating entity, overseeing a $218-million operating budget and $350 million in endowed and restricted funds. At Emory, Chris also led the team that created and launched "Emory Advantage," a financial aid program for low-income students, and he helped develop the strategic plan for Emory College's space expansion.
Prior to Emory, Chris was CFO at Andrew College. Before that, he managed his family's farm for six years. He enjoyed the entrepreneurial life but found the economics of farming "difficult."
Chris holds an M.B.A. in Finance from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a B.S. in Physics from Notre Dame University. A former Naval Aviator, he is now a Captain (selected reservist) in the United States Naval Reserves. |
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Some of our current assignments &
Leadership Profiles:
Mandate: Chief Executive Officer
Status: Search just launched; write-up pending
Status: Prospects being developed; inquires welcomed.
Mandate: Executive Vice President, External Relations
Status: Search just launched; write-up pending
Status: BoardWalk is interviewing prospects; inquiries welcomed.
American Chestnut Foundation (write-up pending)
Status: BoardWalk is developing prospects; inquires welcomed.
Click here for a full list of our active assignments, including:
- Executive Director, East Lake Foundation
- Chief Marketing & Development Officer, Global Impact
- Vice President, Institutional Advancement, The Westminster Schools
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 Kathy Bremer named
BoardWalk's Managing Director
BoardWalk is pleased to announce the appointment of Kathy Bremer as the firm's Managing Director. Known for her teancious pursuit of excellence on behalf of clients, colleagues and the larger community, Kathy has spent her entire career raising aspirations in corporate, nonprofit and community settings.
Kathy joined BoardWalk in August 2007 after eight years as Partner and Atlanta Managing Director with Porter Novelli, where...
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Short video of BoardWalk's
5th anniversary celebration
This past January, over 250 of BoardWalk's friends and supporters from the business, government and philanthropic sectors joined us in our offices in Atlanta's historic Candler Building in belated celebration of the firm's fifth anniversary (we'll be six on October 1, 2008).
At the evening we honored two distinguished guests whose influence extends far beyond their immediate communities:
- Hala Moddelmog, president & CEO of Susan G. Komen for the Cure, who received our first annual Encore Career Award, and
- Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin, recipient of our Service Above Self Award.
Photographer Fitz Randolph created a fun video summary of the evening.
Click here to view BoardWalk in action! |
Developments on the BoardWalk
Earlier this month, we bid fond farewell to Kelly Lee, BoardWalk's Director of Research, as she left Atlanta to join her fiance' in North Carolina.
During her time at BoardWalk, Kelly played a critical role in collecting and organizing the firm's intellectual capital. She worked with dozens of clients throughout the Southeast and beyond, and her enthusiasm for all was unparalleled. She helped launch smorgasBoard , and she coordinated our highly successful BoardWalk Governance Fellowships at Harvard Business School.
Kelly, we miss you! |
Please click on the pictures below to learn more about the consultants at BoardWalk.
Kim Anderson
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Kathy Bremer
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Sam Pettway
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Margaret Reiser
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