Doug Eadie

Books

The Blind Visionary:
Practical Lessons for Meeting Challenges on the Way to a More Fulfilling Life and Career
by Doug Eadie and Virginia Jacko

With a forward by José Feliciano

Virginia was a successful executive at Purdue University when she was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa. She would slowly go completely blind.
As the darkness grew around her, Virginia found the Miami Lighthouse for the
Blind and Visually Impaired. - and a new mission in life. Virginia turned a
potentially-devastating condition into an opportunity, going from student
to president and CEO of the Lighthouse in just four years.

Virginia's odyssey shows you how to create greater personal and professional
satisfaction in your own life.

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Available in Soft Cover for $19.95, Hard Cover for $29.95
ebook versions (MS Reader, Palm, and pdf) coming soon

Building A Rock-Solid Partnership With Your Board
Drawing on his work with hundreds of nonprofit and public organizations of every size and purpose, governance expert Doug Eadie describes how board-savvy CEOs effectively manage the human dimension of the board-CEO relationship. Doug goes right to the heart of the issue: CEOs can do a stellar job of managing the technical requirements of their jobs but may ultimately fail because the partnership with their boards unravels over human, interpersonal issues. Therefore, partnership building must be at the top of the CEOs list of high-stakes responsibilities.
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Meeting the Governing Challenge
To the point and blissfully free of padding, Meeting the Governing Challenge describes the five key elements of Doug Eadie's High-Impact Governing Model—a powerful tool for developing the kind of board leadership and board-CEO partnership that your organization needs to succeed in carrying out its mission. This practical resource provides you with the nuts and bolts guidance to transform your board, teaches a new way to approach decision making, and describes the role of the CEO as Chief Board Developer.
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Special Offer: Buy Building A Rock-Solid Partnership With Your Board and Meeting the Governing Challenge together and receive free shipping. Use the Add to Cart button below to purchase both books.
$49.00

CD ROMs

The Board-CEO Partnership in Leading Strategic Change
Part 1: Planning For Strategic Change – The Strategic Change Portfolio
Doug's latest presentation describes a dynamic, powerful new tool, the Strategic Change Portfolio, which helps you to generate and manage projects in response to the changing needs of your organization. Doug explains how this unique approach uses your values, vision, and mission to identify challenges and develop timely responses to those strategic issues.
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The Board-CEO Partnership in Leading Strategic Change
Part 2: Board Involvement and Implementation
Picking up where Part 1 in this series: Planning For Strategic Change – The Strategic Change Portfolio left off, this program describes how to implement change in your nonprofit. Board involvement is the key, and Doug’s in-depth description of the right (and wrong) ways to involve your board helps to ensure that they accept, and even welcome, the inevitable change that must occur in all organizations. Doug identifies the barriers and resistance that you are likely to encounter, making it easier to overcome them.
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The Governance Task Force: A Powerful Tool for Developing a High-Impact Board
If your board is ready to take the initiative in developing as a governing body, fine-tuning its role, work, and structure in the interest of higher-impact leadership and board member satisfaction then Doug Eadie's presentation will show you the way. Learn how to use a Governance Task Force as an effective route to board development. Doug takes you step by step through formation of the Task Force, developing the Task Force Action Plan, and securing board action on the plan.
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Putting Board Standing Committees to Work as Governing Engines Part 1: Design
Doug Eadie's presentation provides all the information you'll need to put into place Standing Committees that will help turn your Governing Board into a higher-impact leadership body, working collaboratively with the CEO on the truly high-stakes issues facing your organization. The program teaches simple-to-apply keys for designing a committee structure that parallels board decision-making streams, divides complex issues into manageable chunks, and turns board members into satisfied owners of their work.
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Putting Board Standing Committees to Work as Governing Engines Part 2: Implementation
Picking up where Part 1: Design left off, Doug Eadie's presentation provides all the information you'll need to implement your new Standing Committee structure. This program teaches simple-to-apply keys for dealing with the inevitable challenges, ensuring committee success, putting the right committee chairs into place, and securing executive support.
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Video

Building a High-Impact Board-Superintendent Partnership

Key2Ed has produced Doug's six hour training workshop, available as an online electronic course. The program consists of six video modules covering the following topics: Board Governing Role and Work, Board Standing Committees, Board Self-Management, Leading Strategic Change, The Board-Superintendent Working Relationship and The Governance Task Force as a Board Development Vehicle. Click here for a detailed description and registration information.

Other Books by Doug Eadie

For leaders of nonprofit and public organizations

Extraordinary Board Leadership: The Keys to High Impact Governing,
Second Edition

The Second Edition of this popular favorite offers even stronger guidance on how to turn your board members into extraordinary leaders and to build a really solid board-CEO partnership. Learn how to take full advantage of your board’s tremendous governing potential by applying Doug’s High-Impact Governing Model. The practical guidance provided in this book is not abstract or theoretical; it has been thoroughly tested in real-life situations, and can be put to immediate use in your nonprofit or public organization.
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High-Impact Governing in a Nutshell: 17 Questions That Board Members and CEOs Frequently Ask
Focusing on the most critical issues you must address if you want to strengthen your board's leadership capacity, Doug addresses how the board, CEO, and executive team members of a nonprofit or public organization can work closely and positively together as a team, not as adversaries jealously guarding their turf.
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The Extraordinary CEO
The Extraordinary CEO is a kind of postgraduate guidebook for successful CEOs and CEO aspirants who have already mastered the technical skills of executive management.
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Meeting the Change Challenge: The Executive's Guide to Leading Change in the Nonprofit World - (Audio cassettes)
Learn about the three key capacities critical to successful change leadership and management: lead, innovate, and implement. An excellent resource for chief staff executives, association board members, and management team members. (Audio cassettes)
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Changing by Design
Changing by Design is the only book you will find that tells leaders and managers of nonprofit organizations of all shapes and sizes how to take command of their own change in a turbulent, always challenging, and often threatening world.
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Boards That Work
When you clarify your board's leadership role and functions you will strengthen your board's membership and self-management and will build a board-chief executive partnership that is close and positive.
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Especially for K-12 Leaders

The Board Savvy Superintendent
Coauthored with Paul Houston, Executive Director of the American Association of School Administrators, this book provides superintendents and senior administrators with detailed, practical guidance in developing the knowledge and skills required to build really close, positive, and productive partnerships with their school boards.
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Eight Keys to an Extraordinary Board-Superintendent Partnership
Eight Keys opens the door to meaningful school board involvement—in close partnership with the superintendent—in making strategic decisions for their districts, in monitoring district performance and in building relationships with key community stakeholders.
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Five Habits of High-Impact School Boards
This plain-spoken, highly readable book is an indispensable resource for school board members, superintendents, and senior administrators who are committed to strong school board leadership and solid board-superintendent partnerships.
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