Doug Eadie Blog
2 Powerful Board Development Vehicles: a Hot Topic at my 2022 NCE Workshop
“The Superintendent as Board-Developer-in-Chief” was one of the five presentation/discussion modules in the pre-conference workshop I presented on...
A Rock-Solid Board President-CEO Leadership Team at Work at GCRTA
In the video interview we recently recorded, Rev. Charles Lucas, Board President, and India Birdsong, General...
Bagging Three Big Feathered Friends
Let me tell you a tale of two school districts’ very different approaches to presenting financial performance reports at their monthly board...
Getting Off on the Right Foot With Your New Board
Déjà vu All Over Again A little over four years ago, listening to my new superintendent coaching client – who had recently taken the helm of a...
Passing the Search Committee Test: 5 Practical, Tested Tips
We all know that superintendent tenure has been steadily – and dramatically – declining all over the country. So far as I can tell, superintendent...
Making Board Capacity Building a Fine Art at ACCE
I opened my first one-on-one coaching session with a new chief executive client a couple of months ago by asking him to...
Beware of the Emperor’s New Clothes Syndrome
“You’re pretty obviously over your head and can’t really understand what we’re doing. Instead of getting people riled up, why don’t you get...
An Innovation Engine at Work: the Detroit Economic Growth Corporation
Nonprofit and public organizations blessed with visionary, determined board and executive team members are capable of...
How Transit CEO-Aspirants Can Demonstrate Board-Savviness to Search Committees
A major ongoing theme of www.boardsavvytransitceo.com has been preparing executive team members who are what we call CEO-aspirants to build...
President Jennifer Adair and Retiring Superintendent Talisa Dixon: the Columbus City Schools’ Dynamic Leadership Duo
The Columbus City School District was fortunate to have a dynamic, cohesive leadership team at the helm in the person of Board President Jennifer...
