Boards aren’t just placeholders, they are integral to any organization's success, especially in the nonprofit sector, where they hold a huge responsibility for protecting and directing the organization’s future. In Mary Kay’s work with boards, she has noticed some gaps in the typical approach to board development. A lot of time is spent telling board members what governance is, but not a lot of demonstrating how it looks. In this conversation, she shares her insights into what makes boards function well, the challenges they face, and how her approach to board development has helped transform organizations to look towards the future.

Let’s talk about “How to Govern.”

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Mary Kay Delvo doesn’t just build plans. She roots them. Her Strategy Tree© is more than a metaphor. It anchors strategy in something deeper: vision, mission, values, direction, and action. It is not fluff. It is the difference between a team that’s aligned with purpose and one that just goes through the motions and returns to status quo.

If you want to retain your employees, you must equip them with what it will take to thrive in our rapidly shifting environment.

Change is no longer a one-time event. Disruption no longer comes once a decade.

Does your business have Titanic Syndrome or is it designed to help you steam ahead in the face of our 21st Century reality?

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Sometimes we choose change, sometimes we don’t. Sometimes it sneaks up on us when we thought we were just creating a plan and sometimes it comes out of the blue.

A common mindset held by nonprofits lies within the belief they can save money by doing everything themselves. Just because you can do something, doesn’t mean you should.

What if you could increase your capacity for prevention by identifying problems before they happened? It is possible with a process called upstream thinking.