Event Information

Description

• Agenda

  • Monday, October 23, 2017
    Governing and Managing in the Association World

    8:00 – 8:30 a.m.
    Registration and Continental Breakfast

    8:30 – 10:15 a.m.
    Association Value, Trends, and Governance Challenges

    Roles and Responsibilities of the Collective Board and Its Individual Members

    10:15 – 10:30 a.m.
    Break

    10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
    The Board’s Fiduciary Obligations, Legal Liabilities, and Emerging Accountability Issues

    Updating the Job Description for Your Board

    Characteristics and Principles of Exceptional Boards

    Assessing the Strengths and Needs of Your Board

    12:30 – 1:30 p.m.
    Lunch

    1:30 – 3:45 p.m.
    Building an Effective CEO/Board Chair Relationship

    Defining Mutual Expectations Between the CEO and the Board Chair

    3:45 – 4:00 p.m.
    Wrap Up

    4:00 – 5:00 p.m.
    Reception

    Tuesday, October 24, 2017

    Collaborative Board-Building Tasks

    8:00 – 8:30 a.m.
    Continental Breakfast

    8:30 – 10:15 a.m.
    Strengthening the Selection, Orientation, Communication, and Discipline of Individual Board Members

    Improving the Way the CEO and Board Officers Can Work

    Working Together to Recruit, Orient, Engage, or Communicate with Board Members

    10:15 – 10:30 a.m.
    Break

    10:30 a.m. – 12:10 p.m.
    Making Board Meetings More Strategic, Substantive, and Interesting

    Practices to Enhance Board Committee Structure and Process

    12:10 – 1:00 p.m.
    Lunch

    1:00 – 3:15 p.m.
    Approaches and Good Practices for Board Self‐Assessment and CEO Performance Assessment

    3:15 – 3:30 p.m.
    Review and Adjourn

• Speakers

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    Mark T. Engle, D.M., FASAE, CAE

    Mark Engle is a principal with Association Management Center in Chicago, headquarters to 32 associations with a staff of more than 230 talented professionals. Mark studied nonprofit governance and received his doctor of management degree in 2011 from Case Western Reserve University. A frequent author and speaker on governance and high-performing organizations, he served as a chief staff executive for trade associations and professional societies for 29 years. He is a fellow of ASAE and the Mandel Center for Nonprofit Leadership (Case Western Reserve University) and a BoardSource certified governance trainer. Mark has participated in more than 300 board meetings during his career.

    

    Mary M. Byers, CAE

    Mary Byers is coauthor of Race for Relevance: Five Radical Changes for Associations and Road to Relevance: Five Strategies for Competitive Associations. She served as a staff executive for two associations before starting her consulting business in 1998. Since then, she’s worked with more than 200 organizations, specializing in helping volunteer association leaders and chief staff executives to define their roles and clarify their vision through leadership conference programming, facilitating strategic planning retreats, and coaching. She has served on several boards, giving her a view from both the staff and volunteer leader side of board governance.

• Policies

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    Cancellation, Refund & Substitution Policy
    Submit all requests to ASAE Registration via email at [email protected]. All registration cancellations and refund requests must be made in writing by October 16, 2017, to receive a full refund, less a $75 administrative fee.  Refunds cannot be approved for requests received after this date, to include no-shows. Substitutions are gladly accepted at any time. Badge sharing, splitting, and reprints are strictly prohibited.

    Event Cancellation or Postponement
    ASAE reserves exclusive right to modify, postpone/reschedule or cancel programs for any reason, including but not limited to emergency, inclement weather or other ‘acts of God’.  If there is an event cancellation, every attempt will be made to reschedule, and registration fees will be applied to the rescheduled event date. Any travel, lodging, or incidental expenses incurred related to a cancelled event cannot be refunded under any circumstances. If a cancelled event cannot be rescheduled, ASAE will determine an equitable basis for the refund of a portion or all of the registration fees, after due consideration of circumstances and expenditures.

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