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Tessé Akpeki (FCIS)
November 2014
Aspirational Governance
Goals – design your menu
Menu 1: Expectations for Engaged Leadership
Goal: Identify key leadership competencies
Spend time on Trustee/Chair recruitment, induction,
ongoing Board and Chair Development
Designing Board Culture: mission moment; opportunity
meetings - strategise, brain diversity (board members
with different thinking styles)
Menu 2 : Collaborate and Partner for
impact
Consider partnerships, mergers, collaborations and
opportunities for cooptition ( a bridge between
competition and collaboration )
The networked nonprofit is an emerging concept for
sustainability and impact
Menu 3: Effective Meetings,
Debates and Dialogue
Board Meetings, Retreat Agendas: Focus, Time, Wisdom
Measure Meeting Effectiveness
Menu 4: STARBOARD Culture -Continuous
learning & Ongoing Development
S – The Board is Strategic
T – The Board is well Trained
A – The Board is Active
R – The Board is Results Oriented
“We live in a society bloated with data, but starved of wisdom.”
(Elizabeth Lindsay)
Resilient able to dealing with Change, transition and renewal
Hallmarks of an Effective Charity (Charity
Commission);Milestones in the life of a charity
Contact
Tessé AkpekiDirector
Tessé Akpeki Associates Limited
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.tesseakpeki.com
