Identify areas for greatest impact or gain insights on key issues.
Take advantage of AGB’s 100 years of experience strengthening board governance as a powerful partner to help you prioritize steps for optimizing your board, discuss what’s keeping you up at night, or gain insight on current and emerging issues facing higher education.
Our AGB consulting team is led by thought partners who possess deep understanding rooted in their experience as college, university, system, and foundation board and committee chairs, board members, chief executives, or senior level executives as well as specialists in critical areas for board oversight.
The One-Hour Governance Consultation is a discussion between the president/CEO and/or board chair and an expert AGB consultant who will be paired based on the discussion topic(s) chosen.
This offering is an annual benefit of your AGB membership, with no additional fee or commitment.
Make the most of your consultation.
Prepare in advance to understand where your board may need guidance or benefit from an outside perspective. AGB tools and services can help you gain greater insight into your board’s challenges and opportunities. Focusing on specifics can help you walk away from your consultation with concrete next steps toward achieving desired future outcomes.
Determine the topic for your one-hour governance consultation by taking the following steps:
- Review a governance checklist of leading practices to identify areas in which your board could benefit from support.
- Take advantage of the Board Performance Survey and review results with an AGB expert. Or choose a topic of focus from the list below.
Download an overview of the One-Hour Governance Consultation member benefit.
One Hour Governance
Topic Focus Areas
- Board processes and practices
- Roles and responsibilities of board members
- Board structure, culture, and composition
- Effective committees
- Fiduciary duties
- The board’s role in accreditation
- Top strategic issues your board should be considering
- Board assessment
- The board’s role in shared governance
- Effective relations between the board and CEO
- Leadership succession planning
- Managing transitions
- Best practices for institution-foundation relationships
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