Diversify Your Board of Directors

How to change governance structure to meet the your association's strategic goals.

Free Webinar: November 16, 10:00 CT

Associations support and serve various communities made up of a variety of groups from all different professions, skills, cultures and backgrounds. It only makes sense that the association’s board reflects that diversity.

Despite that, many organizations still struggle to achieve that goal. Is yours one of them?

Let's change that.

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So how can you improve board diversity?

The Council of Landscape Architectural Registration Boards (CLARB) began working on the organization’s board diversity in 2012. After a board assessment, they identified some key issues, including outdated governance and a limited board member pipeline and took a holistic approach to use their nomination and election process along with their governance structure to achieve the end goal of a diverse board.

Join Sidecar, Veronica Meadows, CAE, CLARB Chief Strategy Officer and Andrea Elkin, CLARB PMO Manager as we dive deep into how CLARB worked to create the solution of diversifying and vetting their board, the challenges they faced and how they solved them while staying focused on CLARB’s governance restructure goals.

In this one-hour webinar, you'll learn:

How one organization changed their governance structure to meet the strategic goals of the organization, including increasing diversity on their board within a few short years of making changes.

How to develop techniques to reduce bias and create transparency in your governance process, as well as onboard a diverse group of leaders.

About tools that will help create an objective process that ties the strategic needs of your organization to your leadership selection process.

Meet your speakers

Andrea Elkin

With 15 years of association experience, Andrea has a background in communications and event and project management. Currently, Andrea manages CLARB’s portfolio of organizational projects helping support staff in defining, planning, executing, and evaluating their scope of work for the year. In addition, Andrea manages CLARB's nominations and elections process-- serving as the staff liaison to support the organizations’ nominating committee to recruit, vet and select the future leadership.

Veronica L Meadows, CAE

Veronica Meadows is the Chief Strategy Officer for the Council of Landscape Architectural Registration Boards. Veronica is responsible for the management and refinement of CLARB’s strategy system in addition to the oversight of the organization’s governance, membership, communications, and advocacy functions to promote stakeholder engagement and empower partners to defend commonsense regulation and licensure of landscape architecture.

She partners with the CEO, Board of Directors, and management team to create CLARB’s long-term and short-term initiatives and guides the CLARB Board through the planning process. In partnership with the CEO, Veronica manages leadership development and assessment, growth initiatives, and strategic governance processes to ensure organizational effectiveness.
Her career in association management spans over 20 years and includes experience in marketing, communications, customer and public relations, strategic planning, leadership development and strategic governance systems. Meadows also serves as a Member-at-Large on the Executive Board of the Federation of Associations of Regulatory Boards (FARB) and is a Certified Association Executive.

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