Date: October 22, 2023
Time: 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Type: In Person
Address: Crowne Plaza Ravinia 4355 Ashford-Dunwoody Rd Atlanta, GA 30346
The challenges facing boards and heads are more complex than ever. A trusting board/head relationship creates powerful opportunities for the school to thrive and move forward when critical moments arise.
This workshop will discuss what heads need most from their boards and vice versa. It will also address those issues participants identify as most pressing in their current schools.
We will discuss key concepts including:
Skip KotkinsSenior Consultant, Carney, Sandoe & Associates
Skip Kotkins has been a senior consultant at Carney, Sandoe & Associates for ten years. About half of his work consists of leading searches for heads and senior administrators; and half is working with schools and boards on a range of needs including: strategic planning; governance (board) training and development; board best practices; school mergers; and custom retreat design and facilitation. Skip comes from the business world but has chaired 8 nonprofit boards, served extended 9-year terms on both the NWAIS and NAIS boards; worked with the largest and smallest independent schools in the country, in more than half of the states, and many foreign countries. Skip helped write NAIS Principles of Good Practice and has been a contributor to both the Trustee Handbook and the Head Search Handbook. In addition to his consulting work, Skip is a frequent writer and speaker on independent school leadership issues. Skip is a graduate (and former board chair) of Lakeside School in Seattle; has his B.A. from Williams College and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.
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