Fill the Seat: The Onboarding Blueprint for Your Nonprofit Board Chair

Help! My nonprofit needs a board chair!

Finding board volunteers to serve in this top governance role is a near universal problem throughout the nonprofit sector, but have we ever stopped to look at why this seat is so hard to fill? And better yet, is there anything we can do about it?

In this totally not boring book on board chairs, Dr. Kate Shilvock demonstrates how small investments in the onboarding process of this role can have a deep and lasting impact on your nonprofit. Dr. Shilvock combines her evidence-based, verified research with her 25 years of nonprofit experience to provide you with quick and effective ways to deepen your board chair's commitment to your nonprofit, while helping to ensure there is a pipeline of future leaders.

With minimal time and effort on your part.

Why not try a new approach to securing nonprofit governance leadership with tools such as:

- How to motivate your board chair (and yourself!)

- How to create blueprint for governance success specific to your organization

- How to ensure that governance knowledge stays with your organization term after term

Still not sold? What if you learned that treating the board chair role as a brand new position for the volunteer (no matter how long they have served on your board!) and onboarding them correctly could:

- Minimize friction between board and staff

- Strengthen your nonprofit culture in the boardroom and beyond

- Reduce the cyclical stress of frequently recruiting for the board chair role

Ready to learn how little changes in your approach to the nonprofit board chair role can make a big difference? Go ahead and jump in, promise you'll be entertained and learn a new trick or two that can help ensure a strong governance partnership for your nonprofit's leaders!