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March 7, 2024
Inclusive Board Meetings
Thank you to ISCA Board member, Amy Millin, for sharing this great article recently published in Stanford Social Innovation Review. So now that you have a more diverse board, how to make it a more inclusive board? The article provides concrete guidance to aid Board Chairs in "bringing out the best insights from their new members."
The article provides the following 4 steps leading to inclusive governance with full implementation suggestions to use with your board. Here are the steps and sample board conversation starters and tactics from the article:
Agree on the Big Why
How is inclusion of all board members critical to achieving our mission and successful initiatives?
Design Agendas to Create Generative Conversations
What is our north star, the values and approaches that shouldn't change,
when all else does?
Build Board Members' Financial Expertise
Ask new board members to rotate through a seat on the Finance committee in their first year to understand the workings of budget and investments
Bring Views of Those You Seek to Help Into All Strategy Discussions
Connect board members directly to the work through voting or nonvoting community liaisons like faculty reps or PA president, student advisory panel, feedback surveys.*
* examples edited to reflect school boards
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