Keep it Focused
Conscience of the Organization
Outstanding boards serve as the conscience of their organizations: they ensure professional and prudent management in the achievement of the organizational mission. The board does not run the company, which is the responsibility of executive leadership, but they oversee the strategic direction. We bring years of experience serving on multiple boards, advising board members on their governance responsibilities, and coaching CEOs and Board Chairs on relationships and engagement. We work as a catalyst to superior performance by advising on each component of:
- Board design, purpose, and strategy
- Board recruitment and composition
- Board leadership
- Board effectiveness
- Board development
Don’t Settle For Less
Optimize Board Goals and Objectives
Almora Advisors uses best practices to help boards be exceptional through a comprehensive process of conversations, evaluations, and assessments.
We bring clarity on the power of a well-designed, well-recruited, well-trained, and mindful board. We address the risks of organizational failure from a dysfunctional board. We believe the key in optimizing board performance is through a collaborative and professional CEO and Board Chair relationship. Ensuring that the board has taken an extensive look at their roles and responsibilities begins the process for effective board governance.
Through our approach, we will work to create vibrate culture at your organization.
Services
What We Can Do For You
We start by reviewing board roles and responsibilities, the Bylaws, and the board structure and operations. We help instill high ethical standards and fiduciary duty.
We then review board policies and practices, board leadership & engagement, and partnership between the board and executive leadership. We partner with your organization to develop a strategy to improve board recruitment, retention, and diversity.
We focus on strengthening the fundraising culture by developing a collaborative strategy for fundraising, instilling board’s leadership role in fundraising and stewardship, formalizing the giving policies, and helping organizations obtain 100% board participation. We assist the CEO/CDO in developing board members’ fundraising contributions through collaborate solicitations and network sharing.
Evaluate Best Practices
Define board roles & responsibilities, review board structure, and instill ethical standards & fiduciary duties.
Review Board Policies
Assess board leadership & engagement and evaluate the relationship between the board & CEO.
Strategy
Partner to develop a strategy to improve board development, recruitment, retention, and diversity.
Onboarding
Develop unique and customized onboarding toolkits for new board members.
Board Satisfaction
Conduct board assessments through unique competency based approach.
Engagement
Lead board rethinking strategies and enable creative contribution & innovation.
Process
Make sure the strategies work
implementation
We help translate your unique vision into elaborate implementable responsibilities with defined outcomes in agreed timeframes with measurable results.
monitoring
Change happens when it is rigorously monitored and measured. We help define clear responsibilities and timing for actions, with defined outcomes, cost, and milestones.
evaluation
We supplement the plans by evaluating them using metrics like SMART Goals and Key Performance Indicators. Evaluating the results are key to a successful strategy.
Almora Advisors developed a comprehensive and strategic Volunteer Management Plan for C-Change Conversations. They were very professional in their approach and provided a well-conceived structure to guide us through the process, helping crystalize goals and strategies and providing strong recommendations for implementation. While the undertaking was quite rigorous, we enjoyed it and felt we had strong partners guiding us.