Freqently Asked Questions

Yes, other board members (President-Elect, Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer, Director, i.e. “President Candidates” ) can join. Two membership benefit categories await to help you in your role whether you aspire to become Board President or not.

No to any paid staff (CEO or executive director, department heads or key personnel).

Accomplishment deserves a home. Carrying this title is a distinct thing, changing almost daily, electric and transient at moments yet isolation and puzzlement can creep in. Our team worked with enough board presidents over four decades and saw a consistently unmet need. So we built the thing we wish already existed: one place that sees the role clearly, and respects it enough to meet you where you really are.

Your moment matters. Give what you have the importance and attention it deserves (because it may never happen again). Yes, the board looks to you. An executive director and staff may watch you. The members are your ultimate reports, some on committees, always judging. But in those silent moments, you’re perhaps left asking: am I steering, or drifting, or doing just fine? Is this thing “working”?

Lived experience, to use the term, is what drives this. Our founding team got ridiculously clear on the unmet need for exclusivity of community via title. We continue to build out a rare space built solely and entirely for the person holding the gavel.

Yes, that’s your team. But equally important we are your mirror. Your private vantage point to clearly see what you already sense. Without agenda, without omissions or spin.

Books explain. Some truly inspire. It’s why we buy way too many of the trendy ones at the airport. But it sometimes takes effort to process all of it. This community equips. By compressing insights into reflection questions, reflection answers into best choices, without tasking you with more, you’re likely left with less. Think “mind shift” not “mind add”, “perspective shift” not “perspective add”. Think “focus shift” not “focus add.”

Here you reclaim what your role lacks by design: neutral ground, unfiltered perspective, and a cadence of strategic check-ins that keep you from drifting. A private space to go deeper, faster.

Generic leadership advice although often excellent does miss the target. This feeds you directly. It doesn’t wander from the title. It centers with sensitivity and specificity on the role you’re in. Understand this: being a board president isn’t the exactly the same as performance in other leadership roles like CEO or business owner.

Clarity travels. When your leadership sharpens—when expectations you create are clear and delivered with the right tone—everyone’s game rises. Meetings improve, time tightens, purpose deepens.

Yes. Our street cred. Having lived through them for four decades and always walked out the other side, our founders are drawn to the hard problems that keep leaders up at night. The ones where the stakes are high, the path isn’t clear. And you are the one person expected to hold steady with no support. What the system forgot is what you’re given here. A trusted and time tested community.

That’s the tension at the very heart of board leadership (i.e. see “alone”). You see “it” not because you’re guessing, but because you’ve lived it, been shaped by it, and paid the price of getting it wrong. But now you’re in a room full of equals, each holding a vote, a different vantage point. Your challenge becomes: how do I convey trust to guide along what others can’t yet but I see the path already, without pushing so hard they dig in?

Here’s the truth under the surface: this role is meaningful yet rare and fleeting—and yet instead of calm presence, there’s occasional panic on your part others can sense. You’ve worked hard to get here. Self pressure, the weight of getting it right—of making it matter—can impact how you present and perform.

During the moments that weren’t on the checklist. The moments that catch in your throat. It’ll happen alone or when in a group. You realize they’re truly following you .. not because they have to, but because they trust you.

Yes - it’s a smart idea. If you need help making the case, we’ll assist.

Only when you’ve shifted the odds. You stop expecting meetings to behave. Rather, give the room less space to spiral. You won’t control everything, but you will control what matters most: how the conversation begins, where it points, and what it leaves behind.

Prepare better. Your engagements with this platform make this clear. You’ll walk in with better framing—and walk out with better forward motion. Most board conversations spiral because no one owns the frame. Board presidents show up with intuition and urgency - but without a tight through-line, the room wanders. Decisions delay. Energy drips away.

Could be the first day, the first week. Or longer, it all depends. When you’re invested here it could just be a few focused moments that genuinely shifts your perspective. Or uncovers a new insight, rethinks a challenge, or resets your approach.

Facilitation is deliberate and disciplined. Sessions are best when very interactive. Conversation flows are guided towards insight declarations. The goal is clarity, not consensus. You won’t be asked to share feelings. You will be asked to share thinking.