Friday Share! Building More Inclusive Boards: An Introduction

Your board continues to struggle to achieve meaningful and lasting diversity and inclusion. Whether you face challenges with recruiting the right talent, having diverse voices in planning, and/or retaining and preparing diverse candidates for leadership roles, you know that you need to do something different to have a more inclusive board. This interactive season helps you understand the why behind DEI in nonprofit board recruitment, recognize the common structural and cultural barriers, and leave with key questions to spark a discussion on your board.

Part 2 to our Friday Share: Are You Ready? Navigating Board Service
Didn’t attend Part 1? You can still register—each event is designed to stand on its own.

Registration:

• Members: Free!
  
• Non-members: $15
  
  

Speaker:

Rena Henderson Mason
Founder & Chief Engagement Officer
Bold Agenda

Rena leads Bold Agenda, a firm focused on empowering leaders to embrace change, push bold ideas, and build high performing, diverse, inclusive teams through a range of cycles. She helps facilitate the critical generative and strategic discussions and decisions that help transform an organization, its leaders and culture. She focuses on the key levers of better governance, courageous leadership, strategic planning, and a more inclusive and equitable approach. Her specialty is coaching Board Chairs and CEOs through growth, leadership transitions, strategic alliances, restructuring, turnaround and crises.

Since most of Bold Agenda’s work is with boards and executive staff, Rena spends a lot of time understanding and deconstructing power in an organization to encourage and support shared leadership in practice, structures and processes. Also, our collaborative approach to consulting and facilitation has always centered those leaders whose vital voices are frequently not heard. She has a particular interest and experience in working with founders and founder-like leaders as they engage their boards and understand the issues that arise in these situations.

Previously, Rena spent over 20 years helping scale businesses in the food, real estate, publishing and investment banking industries. Rena has an MBA from Harvard Business School and Bachelor’s in Finance/International Management from Georgetown University. She is a BoardSource Certified Governance Consultant, an ICF-certified coach and expert facilitator, in person and virtually. She serves as a Board Trustee for Calumet College of St. Joseph and is a member of the Chicago Foundation for Women’s South Side Giving Circle.