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Is your nonprofit board underperforming? Is your board a burden rather than a strategic asset? Does your board appear to be surviving rather than thriving? What if you could diagnose and treat every one of your board challenges rather than waste time wondering how to change the dynamics at your next meeting? What would it mean to have a dynamic board fulfilling its potential to advance your mission? Even better: imagine what it would be like to love your board! Mary Hiland's decades in the trenches informs every common-sense solution she recommends for your most angst-inducing board dilemmas. You'll feel as if you have an experienced coach at your side, spurring you on to tackle the most persistent issues. Love Your Board! is brimming with tough love and a hearty dose of empathy for executive directors who need real-life answers. Read this book and you'll: Discover your board operates within three dimensions and how, within each, you can turn board problems into board performance. Have new insights about the people and the process aspects of those three dimensions: board capacity, connections, and culture. Understand the critical success factors needed for your board to improve. Learn how to navigate board member personalities and strengthen the critical board chair/CEO relationship. Gain insider knowledge about serious issues that limit your board's potential. Learn evidence-based practices that work for addressing those challenges. Restore your energy and catalyze your board with the practices board members need to create real change. Begin to love your board! And when you purchase Love Your Board! you will have access to tools and resources valued at $2,000! The Chapters: Chapter One: How Do Boards Get Better? Chapter Two: Capacity: People Chapter Three: Capacity: Process Chapter Four: Connection: People Chapter Five: Connection: Process Chapter Six: Culture: People and Process Chapter Seven: Bringing It All Together What Others Are Saying: Reading this wonderfully supportive, practical, and reflective book will give you the tools you need to help your board overcome its deficiencies and unlock its potential to lead your nonprofit organization brilliantly. Love Your Board! is a must-read for all nonprofit executives, no matter how long in your leadership role. Christine Duncan CEO, YWCA Monterey County Love your board? Really? Is it possible? It sure is. Just ask Mary Hiland. In this remarkable book, Mary brings her wealth of experience and practical insights to a very real problem that's vexed nearly every executive director: how to work with your board. Matt Hugg President and Founder, Nonprofit.Courses I loved this book! It is easy to follow, warm, and congenial. It is evidence-based, and the examples illustrate and move the reader through the processes Mary recommends. The tree metaphor made the book feel like the advice and information given is organic and could become part of the fabric of an organization. I highly recommend it to all executive directors. Maria Nicolacoudis CEO, Hearts & Minds Activity Center

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Mary Hiland does a masterful job guiding the chief executive to help board members identify telltale symptoms and follow them to the problem's root causes. Having taken this journey together, they are then guided along the path toward resolution. Love Your Board! is for any executive director/CEO who wants to help their board achieve its full potential. Ted Hart, ACFRE, CAP(R) Author and ConsultantMary Hiland hits it out of the park with Love Your Board! She takes you into real-life board issues with all their messy uniqueness. Joanne Oppelt President and CEO, CAF AmericaA well-running board is the one big difference between effective, successful nonprofits and those that wither and die, sometimes in their prime. This book will help your board become the well-honed machine that drives success for your nonprofit. Linda Lysakowski, ACFRE

Mary Hiland does a masterful job guiding the chief executive to help board members identify telltale symptoms and follow them to the problem's root causes. Having taken this journey together, they are then guided along the path toward resolution. Love Your Board! is for any executive director/CEO who wants to help their board achieve its full potential. Ted Hart, ACFRE, CAP(R) - President and CEO, CAF America A well-running board is the one big difference between effective, successful nonprofits and those that wither and die, sometimes in their prime. This book will help your board become the well-honed machine that drives success for your nonprofit. Linda Lysakowski, ACFRE - Author and Consultant Mary Hiland hits it out of the park with Love Your Board! She takes you into real-life board issues with all their messy uniqueness. Joanne Oppelt - Author, Trainer, Consultant, and Growth Coach Reading this wonderfully supportive, practical, and reflective book will give you the tools you need to help your board overcome its deficiencies and unlock its potential to lead your nonprofit organization brilliantly. Christine Duncan - CEO, YWCA Monterey County The most common challenge I hear from both first-time and long-term executive directors is how to engage their board to do, well, MORE! If you've had this same thought, Mary Hiland is the perfect person to guide you through the step-by-step, comprehensive journey you can and should take. Sherry Quam Taylor - CEO of QuamTaylor LLC I'm a former executive director, and reading Love Your Board! changed my perceptions about boards. Mary gives a well-researched and clearly written view of the role of the board in nonprofit organizations. The Capacity/Connection/Culture framework made complex ideas easy to understand. Applying the framework, sharing real-life stories to illustrate it, and giving practical strategies for working through a myriad of board challenges make this book required reading for executive directors. Dee Wischmann, Executive Coach - Former President & CEO, Catholic Charities Silicon Valley I especially appreciated Mary's identification of the three critical factors for successful board development: the use by the executive director of the nudge to take the board to the next level, the need for intentionality, and the focus on the indispensable role of the board's chair. I recommend Mary's book for all nonprofit leaders and board members. Dr. Rob Harter - Executive Director, Christian Center of Park City - Founder and Host of The Nonprofit Leadership Podcast By breaking board improvement into either capacity, connections, or culture and providing case studies, Mary provides clear, actionable steps for proactively responding to any need an executive director might face in working with their board. This is a book to read once and then go back to regularly as different situations arise. Shawn Gerth - Executive Director, Educare California at Silicon Valley When plenty of books on nonprofit boards seem to be every bit as complex as their subject, Mary Hiland shows her mastery by taking the opposite approach: she uses simple stories and explanations to help us understand the root causes of nonprofit board dysfunctions and what executive directors can do to help their boards overcome them. Shake Sulikyan - President & Executive Director, ValleyCare Charitable Foundation

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Mary Hiland, PhD is a nonprofit board and leadership development consultant dedicated to assisting nonprofit executives and board members in unleashing their organizational and community impact potential. She works with nonprofit leaders to strengthen the executive/board partnership and develop the board as a powerful force for organizational and mission results. Mary is a coach and mentor for boards, individual board leaders, and executive directors. Mary has over forty years of experience in the nonprofit sector-twenty-six as an executive. Her executive experience began with a small nonprofit ($100,000 budget), which she grew by leading two nonprofit mergers into one of the largest nonprofits in the California Bay Area-with 530 staff and a budget of $25 million. Mary has been consulting since 2002, working with several hundred nonprofits, including associations and all-volunteer nonprofits. The focus of her consulting is board development and executive leadership. As a certified Strategic Restructuring Consultant, Mary has trained and consulted with over ninety nonprofits on mergers and strategic alliances, coaching and facilitating nonprofit leaders through all phases of the process. Mary understands a board's perspective first-hand, having chaired and served for eighteen years on several nonprofit boards. Mary is a speaker, published author, and researcher. She has presented at numerous conferences, conducts workshops, and is a business professor at DeAnza Community College. She is a contributing author to four books on nonprofit leadership and governance, including You and Your Nonprofit Board (2013) and Leading and Managing in the Social Sector: Introduction and Overview (2017). Mary has received numerous awards, including the Silicon Valley Excellence in Nonprofit Leadership Award, Tribute to Women in Industry Achievement Award, Woman of Achievement in Community Service, and the NSFRE Spirit of Philanthropy Award. Mary obtained her PhD designation in 2006, focusing on nonprofit leadership and governance, doing research on the board chair/executive relationship and effective boards. Mary has three master's degrees: social work, public administration, and organizational development. Mary is the founder and host of the podcast Inspired Nonprofit Leadership. Learn more about Mary by visiting her website: https: //www.hilandconsulting.org/meet-mary/more-about-mary LinkedIn: https: //www.linkedin.com/in/maryhiland Inspired Nonprofit Leadership Facebook Group: https: //tinyurl.com/inspirednonprofitleadership Company Facebook: https: //www.facebook.com/hilandconsulting

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