Leadership — Organizations can succeed with Effective Leadership.
Organizations can be successful when board and organizational leaders are aligned in their efforts to achieve two principle outcomes.
- Mission Effectiveness: The organization is strategically and operationally focused at growing the impact of its mission in the community. The organization can demonstrate that the mission is making a difference in the lives of people.
- Organizational Effectiveness: The organization is focused at growing its capacity and expanding its resources to support and expand the mission in the community.
The opportunity to achieve organizational success depends largely on leadership. The chief executive, first of all, must be able to work with the board as a governance partner. And secondly, the chief executive must be able to organize and nurture a leadership system within the organization that enables individuals to work together to achieve its two principal outcomes, mission and organizational effectiveness.
Chief Executive
The most important task of the Board of Directors is the selection of the chief executive. When the chief executive has been appointed, the board must focus at the development of a governance partnership, without it, the chief executive will fail.
The chief executive is responsible to development and support a leadership system that will ensure organizational success. Core to the leadership system is a mission-based culture that energizes people, nurtures relationships, promotes learning and development, and enables them to be their best at work.
The work of the leader can be a heavy responsibility. It is also a compelling, crucial challenge as you inspire and engage the board and the organization. In gray areas, your job isn’t finding solutions; it’s creating them, relying on your judgement and experience.
Lloyd’s Experience
Lloyd has 40 years of senior and executive leadership experience in three nonprofit organizations. His first leadership experience was as a executive director in a small Wisconsin nonprofit organization called Society’s Assets, Inc. Since then he has worked as a senior leader for eight years at Hope Haven. Inc. and as an executive leader for 28 years at ChildServe, both organizations are located in Iowa.
Lloyd has accumulated a wealth of leadership experience working for organizations, consulting with organizations, and learning from colleagues about their leadership experiences. His service on the boards of other nonprofit human service and mental health organizations, and several college boards of trustees have also shaped his leadership views and the importance of the organizational success. In recognition of his leadership experience and impact in Iowa, Lloyd was recently selected as the Executive of the Year by the Iowa Association of Community Providers.
Advice, Consultation and Coaching
Lloyd is available to assist executive and senior leaders as they strive to navigate the challenges of governance, mission, culture, leader development and performance. He can share his expertise as an advisor, consultant, or coach.
Areas of Expertise:
- Leadership and Governance – working with the board chair and the board to strength governance; manage the governance partnership boards.
- Leadership and Mission – use strategic and operational planning to support, strengthen and expand the mission.
- Leadership and Culture – build and nurture a culture that energizes and engages people to do their best work as employees and volunteers.
- Leader Development & Succession – build a culture that promotes learning and development of all leaders and those that aspire to be leaders and promotes leaders from within the organization.
- Leadership and Organizational Performance – build an organizational system that is designed to achieve organizational success by supporting the mission and improve performance.