What can a Chair do to energise and enthuse non profit Board members? Come along and find out!

What: Ōtautahi Governance Bites 2025 

Where: 3rd Wednesday of Month, at Aldersgate, 309 Durham Street North, Christchurch Central

When: Sessions will run from 5.30pm to 7.00pm, with doors opening and pizza, tea & coffee available from 5.00pm.

Hosted by Volunteer Canterbury, and free to participants, thanks to funding from Rātā Foundation. Registration essential for each session at outreach@volcan.org.nz 

Keeping Board Members Engaged (and Other Roles of the Chair)

Date: 19 Nov 2025 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Facilitator: Garth Nowland-Foreman, from LEAD Centre for Not for Profit Governance and Leadership

Chairs have one of the most demanding jobs in a non-profit. What is realistic and what are the essentials? Can we look again at sharing roles around the board table? One of the key roles of a chair is to facilitate the board as a group – especially in its core role as group decision-makers. And given participation is the purpose if you are going to bother calling a meeting, how can a chair best facilitate real participation that will energise and enthuse board members, and get the best possible decisions from a diverse group? We will look at some practical tools and frameworks to help make this happen in real world non-profit boards.