Practical tools and frameworks to equip nonprofit boards with the skills they need to confidently navigate their governance and fiduciary responsibilities.

Serving on a nonprofit board can be one of the most rewarding ways to make an impact. It can also be highly complex and misunderstood. While most Board members bring incredible expertise and passion to the organization they serve, many find themselves navigating unfamiliar territory: What does fiduciary duty actually mean in practice? Where's the line between strategic oversight and rolling up your sleeves? How do we ask the right questions about AI, cybersecurity, risk management, funding, and programs when the landscape is changing faster than ever?

Envoy’s Board Training equips your Board with the tools and skills necessary to govern your organization and accelerate your mission. Through interactive exercises, real-world scenarios, and practical tools, board members will gain tools, frameworks and skills they can begin using immediately.

Whether you're integrating modules into your annual retreat or designing a full-day intensive, this training meets your board where they are and equips them to lead with confidence and purpose. Modules can include:

• Understanding Fiduciary Duty. An introduction (or refresher) on fiduciary duty and a nonprofits board’s responsibilities through interactive exercises and examples.

• Roles & Responsibilities. Understanding the roles and responsibilities of the Board, Officers and Committees, and how this differs from, and compliments, the organization’s leadership team. Developing frameworks to ensure alignment, effective communication, and accountability.

• Foundations of a Strong Nonprofit Board. Good nonprofit boards execute the mission; great nonprofit boards accelerate it. Learn how great nonprofits boards lean into the healthy tension between strategy and execution to build momentum, drive growth and accelerate their organization’s mission and vision.

• Running an Effective Nonprofit Board Meeting. Nonprofits board meetings shouldn’t be boring. Learn best practices on running an effective nonprofit board meeting that engages board members, invites participation, and helps drive your organizations goals forward.

• Asking The Right Questions. Today’s world is moving faster than ever, and nonprofits boards need to navigate these changes at an unprecedented pace. This session helps nonprofit boards identify the right questions to ask when analyzing how AI, cybersecurity threats, funding challenges, etc. will impact the organization.

• Strategy Development. Shaping strategy in unpredictable times by facilitating the development of strategy that negotiates commitment across leadership teams for committed execution.

• Difficult Conversations to Necessary Conversations. Understanding on conflict is generated and escalates and strategies for turning difficult conversations into necessary conversations.

• Accountability Through Metrics That Matter. Driving accountability and growth by understanding how measuring what matters accelerates organizational performance.

• Challenging Assumptions. Analyzing the organization through different lenses to challenge longstanding assumptions and drive better outcomes.