Board Consulting

Shane Kinkennon helps nonprofit boards of directors provide consequential leadership.

 I help Boards navigate complex moments.

I help nonprofit boards when their organizations are in periods of significant change, leadership transition, and even board dysfunction, or when in strategic-planning cycles.I provide expertise to strengthen board performance, structure, and governance, helping boards meet their legal, fiduciary, and strategic responsibilities in such a way that individual members may derive joy through board service.

Services for boards

  • Board development: Help boards develop and execute recruit strategy, attract optimal new members, and onboard those new members well.

  • Governance structure and best practices: Help boards evaluate their performance and keep their roles, responsibilities, and policies aligned with what the organization truly needs.

  • Strategic planning and support. Assist boards in playing their optimal role in generating high-value insights and informing long-term strategy. 

  • Board-management relationships. Help boards forge high-functioning, high-value relationship between board and staff, and design succession planning.

  • Conflict resolution. Provide meditation and guidance amid internal board conflict and related people-dynamics challenges.

  • Fundraising. Help boards understand and embrace the role they can play in helping organizations hit their financial-development targets.

  • “Members of my Board of Directors are telling me that the planning retreat Shane and his team designed and facilitated for was truly a wonderful experience and the most productive RBFF gathering they have ever been to. I couldn’t agree more.”

    — Dave Chanda, President & CEO, Recreational Boating & Fishing Foundation

  • “Investing in continuous learning and up-skilling is critical for personal and organizational growth. I’ve been a CEO for many years, yet since I invested in working with Shane, I find myself scaling my own value to my business. Our executive team will climb higher mountains thanks to subtle but crucial calibrations resulting from working with Shane.”

    — Virgil Bretz, CEO, MacroHealth

  • “Shane’s approach to facilitation is thorough, and his style is energetic. He can keep a tough group of busy, hard-charging people moving and really drive to consensus. He is excellent.”

    — Faryar Shirzad, Chief Policy Officer, Coinbase