Building Your Board
Friday, April 26, 2024 from 8:45-10:00 AM
Board and volunteer development is one of the most important success imperatives of all nonprofit organizations. Effective leadership endures over time to guide organizations through growth challenges and into mature, thriving organizations. Leadership is more than the board president. Leadership includes officers, committee chairs, advisory board members, special event chairs, volunteer managers and engaging everyone as a fundraiser. How do you create a pipeline of committed, enthusiastic and skilled leaders? How does succession planning ensure consistent leadership?
Learn how to build our leadership bench: identify, recruit, engage, train, manage, motivate and retain leadership to effectively operate and scale your nonprofit. Explore the dynamics of healthy leadership and put best practices to work for your organization.
Meet the Speaker | Debbie Mason
Debbie Mason has been a consultant to business, nonprofit and government clients for more than 20 years. Her career also includes marketing agency ownership, and healthcare and international corporate C-Suite roles before transitioning to nonprofit leadership. In the nonprofit sector, she has served as CEO to three foundations before serving the year in fractional CEO/COO roles.
Debbie holds numerous professional credentials in public relations and fundraising including Certified Fundraising Executive; Certified Public Relations Counselor from the Florida Public Relations Association; Accredited public relations professional from the Universal Accreditation Board; and has been recognized as a Fellow by the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA).
Debbie has served as a contributing writer to Business in Greater Gainesville, ASAE Florida and for more than a decade as a peer review editor for the national research journal the Foundation Review.
Debbie earned a bachelor’s degree in public relations/journalism from the University of Florida, where she now serves as an adjunct professor. She earned a master’s degree in communications management from Syracuse University. Debbie resides in Key West with her goofy standard poodle, Tucker, aka Mr. Poodlicious.