[homeles_ot-l] FW: Invitation to a Presentation - Navigating Board Staff Dynamics: Leadership, Governance and Mgmt - Carleton University

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From: CVSRD [mailto:CVSRD at cunet.carleton.ca] 
Sent: June 28, 2010 9:48 AM
Subject: Invitation to a Presentation - Navigating Board Staff Dynamics:
Leadership, Governance and Mgmt - Carleton University

 

The Centre for Voluntary Sector Research and Development cordially invites
you to a presentation on...

Navigating Board-Staff Dynamics:

Leadership, Governance, & Management in the Voluntary/Non-profit Sector

 

 

Date:                Tuesday July 13th 2010

Time:               2:30 pm to 4:30 pm

Location:          Carleton University

1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa

Dunton Tower <http://www2.carleton.ca/campus/> , 20thFloor, Room 2017

 

This is a complimentary event; however, seating is limited so please RSVP
before July 5th via email at admin at cvsrd.org or 613 520 7444. 

 

Guest Speakers: 

Tracey Chadwick-Coule, Sheffield Business School, United Kingdom

Paula Speevak Sladowski, Centre for Voluntary Sector Research and
Development, Carleton University

 

Profile:

Tracey Chadwick-Coule is a senior research fellow in the Centre for
Individual and Organisational Development, Sheffield Business School, United
Kingdom. She has extensive experience of social research and policy analysis
within a voluntary sector context. Her doctoral research, undertaken in the
Centre for Voluntary Sector Research, focused on organisational
sustainability, strategy and governance in voluntary organisations, and the
intersection of the three domains. Tracey has an ongoing research interest
in board-staff relations and recently had a paper entitled, Social Dynamics
and the Strategy Process: Bridging or creating a divide between trustees and
staff?, published by the Sage journal, Non-profit & Voluntary Sector
Quarterly.

 

More broadly, Tracey has been involved in a number of significant
evaluations of third sector-related programs.  Most recently, the evaluation
of Futurebuilders - a central government policy aimed at increasing the
capacity of third sector organizations to deliver public services.    

 

For a full list of publications please visit:
www.shu.ac.uk/sbs/research/organisational-development/sp_tracey_coule.html 

 

Paula Speevak Sladowski is the Managing Director of Carleton University's
Centre for Voluntary Sector Research and Development. The centre's focus in
linking research to practice and policy and building the capacity of the
non-profit and voluntary sector to more fully participate in public policy
dialogue. She has managed a number of projects including the Voluntary
Sector Evaluation Research Project, The Policy Internships and Fellowships
Program, and The Charities File (A Pan-Canadian Training Program for Canada
Charities), and teaches undergraduate and graduate-level courses in
non-profit management and governance. 

 

Most recently, Paula served as co-investigator for a research study with
Volunteer Ottawa to explore the impact of the relationship between Executive
Directors and boards of directors on organizational stability. In 2006, she
co-authored The National Study of Board Governance Practices in the
Non-Profit and Voluntary Sector in Canada with Strategic Leverage Partners,
which gathered baseline data about board compositions, committee structures,
decision-making mechanisms, risk management practices, and leadership
issues. 

 

Other research studies that Paula has co-authored include Setting the Table
for a Strong Voluntary Sector in Ontario (with Susan Carter in January
2007), and An Inventory of Initiative, Programs, and Policies that Drive the
Communities Agenda in Canada (with Emily Hayes in February 2007). 

 

Prior to coming to the university, Paula enjoyed a 24-year career as a
practitioner and senior manager in the non-profit and voluntary sector in
both institutional and community-based settings, in Montreal, Ottawa, and on
pan-Canadian initiatives, and holds a Master of Management Degree from
McGill University from The McGill-McConnell Program for National Voluntary
Sector.

 

For a full list of publications please visit www.cvsrd.org 

 

 

Regards, Sandra Jones

 

Centre for Voluntary Sector Research and Development

Carleton University

1125 Colonel By Drive

Dunton Tower, Room 2020

Ottawa, Ontario, K1S 5B6

Tel.: 613-520-7444

Fax: 613-520-7488

www.cvsrd.org <http://www.cvsrd.org/> 

 

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