7D Strategic awareness and conscious governance
Strategy without awareness is all too common in NFPs, resulting in organisations diverting resources from what matters most. The key is to create a culture of strategic awareness where board members and executives function form curiosity and possibility, develop skills in financial and risk analysis, and generate strategic futures that create true and meaningful impact effectively and efficiently?
- Creating a culture of conscious governance
- Why strategic awareness will always trump strategic plans
- Personal attributes that create strategic awareness
- How to structure the board and senior executive meetings to facilitate strategic awareness
- The relationship between community engagement and strategic awareness and how to exploit the relationship to achieve great things
Steve Bowman, Managing Director, Conscious Governance
Steven Bowman, Managing Director, Conscious Governance is an internationally recognized Governance, Strategy, Risk and Leadership advisor to nonprofit organisations worldwide. He has held CEO positions with major nonprofit organizations such as the Australasian Institute of Banking and Finance, the Finance and Treasury Association, CPA Australia, and has been a Director of the American College of Health Care Administrators. He is a past President of the Australian Society of Association Executives, has worked in the nonprofit sector for over 35 years, has a Masters degree in nonprofit management from the USA, and has held a number of Board positions internationally. He has personally worked with some of the most respected executive leaders globally, including Robert Joss, now Dean of Stanford Business School, the CEOs of major International Banks such as Wells Fargo Bank, the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Westpac, National Bank of Australia and ANZ Bank, and numerous other international corporate. He brings a unique perspective to his work that merges personal awareness with Board and executive level corporate skills.
He has worked with some of the worlds most experienced strategists, and has facilitated and taught strategic planning to many hundreds of nonprofit organizations, continually updating his methodology to encompass the best and most efficient strategic planning methods. His Strategic Board Evaluation techniques truly change the way Boards and Directors work, and his public education programs have been described by hundreds of nonprofit CEOs and Board directors as the most valuable professional development available in the nonprofit sector.
Steven has travelled the world providing key note addresses to conferences of CEOs and Board members. He pioneered the teaching of nonprofit management in Australia at the Monash/Mt Eliza Business School, one of the most prestigious business and MBA schools in the Southern Hemisphere, and taught there for 11 years. He has lectured at Monash University, Melbourne University, and Swinburne University and has written a number of articles published by these institutions on the subject of Strategy. He has been awarded the honor of Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and Fellow of the Corporate Law and Accountability Research Group at Monash University
He has consulted to a wide range of commercial, professional, trade, welfare, philanthropic and charitable organisations, and has authored or co-authored over 14 books on Governance and Executive Leadership. He currently works with over 1,000 Not for Profit and corporate organisations each year in Australia, New Zealand, USA and Asia in Governance, Executive Leadership and Strategic Awareness.
