Featured Speaker: Gerry Czarnecki (National Leadership Institute, Deltennium Group)

Creating and fulfilling a strategic plan is absolutely essential for a healthy nonprofit. It sets priorities, focuses resources and energy, and helps the staff, board and other stakeholders work smoothly together toward agreed upon goals. In this session, National Leadership Institute Founder Gerry Czarnecki explores key elements of a strategic plan, including who does what and when, along with common best practices.

About the presenter: Gerry Czarnecki, Chairman & Founder, National Leadership Institute, and CEO, Deltennium Group, is a sought-after national consultant with an unbridled passion for giving back to the nonprofit world. A self-described “governance junkie,” Gerry has served on more than 50 international, national and local nonprofit boards, including United Way, The Nature Conservancy and Junior Achievement Worldwide. Pulling from a successful C-Suite career, plus extensive corporate and nonprofit board consulting, he’s written seven books on leadership and board governance. Because he believes in running nonprofits like businesses, in 2005 he founded National Leadership Institute, a 501(c)(3) dedicated to improving board governance, leadership development and contemporary fundraising training.

He has spoken at conferences across the U.S, and continues a diverse, successful C-suite career, spanning industries from banking to retail to television production. He is also the current Chairman and CEO of The Deltennium Group, Inc. a consulting practice helping individuals and organizations with board governance, effective strategic marketing, and managerial leadership.

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Suggested for: executive, development, programming/events, board of directors

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