We assess and design governance processes to enable future-focused mission impact – whether for boards, committees, components, or other groups.
Facilitation Design & Leadership
Whether helping a field define its future, navigating difficult dialogue among stakeholders, or empowering internal teams to find clarity and alignment, Vista Cova brings deep expertise in designing and leading high-stakes, high-engagement facilitated experiences.
We also train staff, volunteer leaders, and executives to build their own facilitation capacity—because the ability to guide meaningful conversation is one of the most powerful tools in a leader’s toolkit.
Facilitation done right is a stone entering a lake — the ripples of which will be felt for time to come and far beyond the horizon of what you can see in the moment.
—Lowell Aplebaum, CEO
Facilitation Events
I've been to many planning sessions and Lowell's facilitation skills and ability to lead a group are exceptional!
Identifying and cultivating future leaders is not just a strategy; it’s a necessity in association governance. A strong leadership pipeline ensures that your organization remains resilient and adaptable, equipped to meet both current challenges and future opportunities.
Joining a board can be both exciting and overwhelming. Here are a few tips to help ensure a smooth transition and effective integration of new and returning members within the board.
Setting Your Board Up for Success delves into the essential steps for giving leaders the tools they need to thrive before, during, and after they become board members.
Anniversaries give us the opportunity to reflect on the journey that has taken us to this moment, all those who have supported us on the way, and then look up and ahead to what may come next.
We explore the implications to volunteerism and our governance structures as individuals and organizations are carefully looking at where time is spent and opting out of those things where they do not perceive value.
Over October 4 – 6, 2022 there will be a conference that “empowers association leaders to face today’s most critical issues.” I will not be attending. And the reason why frustrates me just as much as missing the event.
The challenge we currently face is one of leaders who have just come out of a period of crisis response where executive committees have been expected to engage in a different type of rapid, frequent decision making for the organization.
Over the course of a pandemic, workforce disruption, political discord, race relations, and more, we have seen organizations who shifted from a single, reactive response to a proactive scenario planning approach were better situated to navigate these rocky waters.
