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Research Reports
CEO Chair Partnership: Built By Design
August 4, 2026
A research-based guide that examines how CEOs and board chairs can build strong leadership partnerships through intentional relationship design, clear governance practices, and shared commitment to mission. Drawing on insights from 45 association CEOs, the report provides practical frameworks for strengthening trust, decision-making, and board effectiveness.
Leadership Instrument
Board Agenda Design Map
July 26, 2026
A practical meeting design tool that helps CEOs and board chairs create more engaging, productive, and strategic board meetings. By focusing on purpose, participation, facilitation, decision-making, and follow-through, the tool helps boards maximize their time and contribution.
Leadership Instrument
Strategic Abandonment Framework for Boards
July 26, 2026
A practical governance tool that helps boards assess programs, services, initiatives, and investments through a structured stewardship process. By identifying what is leading, lagging, and consuming disproportionate capacity, leaders can redirect resources toward higher-impact opportunities and innovation.
Leadership Instrument
Emerging Issues Signal Scan
July 26, 2026
A practical foresight tool that helps CEOs and board chairs identify emerging trends, test assumptions, and bring future-focused thinking into board discussions. By scanning for opportunities, threats, and shifts across society, the profession, and the organization, boards can better prepare for what’s coming next.
Leadership Instrument
Board Agenda Risk Lens
July 26, 2026
A practical governance tool that helps CEOs and board chairs assess the operational, financial, reputational, strategic, and governance implications of board agenda items. By making risk visible and explicit, it supports stronger discussion, better questions, and clearer board direction.
Leadership Instrument
CEO Chair Annual Alignment Conversation Guide
July 26, 2026
A practical leadership guide that helps CEOs and board chairs align expectations, strengthen their working relationship, clarify roles, and establish communication rhythms that support effective governance and organizational success. Through structured conversations and planning templates, the guide creates a foundation for a strong leadership partnership throughout the board year.
Research Reports
Intention in Action: Building a Culture of Leadership on Your Board
March 8, 2026
Nonprofit associations operate at the intersection of mission and complexity, navigating shifting member expectations, volatile policy landscapes, and the enduring challenge of sustaining strong volunteer leadership. In this environment, the quality of a board’s governance has never mattered more. Yet one of the most consequential dimensions of board effectiveness remains chronically underinvested: culture.
Research Reports
Board Preparedness: Ready to Lead from Day 1
December 26, 2025
In the dynamic realm of association governance, the composition of the boardroom is in constant flux—new members join, seasoned ones depart, and the board renews itself cyclically. This perpetual transformation brings forth not just challenges but also rich opportunities for organizational growth and strategic development. With each changing term, there emerges a renewed potential for associations to harness the varied experiences and insights that new directors bring to the table. However, this potential can only be realized through deliberate and strategic board member preparation—hence the critical nature of board orientation and development.
Podcast
Curiosity, Clarity, and Courage with Lowell Aplebaum
August 5, 2025
If you’re a leader navigating change, shifting expectations, or questions about your organization’s identity and future, this episode of the Leading Learning Podcast is for you. It features Lowell Aplebaum, CEO of Vista Cova. Lowell works with association leaders and boards on visioning, governance, and strategy—and he brings a thoughtful, deeply human approach to the challenges facing organizations today.
Podcast
Fostering Inclusion and Growth: Mentorship, Networking, and Workforce Development in Associations
October 24, 2024
In this episode of Associations NOW Presents, guest host Lowell Aplebaum, continues the conversation on workforce development in the association space.
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