02/10/2025

Boards Need Greater Agility

One governance expert shares what today's board looks like

Faster.

If there's one word that summarizes what association governance requires now, it's that. Associations have been pressed to respond to a pandemic, inflation, workforce shortages and a quick-acting White House that’s undone a lot of business-as-usual processes.

"CEOs and board chairs/presidents have to be much more agile," said Jay Younger, FASAE, President & CEO at McKinley Advisors. "They have to be much more willing to introduce risk into their operating environments. They can't simply send things out to committee and have committees study them for a year or 18 months and come back with recommendations. When something happens that is front-page news or incendiary within their industry or their profession, you don't have the luxury to noodle on things."

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