The CEO’s Voice Belongs in Board Self-assessments

Board self-assessments are among the most valuable tools associations can use to strengthen governance, improve effectiveness, and ensure the board is operating at its highest potential. Yet many organizations make a common and costly oversight: They exclude the CEO from contributing their insight to the process.

The reasoning is understandable on the surface. Many CEOs serve as ex-officio, non-voting members of the board. It can feel procedurally tidy to limit the assessment to those with voting authority.

But governance isn't just about voting. It’s about advancing organizational performance, which relies on a healthy board-staff partnership, effective leadership utilization and measuring whether the board is truly moving the association forward. On all those dimensions, the CEO has something essential to offer. 

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