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3rd Jul, 2019

Cooperative Board Leadership Development Program (CBLD)

By |2023-10-31T16:34:42-04:00July 3rd, 2019|

It’s Time to Enroll in CBLD 2024! Early Bird Enrollment Now Open Our Cooperative Board Leadership Development (CBLD) team is looking ahead to another great year of supporting your organization’s success through our award-winning CBLD program. Now in its 20th year, CBLD provides an annual program of board support that includes monthly consulting, facilitated board retreats, a wealth of online webinars [...]

29th Jul, 2010

Building a Successful Board-GM Relationship

By |2023-05-05T20:21:43-04:00July 29th, 2010|

Presented by Art Sherwood & Todd Wallace CBLD Board Consultants   Panelists Amy Holt - Board President Lexington Co-op Market Buffalo, NY Rose Marie Klee - Board President Wheatsville Food Co-op Austin, TX George Huntington - GM Bloomingfoods Bloomington, IN Lori Burge - Development Mgr. People's Food Co-op Portland, OR    

14th Apr, 2022

Art Sherwood Reimagines the Strategic Planning Process

By |2023-05-05T20:05:14-04:00April 14th, 2022|

After seeing how the co-op world has shifted away from in-person events during the pandemic, Columinate consultant and leadership strategist Art Sherwood wants to leverage the lessons he learned over the last two years to help co-op general managers be more strategic about multi-year planning. Sherwood has recently launched the Cooperative Strategic Leadership (CSL) program, an annual subscription course that utilizes different modalities to help co-op leaders build practical plans that are meant to be put into action every day.

10th Oct, 2022

Governance for Co-op and Nonprofit Boards Part 2

By |2023-05-05T20:04:49-04:00October 10th, 2022|

In 2014, Columinate introduced co-ops to the Four Pillars of Governance in an effort to show how the Policy Governance model fits in a broader framework of governance. As part of his work as a Visiting Scholar at the Vincent and Elinor Ostrom Workshop on Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Art Sherwood collaborated with Marilyn Scholl and others from Columinate to create this model to help organizations govern flexibly and effectively. A model is a way of framing so that the parts and processes make sense. Our Four Pillars model is not about changing systems but is a new way of making sense of governance. In the eight years since we introduced it, we have found that it helps organize board thinking about the complex task of governance. It does not supplant other theories or systems of governance, but rather provides a framework for boards to use in developing and applying those systems.

2nd Jun, 2017

Making Smarter Strategic Decisions through Board Engagement with Owners

By |2023-05-05T20:06:24-04:00June 2nd, 2017|

When boards and management make decisions with the long game of co-op impact in mind, a powerful relationship with owners can develop. Strategic decision-making can be an opportunity to build a strong, participatory co-op culture that understands that the leadership is obliged, by virtue of its fiduciary responsibility, to make decisions to benefit the co-op and accordingly, its owners. Owners typically have high expectations [...]

22nd Dec, 2015

Boycotts and Democracy – The Eden Foods Product Boycott as an Opportunity to Renew Co-op Participation and Democracy

By |2023-05-05T20:29:20-04:00December 22nd, 2015|

By Todd Wallace In the summer of 2014, a Supreme Court ruling in the case of Burwell vs. Hobby Lobby led the CEO of Eden Foods, a prominent organic foods producer, to revive an earlier 2013 court case arguing that the company be exempted from paying for its employees to receive birth-control, as required by the Affordable Care Act. The company’s lawyers cited the [...]

1st May, 2014

Articulate Co-op Purpose and Meaning through Strategic Leadership

By |2023-05-05T20:30:10-04:00May 1st, 2014|

What would happen if everyone in a whole community understood their role in achieving a common purpose? It’s not hard to imagine that lots of really positive things could be accomplished, some of them beyond our wildest dreams. That’s why it is critical to the success of a cooperative that everyone has a role in determining the co-op’s future. One of the fundamental differences [...]

15th Jul, 2011

Cooperative Strategic Leadership Article

By |2023-05-05T20:34:36-04:00July 15th, 2011|

By Art Sherwood 157 November - December - 2011 There has been much discussion, debate and downright argument about the role of the board in the strategic process of our co-ops. "Isn't that getting into operations? Aren't our hands tied by our governance system? Isn't "strategy" a taboo word to raise in the board room since that is supposed to be the general manager's [...]

10th Jan, 2022

Strategic Planning Processes During the Pandemic

By |2023-05-05T20:05:28-04:00January 10th, 2022|

The global pandemic has dramatically altered how grocery retailers approach all aspects of their business. As retail staff have turned much of their focus to daily operations to ensure their stores are staffed, stocked, and safe, formalized processes for strategic planning have taken a back seat for many leaders. But now is not the time to proceed without a plan.

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