Board Workshop Series
Olio's Board Workshops are designed to help boards build, not just manage, their organizations. We use Human-Centered Design to provide a focused space for generating creative, mission-driven ideas that lead to tangible outcomes.
at a Glance
| Duration: | Kickstarter (2 hours) vs. Half-Day (4 hours) |
| Best for: | Board members looking to move beyond the status quo to co-create a culture that is collaborative, purposeful, and accountable. |
| Benefits: | Our workshops give your board the tools to craft their own solutions and build a sustainable vision for the future. |
Workshop Options
Choose the topic that fits your board's needs:
Your Board's Role in Fundraising: Build confidence and practice skills for engaging with donors.
Prototyping a Culture of Engagement:
Co-create new practices to improve participation and accountability.
Ideating for Impact in the Next Five Years: Spark visionary thinking and generate ideas to inform strategic planning.
Co-Designing Your Board Experience: Collaboratively design a more effective, inclusive, and engaging experience for your board.
Overview: Why A Workshop Series?
Human-Centered Design can help your board go from managing the organization to truly building it. This workshop series helps you solve the right problems by using processes grounded in direct feedback from leaders and key stakeholders. By moving beyond traditional lecture formats, you build your board's capacity from the inside out.
What to Expect: Human-Centered Approach
Each session is a hands-on experience that empowers your board to collaboratively design more effective, inclusive, and engaging practices. Each agenda item introduces something new your board can utilize and recycle over time.
Key Activities: We'll guide you through a series of exercises, including empathy mapping, interactive data review, and collaborative prototyping.
How We Do It: We use a process rooted in inclusive co-creation, encouraging empathy-driven problem-solving and an iterative approach to growth and change.
Outcome: You'll leave with a set of tools and an action plan for sustainable change.
Example Takeaways
Depending on the workshop topic, participants will walk away with a differing set of tools and action plans for sustainable change, such as:
A personal value proposition for fundraising.
A co-developed board charter with new engagement practices.
Refined concepts for key opportunities to inform future strategic planning.