Governance101

Consulting for governing effectiveness with Boards of all types: Non-profit (whose stakeholders include donors and recipients whose interests the non-profit is designed to serve), Government (whose stakeholders include residents of a geographic political subdivision), Corporate (whose stakeholders include paying stockholders), and Association (whose stakeholders include dues-paying members).

• For general governance principles, using principles found in the A Framework for School Governance: governance101.com

Policy Governance Associates

In addition to general consultation applicable to all boards, Policy Governance Associates is prepared to assist boards that are interested in learning about the Policy Governance (R) model of John Carver and the Coherent Governance (R) model of Randy Quinn and Linda Dawson.

• For assistance with the Policy Governance (R) model: policy.governance101.com
• For assistance with the Coherent Governance (R) model: coherent.governance101.com

 

Bob Hughes		Rick Maloney
	Bob Hughes		Rick Maloney
Bob Hughes served 30 years on the board of the Lake Washington School District in Redmond, Washington, and was President 4 times. A graduate of the Carver Policy Governance Academy and a former board member for the Washington State School Directors Association, Bob is now a member of the Washington State Board of Education. He has helped a variety of boards, including profit and non-profit, explore and adopt the policy governance model, enhancing organizational effectiveness by paying attention to board business. Bob is a regular invited lecturer on policy governance for nonprofits on behalf of the Executive Service Corps of Washington.		Rick Maloney served more than 20 years on the school board in University Place, Washington, having served 8 terms as President. He also served for 9 years as a board member for the Washington State School Directors' Association. Since 1979 he has consulted in organization development with a wide variety of organizations. Rick led the development, adoption and implementation of Policy Governance (R) in his district from 2001 to 2015, has published numerous articles and given many presentations about the model at state and national or international conferences.
A graduate of Western Washington University, Bob was employed by The Boeing Company, Seattle, Washington for 31 years (now retired), serving as Corporate Director of Education Relations, General Manager of Programming Services and General Manager of Professional Software Products. For two years before retirement he served in the capacity of a loaned executive, reporting directly to Dr. Judith Billings, Washington State's Superintendent of Public Instruction. His role was to assist in the development of a state-wide educational technology plan.		A graduate of the US Military Academy at West Point, Rick was an Army Engineer in his first career, leading organizations as commander and in various staff capacities, including human resource management, information technology, logistics management, and engineering. His second career was in teaching and administration. Although he has built bridges, climbed mountains, rappelled from helicopters, and jumped from airplanes, all-in-all he considers a 28-student 8th grade pre-algebra class to be one of life's bigger challenges.
In 1986, Bob was asked by a business group, The Washington Roundtable, to assist them in their efforts to encourage the installation and use of educational technology in schools. Serving as a loaned executive and acting as a liaison between the business and educational community, Mr. Hughes has become an invited speaker at more than 600 workshops and conferences, organizing nine major conferences and lobbying legislators for both educational and technology reform.		Rick holds a doctorate in education from the University of Southern California and a teaching certificate from Pacific Lutheran University with endorsements in mathematics, physics, English, and psychology. He has teaching experience in public, private and parochial schools at the elementary, middle, and high school levels, and admin experience at the state and district levels in the areas of professional education, certification, professional development, recruitment and teacher advancement.
During this period he also served as a member of the Washington Roundtable's Working Committee on Education, a board member for both the Washington State School Directors Association and the California based Autodesk Education Foundation. In 1989 and in recognition of his work in education, the then Governor Booth Gardner named Bob to Chair his Advisory Council on Advanced Technology in Schools, while the Washington Association of School Administrators awarded him their Golden Gavel.		While a school board member, he also served for nine years for the state school directors' association on its board of directors, was elected twice to serve on its executive committee, and developed a model superintendent evaluation process (outcomes-based superintendent evaluation) for boards throughout the state. He also helped the association's board develop its system for executive director evaluation.
Bob's interest is in helping boards understand, then define, the distinction between board business and staff business. Drawing that line is a board responsibility. While delegation to staff is necessary, once the board has decided what the board's business is, it is the one thing that cannot be delegated.		Rick enjoys working with boards that want to govern their organizations by focusing on what boards do best, representing their communities' interests and holding the organization accountable, while avoiding the temptation, as part-time board members, to try the impossible task of out-managing their full-time staff.
Bob and Rick as a team support boards and their CEO's as they explore, adapt, and maintain the policy governance model. They have provided presentations at national and international conferences, and have lectured on the board-superintendent relationship in support of Western Washington University and Seattle University superintendent candidates. They want to help boards answer the question "Who's in charge?" (the board is) while avoiding the self-destructive urge to compete with their own staff at doing staff work.