Are you ready to take your organization from being good to being truly great? Strengthen your leadership skills by learning the essential elements of strategic planning, based largely on Jim Collins' best-selling work "Good to Great and the Social Sectors." A copy of Collin's book is included in your registration cost. You will be exposed to new concepts and tools including the Hedgehog Model of mission, Level 5 Leadership, inputs and outcomes of excellence, and more. And you will learn how to create and execute on a clear mission, vision, and core values to guide your nonprofit organization and how to use organizational assessment, priority-setting, goals, and objectives as powerful tools.
From Good to Great: Planning for Excellence
Speaker Matt Kouri
Executive Director Greenlights Matt Kouri is the Executive Director of Greenlights for NonProfit Success where he leads the organization’s efforts to strengthen Central Texas through extraordinary nonprofit performance, consults directly with a number of nonprofits, and develops leading-edge research and best practices in nonprofit management. Matt joined Greenlights in 2007 ...
Executive Director
Greenlights
Matt Kouri is the Executive Director of Greenlights for NonProfit Success where he leads the organization’s efforts to strengthen Central Texas through extraordinary nonprofit performance, consults directly with a number of nonprofits, and develops leading-edge research and best practices in nonprofit management.
Matt joined Greenlights in 2007 after spending more than 11 years working to improve the public and nonprofit sectors in Austin and across the country. Matt most recently worked as a Senior Manager with Deloitte Consulting’s Austin office where he helped to lead a management consulting practice focused on serving nonprofit and governmental clients. While with Deloitte, he launched a K-12 education nonprofit in Dallas, oversaw transformations of two state Medicaid programs, and guided the largest government agency consolidation in Texas history.
Prior to Deloitte, Matt worked on educational policy issues for the Chicago Public School System. Matt’s expertise spans a number of functional areas, including board governance, organizational assessment and improvement, strategic planning and execution, financial and operational management, human capital talent development, leadership development and coaching, technology adoption, and K-12 educational achievement. Matt is personally passionate about orphans and adoption (he and his wife adopted two boys from Russia), mentoring teenagers, and living out his faith through his work.
Matt is a published author and speaker on community engagement, generational leadership, and health and human services program transformation. He also serves as board president of Austin LifeCare, serves on the advisory board of Austin’s Campaign for Philanthropy, and regularly works with the Kiwanis youth leadership development program.
Matt holds an MBA and a Master of Public Policy degree from the University of Chicago and an undergraduate degree in economics from Oklahoma State University. Matt and his wife and two sons attend Grace Covenant Church where they lead an orphan and adoption ministry and serve as youth group leaders.
Matt joined Greenlights in 2007 after spending more than 11 years working to improve the public and nonprofit sectors in Austin and across the country. Matt most recently worked as a Senior Manager with Deloitte Consulting’s Austin office where he helped to lead a management consulting practice focused on serving nonprofit and governmental clients. While with Deloitte, he launched a K-12 education nonprofit in Dallas, oversaw transformations of two state Medicaid programs, and guided the largest government agency consolidation in Texas history.
Prior to Deloitte, Matt worked on educational policy issues for the Chicago Public School System. Matt’s expertise spans a number of functional areas, including board governance, organizational assessment and improvement, strategic planning and execution, financial and operational management, human capital talent development, leadership development and coaching, technology adoption, and K-12 educational achievement. Matt is personally passionate about orphans and adoption (he and his wife adopted two boys from Russia), mentoring teenagers, and living out his faith through his work.
Matt is a published author and speaker on community engagement, generational leadership, and health and human services program transformation. He also serves as board president of Austin LifeCare, serves on the advisory board of Austin’s Campaign for Philanthropy, and regularly works with the Kiwanis youth leadership development program.
Matt holds an MBA and a Master of Public Policy degree from the University of Chicago and an undergraduate degree in economics from Oklahoma State University. Matt and his wife and two sons attend Grace Covenant Church where they lead an orphan and adoption ministry and serve as youth group leaders.
Organizer Julie Macalik
When?
Friday, Jun. 4, 2010
8:30 a.m. - noon US/Central
Where?
Greenlights
7703 N. Lamar
Austin, TX 78752