The Issaquah School Board has worked with The Aspen Group for a year now and I have found Linda and Randy's support to be invaluable. The attributes I find particularly beneficial are their real world experience and ability to provide applicable advice. There are many consultants that are well versed in theory, but I find The Aspen Group to be the best founded in practical application."

Mark Warner, former BOE president,
Issaquah, WA

We are board specialists. Excellent governance requires excellent and experienced guidance.


Between Aspen Group partners, we have spent more than 60 combined years working directly with boards to help them improve their performance. Our goal, whether the work is governance training or any of our other services,  is to serve the board by leading you in a path toward excellent governance, generating support and advocacy for organizational efforts, creating accountability extending from the board itself throughout the entire organization, all focused on outcomes. We believe there is a very direct and significant relationship between what happens--or doesn't happen-- in the boardroom and what happens--or not--throughout the organization. Our work centers on building board capacity to lead organizations without managing them. We can do that.
Our Objectives:
  • Meet your specific needs

  • Value and build long-term trust and relationships
      
  • Develop your leadership skills and improve your leadership team's performance

We have three basic objectives for each project we accept:
  1. Meet your unique needs. We carefully gain thorough insight into your specific challenges, concerns and issues, then design a process to address both surface and sub-surface issues within the context of your organizational culture.
  2. Value and build long-term trust and relationships. Time, money and morale are lost needlessly when organizations shift from one consultant and strategy to another. We work hard to help you find the success you expect and build long-term relationships that sustain continuous improvement.
  3. Develop your leadership skills and improve your leadership team's performance. The board is a governing team-either a winning team or a losing one. The board and its CEO are the leadership team, with the same options. Our objective is to develop both teams to their highest levels of effectiveness.

We make four fundamental commitments to our clients. We commit to:

  1. provide professional, practical, results-oriented training, facilitation and coaching
  2. provoke open, honest and frank discussion of your organization's deepest values
  3. challenge you to confront difficult performance issues and to rethink your role as individual leaders and as the collective team
  4. create with you a process to achieve excellence for your board, leadership team, and organization

     We enter into contracts only after a thorough discussion to determine that our skills and services are compatible with your needs.

    The Aspen Group International, LLC
     A Leadership Development Company
    P     . O. Box 1777 Castle Rock, CO 80104
    303.882.9888 or 303.478.0125 Fax: 208.247.6084
    email: aspen@aspengroup.org

    Serving Boards for more than 50 years
    Specializing in Coherent Governance and Policy Governance for     Governmental,
    Non-Profit and Corporate Boards

    Linda J. Dawson, Senior Partner and Dr. Randy Quinn, Senior Partner
© Copyright 2006,
Aspen Group
International, LLC.
All rights reserved.