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Welcome: Building Board Belonging is a powerful, free masterclass designed to equip board leaders with practical tools to ensure every new board member feels seen, supported, and set up to lead.
This interactive 2-hour experience introduces a research-informed, asset-based approach to onboarding using our original 8-Point Welcome Framework.
Belonging on a board isn’t just about having a seat—it’s about being the piece that fits, completes, and strengthens the whole. Too often, new board members walk into unfamiliar spaces with no roadmap, little context, and unspoken cultural norms.
The result? Missed potential, disengagement, and turnover.
When individuals from historically excluded communities are welcomed into leadership spaces where they can show up fully and authentically, boards become more reflective, responsive, and resilient.
At The Eight Effect, we help cultivate cultures of belonging—where every member knows they are not just invited in, but essential. That’s how we move from representation to transformation—and from checking boxes to changing systems.
Welcome: Building Board Belonging
When board members feel like they truly belong, everything shifts—they lead more boldly, stay more committed, and bring their whole selves to the table. Belonging isn’t a bonus; it’s the foundation for effective, values-aligned leadership. If we want boards that reflect our communities and live our missions out loud, we must be intentional about the culture we’re creating from day one.
This workshop is designed for Board Chairs, Governance Committee Leaders, Executive Directors, and nonprofit changemakers ready to move beyond recruitment and into retention, engagement, and transformation.
🧭 What You’ll Learn:
How board culture impacts new member engagement and retention
Practical ways to interrupt tokenism and build psychological safety
🛠️ What You’ll Receive:
The 8-Point Welcome Framework—a strategic tool to ensure new members feel like they fit and belong
A customizable Welcome Plan Template you can tailor to your board’s unique dynamics
Time and space for reflection, feedback, and peer learning—because you’re not in this alone
Let’s build boards where everyone has a place, a purpose, and the power to lead.
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