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Community Health Center Board Symposium

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Time: 9:00 - 11:00 am
Description

To join, please use the following link:
https://massleague.zoom.us/j/99287941159

Facilitated by Susan Decker, Governance Consultant.

Susan Decker is a governance consultant. In addition to serving her own clients across the county, Susan serves as a BoardSource senior governance consultant. She has more than 20 years of nonprofit management and leadership experience, currently working with nonprofit organizations on exceptional governance practices, fundraising, board development to increase engagement, and strategic planning. In the health center world, she has worked with various health centers and with a Primary Care Association. She also frequently trains new governance trainers.

Additionally, Susan as the director of the Master of Leadership Development program at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College, working with financial, nonprofit, and organizational professionals in their educational journey of developing and expanding their leadership skills.

For more than ten years, Susan worked with two of the country’s most recognized public charities; St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation. At St. Jude, she served as executive director of field operations, with fundraising responsibility and oversight of $150 million and a staff of 200. Her work also extended to guiding the local boards and assisting with the professional advisory board and the sports council. In her role at Komen, she served as the national director of the affiliate network, where she was responsible for the governance training and compliance of more than 100 local governing boards. She additionally served as the national director of the Race for the Cure, the world's largest 5K run/walk series, with fundraising oversight for the affiliate field. Susan has worked with client organizations that have a diversity of missions, sizes, and geographic scopes. She worked collaboratively with the board and staff to facilitate growth opportunities for the organization.

Susan currently serves as chair of the governance committee and vice-chair of a foundation board.