EO Chairs: Change, Portfolio, Regional:

Chairs represent the interests and health of the entire organization through their leadership of focused project teams as well as their collaboration with their peers. The Leader partners with a staff leader counterpart to craft and drive the strategy for their specific area to achieve short term gains, sustainability and consistency in core offerings and position the offering for innovation over the long term.

Critical roles for Member Leaders in these roles include:

Collaboration: Through participation in the calls and meetings with their fellow Chairs, identifies areas for collaboration across

functional areas with a view to maximizing impact across the organization

Approval/Oversight: Support in vendor acquisition, trainer selection, program participant selection, continuous improvement within existing programs.

Communications: Difficult conversations with members/escalated issues, program changes and member marketing.

Region and chapter leader support: Chapter officer support, Chapter Board support, Expert training and support.

Brainstorming and planning: content ideas

AREA DIRECTOR MISSION

The Area Director (AD) acts as the prime resource to support a group of Chapter Presidents in an assigned area.

GROWTH DIRECTOR MISSION

The Growth Director is responsible for implementing regional growth strategies that are aligned with the region’s annual execution plan and the organization’s six strategic priorities. The Growth Director helps drive EO’s membership growth by leveraging the Membership Recruitment, Member Engagement, Chapter Launches, and Accelerator programs in the respective region. The Growth Director reports to the Regional Director, liaises with the Global Membership Committee, Member Engagement Committee, and Accelerator Subcommittee, seeks guidance and communicates regularly with the Area Directors, suggests the deployment of Experts to committees, chapters and staff as subject matter experts. The Growth Director is the strategic mind for growth within their region and collaborates with the necessary committees for EO’s sustainable growth.

The Member Engagement Director's role is to help RETAIN our members in EO.

Member Experience Director Mission:

The Member Experience Director implements strategies to enhance the EO experience for members, prospective members and other stakeholders in the entrepreneurial ecosystem that are aligned with the region’s annual execution plan and the organization’s strategic priorities. Their focus is on enhancing member engagement within EO and greater awareness and recognition for EO within the broader entrepreneurial ecosystem. This Director achieves this by mainly leveraging the Communications experts (also known as Internal and External Awareness experts), External Relationships expert, Strategic Alliances expert, and GSEA expert in their region. The Member Experience Director reports to the Regional Council Chair, liaises with the appropriate functional areas to seek guidance and communicates regularly with the Area Directors, Growth Director and Member Products Director and suggests the deployment of experts to functional teams, chapters and staff as subject matter experts.

Member Products Director Mission:

The Member Products Director is responsible for implementing regional product development and execution strategies that are aligned with the region’s annual execution plan and the organization’s strategic priorities. The Member Products Director will empower members to learn and grow within their region by supporting and overseeing Learning, Forum, MyEO, Events, Leadership and Mentorship products. This role reports to the Regional Director, liaises with Learning, Forum, MyEO and Leadership functional areas, seeks guidance and communicates regularly with the Area Directors, suggests the deployment of Experts to projects, chapters and staff as subject matter experts.

Governance Committee Mission:

To foster a community of trust, transparency and accountability. To align the entrepreneurial spirit with EO’s core values, thereby, supporting the framework to accomplish EO’s vision.

Description:

The Governance Committee is comprised of a minimum of 10 Governance Directors, one Regional Governance Director from each region and At-Large Governance Directors as needed. We meet once a month for a one-hour call and must be available for emergency meetings when required. We work on various projects to improve the governing structures of EO, train member leaders on good governance, and conduct votes on updating policies and violations of our code of conduct such as solicitation by a member or discrimination or harassment.

This role requires the ability to respond to and investigate complaints lodged by members, which almost always involve the conduct of another person. For any complaints involving sexual harassment, discrimination, or retaliation, we work with a third-party firm who will conduct the investigation while Governance Directors play more of a project management role. We also have in-house legal counsel and an outside law firm that provide guidance.

The Committee is a check and balance for the EO Board of Directors and is responsible for the Board’s adherence to EO’s governing documents. We also ensure the member vendor and conflict of interest policies are followed.

Standing Finance Committee Mission:

The Standing Finance Committee shall be responsible for the financial wellbeing of the Corporation which includes oversight of:

A. budgeting

B. financial reporting

C. internal financial controls

D. financial audit and tax compliance

E. all monies, securities and other assets of the corporation the committee advises and reports to the Board.