About

The Executive Director’s Toolkit is a resource and gathering point for sharing among Association and NonProfit Executive Directors.

The Toolkit will explore real, sticky work challenges that Executive Directors face, and also look at the career cycle of an Executive Director and how to assess one’s place in it.  The goal, always, for Executive Directors is to be the best you can be where you are, while recognizing that you must be preparing for whatever comes next–whether that is with your current organization or a new one with a different set of challenges and opportunities.

The author and administrator of the Toolkit, Michael Bowers, has over 30 years experience in association and non-profit management, having served as Executive Director of a national/international professional association in the field of mental health (The American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy, AAMFT),  and as CEO of the American Physical Therapy Association. He provides consultation to Associations on strategic, programmatic, and operational issues, and coaching to Association Executives.