CDS Consulting Co-op supports and strengthens cooperative governance and management with consultation, training, facilitation and coaching to build organizational alignment and enhance the working relationship between board and management.
After many years of providing cooperative board leadership development training, our consultants, right, founded the successful Cooperative Board Leadership Development (CBLD) program in the fall of 2004. CBLD is focused on the continual improvement of food co-op boards. Support, training, and facilitation are built into an integrated system to enhance effective governance and co-op development.
Find out more about the CBLD program
Our focus is to provide excellent service to each co-op client and to produce new resources that will help all of our CBLD clients address common issues efficiently and effectively.
Products and Services
- Policy Governance® (though it is not a requirement of ours that your board use this system)
- Board Training and Development
- Facilitation and Planning of Meetings and Retreats
- Board Assessment
- Team Building and Communications
- Board/Management Relationship Development
CBLD Program
CBLD is a calendar-year program designed to assist your board all year long. For more information, contact Team Leader Mark Goehring: MarkGoehring@cdsconsulting.coop
CBLD Library
The CBLD Library provides a wide variety of resources for excellence in governance.
Associated Consultants
Other Resources
For more information on Policy Governance, visit www.carvergovernance.com
Articles in Cooperative Grocer and Other Publications
September-October 2008
January-February 2010
January - February 2010
#140 January - February - 2009
November-December 2009
September-October 2005.
January-February 2005
March-April 2005
January-February 2004
March-April 1996
A Cooperative Board Leadership Development (CBLD) project, Fall 2009
May-June 2005
September-October 2003
Cooperative Business Journal. January/February 2003
#083 July - August _ 1999. With David Fowle
November-December 2001
July-August 2009
January-February 2004
#112 May - June - 2004
# 151 November December 2010
#102 September - October - 2002
November-December 2008.
May-June 2006
July-August 2005
