[foundation-board] Update on Leadership Team development

Tue Jul 18 10:39:39 UTC 2017

Thanks for the update Pavel.

On 17 Jul 2017 8:35 pm, "Pavel Richter" <pavel.richter at okfn.org> wrote:

> Dear Members of the Board,
>
> last week, Mark, Paul and myself met in London for a moderated Leadership
> Team Meeting. Our main goal was to address a number of challenges that we
> have encountered as a team over the last several weeks and months. We also
> wanted to take stock at where we are as an organisation (in particular in
> terms of our mid-term outlook at fundraising).
>
> The discussion was intense, and at times also difficult and challenging.
> We discussed issues raised by Paul in his email to the board, and also took
> feedback that Garth had gathered from Board members and from staff into
> account. The spirit of the discussion was always forward-looking, always
> oriented towards concrete solutions and next steps.
>
> We will be providing more details as we develop the plan for the coming
> weeks and months, but we wanted to give you a quick update at where we are
> right now:
>
> We made the decision to focus the CEO role exclusively for the next 6
> months on building partnerships with CSOs, as well as with funders outside
> of our "Open Data" domain, with the goal to increase our fundraising
> significantly.
>
> We will have clear targets we want to reach, in terms of CSOs engaged, but
> also in funding signed. We are developing these targets at the moment.
>
> Mark will take over line management responsibilities from me (which right
> now is only Sander) for that period; the Capacity Team Sander is leading
> will also be moving under the Operations department of Mark.
>
> Paul will be developing a plan to pursue commercial opportunities (mainly
> outside of CKAN), both within OKI, but also with a strong focus on working
> together with Viderum on developing leads together. Paul will also take
> over the strategic guidance for OKFest to Natasha from me.
>
> In addition to these functional changes, of course everyone on the
> leadership team is aware that implementing this and executing on it will
> take the full commitment and dedication of all of us. What this means
> exactly for each of us individually is something that we are working
> through at the moment, and are confident to close out this week.
>
> We found the support by a leadership coach like Garth very helpful; we
> will be looking into getting a more continuous support in that regards as a
> team. We will need to develop a budget for this, which we will present to
> you asap.
>
> I will update you later this week with the success metrics around
> partnership building and fundraising, as well as with an outlook for when
> we will have a budget ready for your approval.
>
> In the meantime, please feel free to ask any questions you might have.
>
>
> Cheers,
>
>
> Pavel
>
> (I have asked Paul and Mark for their input and feedback on this email,
> which they both provided.)
>
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