CEO Notebook

CEO Notebook  

  • Membership
  • | Planning

NBOA’s New Strategy Begins and Ends With You

Member insights were crucial in developing NBOA’s new strategic framework – and we’ll need your feedback today and going forward to assess its progress.
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  • Budget
  • | Change Management
  • | Leadership

Low-Cost, High-Impact Innovation

As we move away from the forced changes of pandemic years and into intentional innovation, consider a few low- to no-cost efforts successfully undertaken by colleges and universities.
5 min read

CEO Notebook  

  • Membership

Building a Member-Centric Website

We’ve completely overhauled NBOA.org to make it easier for our members to use and engage.
3 min read

CEO Notebook  

  • Leadership

What Wonder Woman and Workplace Assessment Have in Common

Wonder Woman had a complex personality. So might you — and that perspective can help you as an independent school leader.
5 min read

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World Conflict and the Workplace

Global events, like the war in Ukraine, are impacting our workplace, even if the conflict is many thousands of miles away.
4 min read

CEO Notebook  

  • Human Resources
  • | Leadership

Key Questions To Combat the Great Resignation at Your School

A deep understanding of your school’s talent pool is a competitive advantage.
5 min read

CEO Notebook  

  • Leadership

Announcing the 2022 NBOA Innovation Excellence Award Recipients

The selected schools have demonstrated creative new ways to approach maker spaces, endowments and a multi-campus business model.
4 min read

CEO Notebook  

  • Research

A New Collaborative Chapter for BIIS Illuminates the Path Forward

Last year’s collaboration between NAIS and NBOA has resulted in this year’s exceptionally robust set of clean financial and operations data in BIIS.
4 min read

CEO Notebook  

  • Leadership

When To Think Inside the Box

School business leaders can take a page out of improv actors’ rule book to generate creative solutions.
5 min read

CEO Notebook  

  • Leadership

Pause To Celebrate 2021’s Successes

Your school’s extraordinary efforts have made an extraordinary impact on your school community.
4 min read

CEO Notebook  

  • Leadership

Lessons from a Musical Genius

Three takeaways from Stephen Sondheim’s storied career can help independent schools face another challenging year — with verve.
5 min read

CEO Notebook  

  • Human Resources
  • | Leadership

The Hybrid Business Office Requires Candor and Care

Remote work isn’t in itself an obstacle to building trust among colleagues, but strong results require intentional bridge-building.
4 min read

CEO Notebook  

  • Leadership

Data Collection Made Easier

Collaboration between NBOA and NAIS will yield new insights that will help all schools plan strategically.
3 min read

CEO Notebook  

  • Leadership

Every Kind of Leader Has a (Correctable) Blind Spot

Whatever your greatest leadership strength is, it can become a liability — that with sufficient attention, you can correct for and bolster.
4 min read

CEO Notebook  

  • Diversity and Inclusion
  • | Leadership

When Politics Knocks, Answer with Mission

Our schools’ missions and values are being put to the test. They should be our guide as we navigate contentious times. 
4 min read

CEO Notebook  

  • Leadership

Collective Effervescence

We have been missing something in our professional development that I am hopeful we can now reclaim, with the appropriate precautions.
4 min read

CEO Notebook  

  • Leadership

A Long View on Leadership

Our schools will need strong business office leadership far beyond our current crises.
4 min read

CEO Notebook  

  • Leadership

The Future of Virtual Governance

We would do well to continue some aspects of digital meetings developed earlier in the pandemic — but not all of them.
4 min read

CEO Notebook  

  • Leadership

Burnout Is a Problem. Collaboration May Be the Answer.

We are facing another tenuous school year with the spread of the Delta variant, but we can lean on each other for support — and new ideas — to help our schools thrive. 
4 min read

CEO Notebook  

  • Diversity and Inclusion
  • | Hiring
  • | Performance Management

3 “Reset” Opportunities for Business Officers

Recruitment and retention efforts are vital in a hot labor market.
4 min read

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