Mark Goehring
Phone: 802-380-3824
Fax: 206-350-6418
MarkGoehring@cdsconsulting.coop

Mark Goehring is part of the CDS Consulting Co-op’s Leadership Team, providing boards across the country with consultation, training and facilitation.

Mark can help you with:

• Leadership development
• Board training and development
• Policy Governance
• Facilitation
• Member linkage/community engagement.

“During the past year, I have been fortunate to work with Mark Goehring in two ways. First, as a visiting participant in our board meetings he has been insightful and visionary in his commitment to cooperation. The Hanover Co-op has benefited greatly from the learning that Mark and the Brattleboro Food Co-op have accomplished through their work. Second, as a leader of our Neighboring Co-op initiative Mark has been adept at translating his vision into practical policies and projects to build common understanding, better board effectiveness, and greater collaboration. I am honored to work together on these projects, and the Co-op community is well-served by his leadership.”

— Michael J. Yacavone, Board President,
Hanover Consumer Cooperative Society, Inc.

Mark…

…served on the board of the Brattleboro Food Co-op for seven years, three of those as board president, ending in Fall 2005.
…attended John and Miriam Carver’s Policy Governance Academy, a 5 day intensive on the Policy Governance™ model, in September 2005
…participated in these panel discussion at CCMA 2004 (Minneapolis): “NCGA: What does it mean for our board?” and “Assuring Board Effectiveness”
…presented a double session at CCMA 2005 on “Looking Up and Out: Effective Board Leadership”
…works with co-ops in the eastern and central corridors as part of the Cooperative Board Leadership Development program (CBLD).

One of Mark’s goals is to develop useful tools that help boards and directors do their jobs well, some of which are listed here for you to download. Please be in touch if you have questions or feedback. (Right click and select “save link” if you want to download the files without opening in your browser.)

• Rationale for having a governance system
• Distribution of board time under Policy Governance
• Delegation to the GM
• Decision tree for acting on internal monitoring reports from the GM

Articles on this site

• It’s time to enroll in CBLD 09!
  (November-December 2008, Volume 8, No. 6)
• CBLD Offers Online Board Development Courses
  (March - April 2008, Vol. 8, No. 2)
• Fulfilling Our Intentions by Measuring the Mission
  (September-October 2007: Volume 7, No. 5)
• Purpose Driven Cooperative Boards
  (May-June 2007: Volume 7, No. 3)
• Case Study: Hanover Board Process: Understanding Our Potential
  (May-June 2007: Volume 7, No. 3)
• Monitoring Reports: Closing the Loop on Member Expectations
  (September - October 2006: Volume 6, No. 5)
• CoCoBEEPP
  (June 2005: Volume 5, No. 3)
• CDS Welcomes Mark Goehring
  (Winter 2005: Volume 5, No. 1)
• Case Study - Brattleboro Defines Sustainability: “Working with Our Neighbors”
  (Summer 2004: Volume 4, No. 3)

Articles not on this site

Evaluating the General Manager. Carolee Colter and Mark Goehring.Cooperative Grocer. #143. July-August 2009.

Setting a Process for GM Compensation Mark Goehring. Cooperative Grocer. #134. January – February 2008.

Taking Policy Governance to Heart. Mark Goehring.Cooperative Grocer.#141. March-April

Balance Sheets: Getting the picture of your co-op’s financial picture Mark Goehring. Cooperative Grocer. #132. September – October 2007.

Monitoring the Manager: An Episode of ‘The Accountability Zone’. Mark Goehring. Cooperative Grocer. #123. March-April 2006.

Co-op as Store Becomes Co-op As Community. Mark Goehring. Cooperative Grocer. #117. March-April 2005.