Aligned Influence®: Beyond Governance: A Better Way Forward for Boards, Executives, and Their Organizations

Aligned Influence® equips board members and executives with a clear way forward in their roles together by helping them understand why and how to improve.

Within every organization is an “ecosystem” of influencers. In organizations with boards of directors and executives, that ecosystem is even more complex, and it is even more important to understand it for the benefit of everyone, including the investors/donors. To date, governance models have provided little to no understanding of this ecosystem of influence, leaving this as an ongoing problem in organizations with the complexity of a board and executive. Governance experts have applied a number of inadequate solutions to a problem they still do not grasp. Within Aligned Influence®, Ken Schuetz presents the Aligned Influence® model which offers a unique perspective to this central problem and a solution that addresses organizational alignment as a necessary prerequisite to effectiveness.

Ken Schuetz is the CEO and founder of Aligned Influence® Consulting and the creator of the Aligned Influence® model. He invested the first twenty-five years of his career as an executive at the University of Colorado in Boulder, Colorado, where he also earned his degree and currently is a member of the adjunct faculty of the Leeds School of Business. Ken is the author of many articles. He has served on the boards of schools, churches, and nonprofits and as the chairman of the Substantial Services Taskforce for the National Education Broadband Service Association and the International Development Committee for St. Vrain Valley Habitat for Humanity. Ken utilizes his years of experience as an executive in higher education, his multiple years in board leadership, and his academic background in organizational communication to help organizations achieve the effectiveness they and their communities of interest desire. His work in organizational leadership has extended to many organizations across the United States: for-profit, nonprofit, faith-based, and secular. Ken currently resides in Longmont, Colorado.