Strengthening the Board: Overcoming Challenges, Embracing Opportunities & Trustee Roundtable
Wednesday, September 25
2:15 - 3:45 PM
Promenade Ballroom
Speaker - Brent Ives
Governance Consultant
Brent Ives has 25 years of management consulting experience after 25 years as a technical manager at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Brent served for 23 years as a City Councilman, with the last 8 years as the directly elected Mayor of the City of Tracy, CA, a city of 100,000 population in the central valley of California. He served as a charter commissioner of the Altamont Commuter Express (ACE Train) Joint Powers Authority, and a Chair/Director of the San Joaquin County Council of Governments. Brent is now the former Mayor of Tracy, having termed out of office in December 2014.
Brent, through his firm BHI Management Consulting (BHI), has trained staff of hundreds of local agencies and individual decision makers, Council members, Board members and managers from all walks of the public sector and business. He has taught best governance practices for public agencies associations for over 20 years. Brent and other BHI associates have decades of experience leading public agencies to improve, including the special relationship of the Board/Council and Executive manager. BHI also runs the web-based Board training site, www.GoodBoardWork.com. In 2016, Brent also wrote and published the book, 52 Ways to Be a Better Board, available on Amazon. He has a clear vision for looking over the horizon with the public to form practical and clear public policy and strategy.
The BHI team carefully seeks clarity in every project so that the deliverables are crystal clear before proceeding. Providing clients with a wide variety of organizational and governance related services, the firm seeks to provide an experience that is building to the organization, to those who operate it and to those making policy decisions.