2019 CAIS Heads & Chairs Conference

This session will delve into the timing and psychological factors affecting the re contracting process with the head of school: when the compensation committee of the board should do it and how to do it professionally, responsibly and accurately. This session will discuss the innate awkwardness of this sensitive topic for most heads and how neglecting this process or doing it haphazardly or poorly leads to serious and needless governance challenges and potential loss of trust between heads and the leadership of their boards. One goal of this session is to encourage heads to broach the subject with their boards in order to safeguard their professional and personal needs, including those of their families, as well as the stability of the school. Another goal is to give boards the framework to conduct this process in a fiscally responsible, thoughtful, expeditious and effective manner including benchmarking the head[?]s total package relative to the local, regional and national marketplace.