The difference between a board that runs its community and one that spends every meeting reacting isn't talent — it's structure. An hour on the practices that separate the two, and how to put them in place.
A working session, not a sales pitch — we move quickly through the habits, structures, and boundaries that let a volunteer board govern well without burning out its members.
Doug Newman is joined by Cameron Lange of Alloy Growth Partners for a candid hour on how boards actually work — and where they get stuck.
Doug is President & CEO of CPE Property Management Solutions, a Connecticut-based firm specializing in community association management. With 20+ years of experience, he works with condominium, HOA, and cooperative boards on governance, financial strategy, and long-term community sustainability.
Cameron joins Doug from Alloy Growth Partners to look at board performance from the outside in — how effective boards structure decisions, run their meetings, and hold themselves accountable, and where the habits that stall a board tend to start.
Budgets, reserves, insurance, maintenance — every one of those decisions is made by a board, in a meeting, under time pressure, usually by volunteers with day jobs. When the governance is sound, those decisions get made once and stick. When it isn't, the same issue comes back meeting after meeting.
This session is about that layer: how the board's roles are defined, how meetings are run, how disagreement gets handled, and where the line sits between governing the community and managing it. Practical structures you can put in place before the next annual cycle begins.
Useful context on the board's role and the decisions that come with it — worth a look before October 7.
Where the manager's job ends and the board's begins — the division of labor that makes the partnership work.
Open guideThe financial decisions a governing board is accountable for, and the questions to ask before approving the numbers.
Open guideSixty minutes on how high-functioning boards operate — roles, meetings, conflict, and the partnership with management. Free to attend, real Q&A.