Associations
Balancing member needs, organizational priorities, and resources.
About Boardpath
Legal insight. Governance judgment. Executive experience.
Boardpath brings these perspectives together to help boards make decisions. Our work grows out of years spent advising organizations, leading them, and working through the choices that matter to their future.
What we believe
A board’s responsibilities, its relationships, and the realities of running the organization belong in the same conversation.
Legal insight helps clarify obligations and risk. Governance experience brings the board’s role into focus. Executive experience keeps the advice grounded in what people can carry out. Boardpath connects all three.
Understanding the relationship
Directors and executives need to understand each other.
Directors need confidence that they are exercising sound oversight. Chief executives need clear expectations and room to lead. We help people work through these needs together, especially when they seem to pull in different directions.
The board’s perspective
Confidence in the choices ahead
- A fair view of the options and tradeoffs
- Clarity about the board’s responsibilities
- Space to question, disagree, and understand
- A shared understanding of what was decided
The executive’s perspective
Clarity and support to lead
- An understanding of the board’s priorities
- Appropriate authority between meetings
- Useful feedback and consistent expectations
- A constructive relationship with the board
Who we work with
Organizations governed by volunteer boards.
We work with chairs, chief executives, and board leaders who want to address a specific challenge or improve how governance works in practice.
Professional societies
Supporting volunteer leadership and the professionals who serve the mission.
Credentialing organizations
Navigating responsibilities, independence, and trust in the credential.
Nonprofits
Helping volunteer directors and staff focus their efforts on the mission.
The experience behind Boardpath
Dan Liutikas
Dan Liutikas brings a unique combination of legal, governance, and executive experience to his work with boards. He has spent years helping organizations work through consequential decisions.
Those experiences inform how he works with a board. He understands the obligations directors carry, the judgment a difficult decision calls for, and the practical consequences for the people who must put it into action. Boardpath brings that combined perspective to your organization’s questions and challenges.
The book · In progress
Beyond Bylaws
Four Lenses for a Decision-Ready Board
Beyond Bylaws explores how boards make decisions in practice: the questions directors ask, the judgments they make, and how they work with the people who lead the organization.
One email when the book is published.
Let’s talk about your board.
We would like to understand what you are working through and what you hope will change.