Governance Survey – Initial Results

We recently issued a governance survey to more than 800 certification organizations. The goal of the survey is to provide valuable information about a variety of governance issues specific to certifying agencies—like you—including:

• General governance structure
• Compensation
• Leadership selection processes
• Volunteer training and orientation

If you have not yet completed the survey, we encourage you to send in your response in the next few days before the survey closes. Individual survey results are confidential and will not be shared. Aggregate results will be distributed to all survey respondents that provide their email address at the end of the survey.

Respondents will also be eligible to receive a Barnes & Noble gift card.

While responses are still coming in we thought we’d share a few of the early findings:

• Most certification boards/committees have one public member and have no plans to add additional public members

• Many organizations describe themselves as having administrative independence from parent organizations or other groups, but there are some areas of decision making where autonomy is less common.

• There is a strong interest in accreditation (NCCA, ANSI and ABNS)

• Some of the challenges identified include: competition, leadership selection and orientation, and increasing employer support for credentials.

If you would like to complete the survey, but have not received it, please contact us.