Dr. Harvey A. Meier is the Executive Director of the Institutes for ANC Director Education® and the Institute for Tribal Council Training™ and is a certified management consultant (CMC). Since 1971, he has served as a strategic business advisor to CEOs, boards, owners, and senior executives of closely held corporations, from startups to billion-dollar companies in a wide range of industries, including Alaska Native Corporations, Tribes in Alaska, and in the Lower 48.
He is often retained for the following:
- To guide the execution of board and Tribal Council governance best practices, strengthen the Board, Council, CEO, and TA partnership, and facilitate improvements in their communications.
- Provide tools to enhance director and Council member skills and effectiveness.
- Present in-person training programs.
- Facilitate board, CEO, Council, and TA workshops, retreats, and strategic planning sessions.
- Facilitate building solid teams, conflict resolution, coaching, and mentoring managers and executives.
- Design management succession plans, CEO and TA performance evaluation processes, Board and Council self-evaluation processes, and senior management incentive compensation plans.
- Facilitate organization restructures/realignments.
- Conduct top management searches.
IADE and ITCT Faculty are comprised of seasoned professionals who are experts in their fields, with years of front-line experience and deep insight, knowledge, and expertise in board leadership and governance practices. These effective communicators can clarify productive discussions, enabling directors, CEOs, Council members, and TAs to ask questions and openly express their views and perspectives.
Members of the faculty represent law firms, audit firms, consulting firms, universities, highly respected native leaders, and ANC and Alaska Native Tribal executives who are willing to share their time and knowledge as Institute faculty.