Michigan Virtual Is Seeking Executive Leaders To Join Its Nonprofit Board Of Directors Influence innovation. Advance education. Leave a statewide legacy.
The Opportunity:
Member, Board Of Directors
Michigan Virtual seeks accomplished executive leaders to serve on its nonprofit Board of Directors. Acting as Ambassadors, Board members provide strategic governance, fiduciary oversight, and executive counsel while helping advance innovation in learning, teaching, and educational technology across Michigan.
The "Why": Our Board Of Directors Volunteer To Serve To:
- Help shape the future of education during a period of unprecedented change.
- Collaborate with respected leaders from education, business, technology, and government.
- Apply executive leadership experience to issues that affect students across Michigan.
- Influence statewide innovation in AI, workforce readiness, and educational transformation.
- Help ensure Michigan remains a national leader in digital learning.
- Leave a lasting legacy for future generations of learners.
- What You'll Experience:
- Engage in thoughtful strategic conversations
- Learn from respected leaders across sectors
- Contribute to statewide education policy discussions
- Help anticipate emerging trends
- Participate in governance that emphasizes innovation over administration.
- What You Can Expect:
- Quarterly in-person Board meetings
- Term limits (3-year terms, renewable 3 times)
- Service on a Board Committee
- No philanthropic gift requirement
- Board colleagues with exceptional talents and background
Core Board Responsibilities:- Mission and strategy: Help refine, protect, and advance the organization's public-purpose mission.
- Fiduciary oversight: Approve annual budgets, review financial performance, audits, risk, and sustainability.
- Executive partnership: Support, advise, and evaluate the President & CEO through the Board's established processes.
- Policy and accountability: Ensure ethical conduct, transparency, compliance, and effective governance practices.
- External leadership: Open doors, build relationships, and strengthen partnerships in strategic areas.
- Inclusive stewardship: Bring diverse perspectives, lived experience, and disciplined judgment to decisions that affect learners statewide
- Our Ideal Candidate
- If you are an executive leader who enjoys solving complex challenges, believes innovation can improve educational outcomes, and wants to help shape the future of learning in Michigan, we welcome a confidential conversation.
- We are looking for leaders who...Think strategically
- Embrace innovation
- Enjoy solving complex challenges
- Ask courageous questions
- Build consensus
- Are curious about emerging technology
- Current strategic priorities:
- AIWorkforce development
- SustainabilityStrategic partnerships
- InnovationExperience especially valuable:
Finance
ManufacturingHealthcareHRTechnologyOrganizational History
Established in 1998, Michigan Virtual is a nationally recognized educational non-profit organization that serves as a statewide champion for online and digital learning in Michigan. Headquartered in Lansing, we serve K-12 students, educators, schools, and districts across all of Michigan. We bring together the best in people and technology to maximize learning and teaching by serving as a laboratory for educational innovation. Michigan Virtual conducts original research, pilots emerging approaches, and works directly with districts to design and implement solutions that improve teaching and learning. We translate work into practice through high-quality online courses for students, professional development programming for educators, and partnerships that position us as a change agent, service provider, and capacity builder for schools across Michigan. Last year, Michigan Virtual served more than 95% of all local school districts in the state, nearly 100% the charter schools, and approximately 75% of all nonpublic schools in Michigan.
Mission: Maximize learning and teaching by bringing together the best in people and technology.
Vision: Be Michigan's leader for innovation in education.
Our Story:
We're committed to making a difference in K-12 education.
Values:
Put Learners First — We believe learners are central to our mission and vision.
Act with Integrity — We are respectful, honest, accountable, and trustworthy with each other and our stakeholders.
Cultivate Creativity — We inspire curiosity and innovative problem solving.
Champion Diversity — We seek different voices, faces, ideas, and backgrounds, believing human diversity drives innovation and creativity.
Commit to Excellence — We provide quality products, services, and relationships to satisfy all stakeholders.
Strategic Direction:
Michigan Virtual continues to engage in impactful initiatives to support Michigan's K-12 system. The 2025-2030 Strategic Plan positions Michigan Virtual to help schools and educators navigate innovation to address persistent educational challenges. The plan centers on three strategic priorities:
Drive Educational Change: Urgency is increasing in our stakeholders to design, develop, and deploy new educational models that serve diverse learner needs. We partner with educational leaders and empower them with the tools and insights needed for transformation, positioning ourselves as thought leaders in forecasting and adapting to emerging trends in the future of learning.
Broaden Student Pathways: Many students have difficulty seeing the relevance of their learning, struggle with engagement, and often do not have a clear vision for their future. We will enrich students' educational journey by expanding access to a diverse array of engaging core and high-interest elective offerings.
Power Professional Learning: Michigan sits on top of an unprecedented need for talent development. We will scale our professional learning services while providing positive experiences that people want to tell their friends and colleagues about.
To ApplyThis search is being managed by Karen F. Andrews, SHRM-SCP, of The Andrews Group. To apply, candidates should submit their cover letter and resume to karen@karenandrewsgroup.com
