About Us

 

EAC Consulting provides guidance and assistance with planning and implementing:

  • The impact of an organization’s board of directors, the expectations and responsibilities of individual board members, and the range of traits and skills of board members that are to be recruited;
  • The interactions and dynamics between the executive leadership and board;

Leadership transitions, including board evolution, succession planning, and staff development.

01. Notable Achievements:

Founding Member NSBE

Purdue Engineering Alumni Association Service Award

02. Current Boards:

West Side Forward
MHUB
Austin Chamber of Commerce (Chair)
Community Youth & Development (Chair)
Chicago NOF Advisory Council
Chicago Development Fund Advisory Board
Lurie Hospital All Hands Network
CIBC Community Leaders Council
Associated Bank Community Advisory Council

03. Past Boards:

Catholic Charities, Joliet Diocese

Hope Fair Housing Center (Chair)

Purdue Black Alumni Association

Naperville Fair Housing Commission

About Edward Coleman, Founder

Family Is Priority #1
  • Husband
  • Father
  • Grandfather
Nonprofit Leader
  • Founding CEO, West Side Forward
  • Former CEO Bethel New Life
  • Fair Housing
  • Regional Federal Government
Business Executive
  • Amoco
  • AT&T
  • Lucent Technologies
  • Technology Start Up
  • Telecom Entrepreneur
Background
  • Chicago Born and Raised
  • Morgan Park High School
  • BS, Mechanical Engineering. Purdue University
  • MBA, Corporate Finance.  DePaul University

Advisor To Help You

Improve Your Board

Edward A. Coleman

Founder and CEO

The Founder and CEO of EAC Board Consulting, Ed Coleman is well recognized as a master of building and leading impactful boards.  Along with his innate penchant for solving significant problems, Ed’s decades of participation and leadership in nonprofit and advisory boards has given him keen insights regarding what works and what doesn’t.  Ed has devised and implemented a unique set of board optimization tools that are proven, and can be implemented in environments of all types, including for-profit organizations with an imperative to modernize and operate in an inclusive manner.

Looking forward to hearing from you

Features

What We Do Best

Nonprofit board formation and recruiting

Nonprofit board operations

Advisory board formation

Corporate board diversity

Corporate DE&I programs

Get In Touch

CONTACT US,  WE WILL RESPOND WITHIN 24 HOURS 

(630) 865-4828 

info@EACBOARDCONSULTING.com