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Social Profit Governance in transition #3 - Bewel

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The question is governance under pressure. The conversation looks at social profit organisations being pushed to adapt to digitalisation, marketing, and social expectations. Chairmanship gets special attention. The opening point is blunt: in 2025, the chairman is no longer only the person who runs the meeting. More and more, the chair has to help a board move through change. Bewel gives the episode its working case. The guest explains how an approach based on competence started with his own appointment through an external office, then became a board habit. Replacement moments are where this gets practical. When an independent administrator left, Bewel did not drift back to informal succession or simple stakeholder representation. It repeated a structured process. A function profile was written out and published through channels including Guberna, giving the board process more shape. The board agreement matters too. The episode places it next to the competence matrix as a way to define the minimum capacities a board needs. Hard skills still count: reading annual accounts, understanding financial data, and knowing Bewel's production work. So do softer, messier ones: tailored work, the social aspect, the social-economic setting, and the welfare dimension. Representation is not dismissed. The host presses on how hard it is to move beyond pure representation when stakeholders still need a seat in the conversation. The answer is process. Mapping competencies gives Bewel a cleaner way to talk about board roles, composition, and expectations. The close lands on board behavior: say what is actually going on, then use that candor to look for the best solution.

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A practical look at how social-profit boards are rethinking who belongs around the table.

The episode frames chairmanship in social profit organisations as a role that has to do more than preside over a meeting. Eric Moniquet's account at BWEL gives that shift practical shape through a clearer function profile, a competence matrix, and minimum competencies that reach…

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A chairman's job gets redefined around competence, not ceremony.

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