I hope it will also apply to current Board members and their projects, because from my perspective that is even more serious than the future Board members giving up their chair seats and their lead seats. We're in crisis right now.

Both have to happen for any good to come of this. I know it's a matter of willing and available hands, but start training now. Ask the the people who are there and invested and already working. And that means letting go and it's scary (I know, I've done it). It means trust and letting go and accepting that things will change and maybe not in ways you particularly like. But it will be fine and if it's not, we'll learn. Until we start trusting each other to lead in good faith, we will never have any new leaders.

When I see this happening, and see that we have a slate of candidates who will not be chairs/leads or will be giving up their chair/lead seats upon taking their Board seats, I will happily eat my words about my despair over this plan.