Welcome to the Boardroom!

You may be seeking your first board seat. You may have gained a board role, and need to prepare for that first board meeting. A company may want to bring its rising managers and diverse talents up to speed on what they must know for boardroom inclusion and effectiveness. This one-day program will give you all you need to know to be effective, informed and ready the moment you walk through those boardroom doors.

How corporate boards got this way (and why it matters).
- Called to order - Why are you here?
- How the corporate board model took over the world (and why it so often fails).
- The changing mandates and structures of board committees
- Your boardroom liability dangers

The Structure and Workings of the Board
- Why boards are not designed to do the job we demand of them.
- The elements of an effective board and governance structure.
- Your director duties
- Committee structures

Get ready for your first board (and first meeting)!
- How a new director should prepare.
- Pre-meeting prep best practices.
- What most directors miss at their first board meeting.
- Finding your boardroom mentor.

What the board doesn’t know
- How little boards really know about what can go wrong in the company.
- Board intelligence-gathering tools.
- Boards and the corporate whistleblower system.
- What lessons can we learn from corporate scandals?
- Case study – What the board didn’t know at Steinhoff.