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Effective Boardroom Leadership
- What are the top challenges of board leadership, and how do you master them?
- What goes into shaping a board chair job description? And how do you evaluate the person at the head of your board table?
- What are the real qualities needed in an effective board leader?
- What elements do a practical board chair job description need (and what isn’t needed)?
- How would you as a board chair handle these actual boardroom challenges?
- How does a board chair divide power with the chief executive (and what are the most common flash points)?
Overview of the webinar
An organization is only as good as its board… which is only as effective as its chairman. Here are the secrets of the world’s best board leaders.
Across the world, business cultures have the important topic of board leadership exactly backwards. For most jobs, we vet candidates based on their experience, training and previous success for a position. Only after rising to the top through a tough winnowing process do we name the final candidate to the role. Over the past century, we’ve developed an infrastructure of business schools, MBA programs, professional certifications, and consultants to professionalize business leadership.
When it comes to serving as leader of a board of directors, however, it may just be because you own a majority position. You may be a retired chief executive, or current chief of the company. You may have business leadership experience… but not necessarily any in leading board. Whatever the culture, the economy, or the type of business, proven skill in leading and managing a board of directors is not what put you in that role at the head of the table.
Who should attend?
- Corporate board members
- Private and family firm directors
- Corporate secretaries
- Corporate counsel
- Venture capital and private equity partners
Why should you attend?
Top corporate executives rise to their leadership positions through a long, tough competitive process of training, experience and achievement. But when it comes chairing a board of directors, none of these qualifiers apply. In truth, most board leaders come to the role without education or experience on this unique position. Too often the result is board mismanagement, boardroom disputes, inefficiency, poor decisions, and even legal liability. Our programs dig into how pros make the “formal, yet informal” role of board leadership effective.
Faculty - Mr.Ralph Ward
Ralph Ward is an internationally-recognized speaker, writer, and advisor on the role of boards of directors, how “benchmark” boards excel, personal boardroom careers, and the future of governance. He speaks on board topics, and offers Boardroom Masterclass programs
Ward is publisher of the online newsletter Boardroom INSIDER, the worldwide source for practical, first-hand advice on better boards and directors. He also edits The Corporate Board magazine, the nation's leading corporate governance journal.
He is author of seven acclaimed books for today’s corporate boards:
- Hacking the Boardroom (2025)
- Board Seeker Guidebook
- Boardroom Q&A
- The New Boardroom Leaders
- Saving the Corporate Board
- Improving Corporate Boards
- 21st Century Corporate Board