The purpose of governance is to provide an organisation with direction and control so that it can achieve its strategic objectives. Governance has many component parts – ‘building blocks’ – which all have to be in place, and functioning properly, for the process to work.

The Masterclass explores the importance of corporate governance as a business-critical function for business growth and development; how effective boards, and effective directors, lie at the heart of the governance eco-system, and the role and responsibilities of directors for introducing and implementing best-practice corporate governance systems.

The workshop will identify what good governance looks like, what gets in the way of good governance, and how governance dysfunction can be addressed and tackled.

The purpose of governance has traditionally been described as being to provide an organisation with direction and control so that it can achieve its strategic objectives – overnight survival and long-term sustainable success. How should we now view governance? What has changed and what remains the same in the post Covid world? Governance has many component parts – ‘building blocks’ – which all have to be in place, and functioning properly, for the process to work. The Masterclass explores the importance of corporate governance as a business-critical function for survival first of all, and then business growth and development how effective boards, and effective directors, lie at the heart of the governance eco-system the role and responsibilities of directors for introducing and implementing corporate governance systems which can survive brutal shocks and demonstrate the resilience required to go on to prosper.

The workshop will identify what good governance looks like, what gets in the way of good governance, and how governance dysfunction can be addressed and tackled.

Delegates attending the workshop will be able to take part in group and table discussions to compare and contrast the governance systems in their own countries. There will be exercises where best practices will be explored and shared. The Masterclass will consider the hot topics of the day and use up-to-date case studies to explain and illustrate how governance is a daily part of organisational life.