Across the world, the focus on corporate governance and board/director effectiveness has never been greater with company/organisation boards facing un-relenting pressure in navigating complex volatile market conditions and headwinds, delivering on Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) commitments, particularly in relation to climate change and adapting strategically in the face of major technology and business-model disruption. A highly effective board of directors makes a significant contribution to the governance and success of an organisation beyond its statutory requirements and is a powerful source of added value for shareholders and stakeholders.

Organisational Strategy has never been more challenging to develop. How Executive Teams collaborate with their Non-Executive Directors in the development of strategy has evolved significantly with greater expectations now on Non-Executive Directors to add significant value to the strategy development process in terms of intelligent robust challenge and bringing fresh independent thinking to the strategy process. Executive Teams and their Boards are also now having to be far more agile in continuously evolving the strategy.

While governance codes and regulation are continually evolving and strengthening internationally, the litmus test for every board of directors continues to be the capability of the board to add significant value, steer the organisation through challenging crises, optimise decision making and truly excel for its shareholders, employees and stakeholders. Board dynamics has a critical impact on board effectiveness. How Boards and Executive teams enable and manage healthy tensions, rigorous intelligent challenge and debate, performance oversight and the highest levels of accountability, has significant impact on the board’s performance and quality of decision-making.

As shareholders and stakeholders are increasing their focus on the board’s effectiveness, governance and performance, Board Evaluations represent the critical mechanism to assess how the board is performing today, how it compares to comparable high-performing boards and what the changes needed to drive sustained improvement in the effectiveness and value add of individual board directors and the collective board.

In recent years, Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) has become a critical topic for boards globally. In the face of relentless increase in regulatory and reporting requirements and significant pressure form shareholders and stakeholders, many boards are struggling to get ESG fully on to the agenda and to give it the importance it deserves. Board Committees are the un-song heroes of a board of directors – their workload has increased significantly.

This masterclass, utilising a wide range of real-life case studies, examines these challenging and sometimes competing factors, including the essence of effective governance, culture within the board and the wider organisation, board dynamics and best practices, and how to drive transformational change in your organisation’s performance by achieving transformational change in your board’s effectiveness, governance and performance.

Enhance your understanding of:

• Chairs
• Executive Directors
• Non-Executive Directors
• Board Committee Chairs and Members
• Company Secretaries
• Chief Executive Officers
• Chief Financial Officers / Finance Directors
• Chief People Officers / Heads of Human Resources
• In-house General Counsel / Heads of Legal
• Chief Risk Officers
• Chief Internal Auditors
• Heads of Governance
• Heads of Compliance
• Corporate Governance Professionals and Advisers
• Governance Legal Advisers
• Regulators