Boardroom INSIDER for… JANUARY

PLANNING AHEAD TO MEET BOARDROOM TALENT NEEDS

For the world’s corporations, the board of directors is the top box in the org chart, responsible for shaping company strategy and scary compliance duties.  But when it comes to succession, training and organization, corporate governance is too often amateurish, casual and ineffective, says the January issue of online monthly Boardroom INSIDER.

“Board leadership and support are vital to good governance,” writes BI publisher and business speaker Ralph Ward.  Yet board chairmanship, the very tip of the leadership spear, is gained through anything but proven ability and training in running a board.  Then, new chairs take the helm with no orientation to speak of.  Today’s board committees (audit, compensation, governance, risk, etc.) face tough tactical workloads, yet their chairs receive even less succession planning or training.  And the corporate secretary role, vital to supporting the board and its legal functions, is typically a duty just lumped into the company’s legal office.

“Long-term thought and development for these roles is still too often just an afterthought,” writes Ward. 

The January issue of Boardroom INSIDER offers a guide to professionalizing these governance roles, including…

4 tips for effective board chair succession
Recruiting (and training) your new committee chairs
Boosting the corporate secretary role

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Ralph Ward’s new book…

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…is an internationally-recognized writer and commentator on the role of boards of directors, the secrets of how benchmark boards excel, gaining a board seat, and the future of governance worldwide.

Ward is the publisher of the online email newsletter Boardroom INSIDER, the worldwide source for practical, first-hand advice on better boards and directors ( www.boardroominsider.com).

He is author of the books Hacking the Boardroom (2025), Board Seeker: Your Guidebook and Career Map into the Corporate Boardroom (2018), Boardroom Q&A (2011), The New Boardroom Leaders (2008), Saving the Corporate Board (2003), Improving Corporate Boards: The Boardroom INSIDER Guidebook (2000), and 21st Century Corporate Board (1997).

Ward is a certified trainer, and speaks internationally on board and governance topics, and presents a “Boardroom Masterclass” seminar worldwide, with recent programs in the Middle East, Asia and Africa.  His media appearances including CNNfn, C-SPAN, Voice of America, Bloomberg Money Show, National Public Radio, Marketplace, and CNBC (U.S. and U.K.).

Ward has also edited The Corporate Board magazine, the international journal of corporate governance, since 1990. He writes and comments on boardroom matters for a number of other publications, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Across the Board, Crains, Vital Speeches, the Detroit Free Press, Barrons and INC.com., and serves on several advisory and non-profit boards.