Boardroom Insider

Boardroom Insider

Tools and Tips for Better Boards and Better Directors

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Boardroom INSIDER for… FEBRUARY

HELP WANTED: BOARD CHAIR – NO RESOURCES, TOUGH DEMANDS, NO TRAINING

 It’s the ultimate role at the ultimate power center of all the world’s corporations – chairman of the board.  Yet the board chair typically has no office, no budget, no dedicated staff, and largely informal powers requiring persuasion and emotional intelligence.  Oh, and the chair also has to convince all the other business alphas gathered around the board table to play together as equals.

The kicker to this corporate quandary, says an article in the February issue of Boardroom INSIDER – “there is virtually no training on how to be an effective board chair.”  Publisher and boardroom speaker Ralph Ward writes that skilled board leadership has become a must with today’s booming board workloads and tough legal compliance demands.  While this issue of BI includes several global training options for “the board’s most formal, yet informal role,” more “practical training to be a board chair is urgently needed.”

  Also in Boardroom INSIDER for February…

A purple ball is in the air with its reflection.AI boardroom note taking – boon or legal nightmare?
A purple ball is in the air with its reflection.The shifting demands on board investigations
A purple ball is in the air with its reflection. Q&A: How to push back on boardroom “imposter syndrome?”

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My new Udemy Get Ready for Your First Board Meeting online course is for C-level career executives, entrepreneurs, investors, company founders, and all of you who’ve gained your first board role.. and want to be prepared when you walk through those boardroom doors.  Included are Q&A thought starters and “homework” projects to round out the course.  

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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 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 CPD-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.

CONTACT: Tel: 1+989-833-7615 or via email