Global best practice tips and tools for how boards really work, making them more effective, and improving equity and corporate responsibility.

Session 1
The Corporate Board Model – How, Why and Who (Case Study #1)
How did the “corporate board” model take over the world… and why does it keep failing?
- Called to order - Group introductions, Why are we here?
- How the corporate board model took over the world (and why it so often fails).
- The changing mandates and structures of board committees
- Case study – Governance changes made new financing possible

Session 2
The Structure and Workings of an Effective Board
The board’s role as a fiduciary; the role of board committees, and why they are now so crucial to success.
- Why boards are not designed to do the job we demand of them.
- The elements of an effective board and governance structure.
- “Best practice” tips from national corporate governance frameworks
- Your director duties
- Effective committee structures
- “Specializing” board work to the committee level

Session 3
Corporate Financial Controls and the Board (Case Study)
What numbers and data tell the real company story (and how to make them board friendly).
- Making financial controls "board friendly."
- Smart use of dashboards and digital tools to improve controls.
- Disclosure – telling the company story to investors and stakeholders.
- What your board doesn’t know about the company
- Board info packages – how to cut the bulk, while improving value.
- The board role in shaping company strategy.

Session 4
Best Practice Boardroom Tools
Save time and effort and improve board results with these proven meeting, agenda and recordkeeping ideas.
- Board calendars and agendas that boost workflow.
- What’s missing from your board agenda?
- “Bright ideas” for agendas that deliver better boardwork with less effort.
- How most board materials guarantee poor oversight (and how to shake them up)
- Try these tools to improve board presentations.

Session 5
ESG and the Board (Case study)
How boards can integrate and monitor company environmental, social and governance issues.
- The boom in ESG concerns.
- How does the board structure itself to work with ESG stakeholders?
- Telling your ESG story to shareholders and stakeholders
- Judging company ESG materiality.
- Boardroom diversity – best practice trends and ideas