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Board Governance Live Learning Experiences

Best practices in governance, board and chief executive leadership, board effectiveness, and DEI.

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What’s Involved

Strengthen the governance knowledge and skills of your professionals through our live, webinar-based, and in-person learning experiences. Governance training programs spark a culture of board service at your company by readying professionals for the boardroom.

Our learning experiences are designed to prioritize interaction and boardroom simulations, giving attendees opportunities to workshop scenarios they will encounter and practice new board leadership skills in real time. These training sessions position participants to deliver high-impact board service from day one.

Our experienced team of good governance experts meets the training needs of nonprofit boards and corporate social responsibility and HR/talent teams

Governance training programs spark a culture of board service at your company by readying professionals for the boardroom. Our learning experiences are designed to prioritize interaction and boardroom simulations, giving attendees opportunities to workshop scenarios they will encounter and practice new board leadership skills in real time.

Learn how to tap into board service opportunities and find an organization at the center of your passions, understand the 12 basic board roles, know the responsibilities and commitments required of board members, and understand how to start strong and excel over time.

  • The Board’s Role in Financial Oversight

  • The Board’s Legal and Ethical Duties

  • Demystifying the Board’s Role in Fundraising and Ambassadorship

  • Overcome Fundraising Anxiety & Step Into Your Fundraiser Role

  • Become a Board Superstar: The Attributes of Exceptional Nonprofit Board Service

We believe that all board members have a duty to their community beyond the impact created by their nonprofit organization's work. Explore how diversity, equity, inclusion, leadership, and teamwork play a role in exceptional nonprofit board service.

  • The Value of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion for the Board and How it Generates Opportunities

  • The Party’s All Here: Inclusive Frameworks for Diverse Board Recruitment and Onboarding

Support your nonprofit organization in a variety of ways. Explore the balance between management and board responsibilities, learn strategies for evaluating and supporting the chief executive, and uncover ways in which you can leverage your skills and networks for high impact.

  • Excellence in Board Service

  • Be the Leader Your Team Needs You to Be: The Five Leadership Essentials

  • Challenges of Nonprofit Leadership… and How to Overcome Them

Engage with high-impact strategies that you can immediately deploy to boost the performance and overall impact of your Board of Directors.

  • 6 Things You Can Do Right Now to Boost Your Board’s Performance

  • Build a Better Board Meeting

  • 4 Symptoms of an Unhealthy Board and 4 Practices of a Healthy Board

  • Get the Right People on the Bus: Developing a Best-in-Class Board Development Process

  • Board Leadership During a Crisis

  • Strategic Planning: Building Your Organization’s Future Today

Designed for current board members with more tenure, these sessions advance professionals to specialized levels of understanding and how to execute in key governance areas such as effective fundraising, creative resource generation, and how to navigate the challenges many boards collectively face.

  • Management versus Board Responsibilities: Navigating the Gray Area

  • Championing Diversity, Inclusion and Equity as a Nonprofit Board Member

  • Key Trends Influencing the Social Good Sector

  • Creative Resource Development: Tapping into Pro Bono and Revenue Generating Models

Rob understands that diversity is who we are, but more importantly, he is keenly aware that inclusion – how we work together – is paramount to solving the social challenges at hand. Rob inspires people to contribute.”

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Jorge QuezadaChief Diversity Officer, Kraft Foods Group

I was SO impressed by my BoardLead experience—the team offered so much support and guidance as I approached my first ever Board position, which is something I had been dreaming about for awhile. The process was both rigorous and accessible—a perfect balance. The training and guidance provided is also extremely valuable for a first-time Board member. This placement was really life & career changing for me, and I couldn't be more grateful!

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Laura HermanDesign Research & Strategy, Creative Cloud & Emerging Products, Adobe

When you start serving on a board, you become so much more aware and smarter about the possibilities around you and how to seize them... I truly believe the more I lean into this opportunity, the more I can get out of it.

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Katarzyna BednarowiczBoardLeader, PowerPlay

Get Started

To learn more about our board governance trainings, contact Erin Pierson, our BoardLead Director.

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Excellence in Board Service

Attendees engage in a high-energy case study experience, simulating boardroom deliberation and bringing individual values and perspectives to the conversation. The learning experience then takes a detailed look at the legal Duty of Care and ends with an exploration of best practices in the strategy and CEO oversight role of the board.

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Custom Learning Experiences

We can create a unique training for your professionals to heighten their readiness to join a board or strengthen their service as a board member.

Contact us to discuss a training designed to fit your specific needs.

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The Results

Good governance training has benefits beyond the expected.

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Easier Recruitment

Governance and effectiveness training helps potential new candidates gain the confidence to start strong as first-time board members.

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Leadership Opportunities

45% of BoardLeaders are elected or appointed to leadership positions within the first year, giving them an edge in career advancement.

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Skills Building

Board members have opportunities to develop skills they might not use in their current position with their company.

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Impact Story

A Leader in LGBTQ+ Healthcare

Carl Gaines shares on the meaning of his board service with Callen-Lorde, a New York City-based Community Health Center.

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