Gain a thorough understanding of board roles and responsibilities, with CEO-specific insights on financial oversight and governance expectations from veteran directors and industry experts.

Key Insights Learned:

• Director duties and oversight responsibilities
• Board structure and operations
• Compliance and liabilities for boards
• Boards and shareholder engagement
• Disclosures and reporting
• Understanding and navigating today’s risks
• Director onboarding best practices

Understand the relationship between the board, shareholders and regulators, with special focus on financial reporting expectations and oversight responsibilities to meet legal requirements and help companies prosper.

Key Insights Learned:

• Stakeholders’ short and long-term expectations
• The role of regulators in your ESG conversations
• Roadmap to approaching ESG in the boardroom
• How to properly communicate ESG initiatives
• ISS expectations for cybersecurity

Learn how to build competent boards and assess board performance, with CEO insights on governance structures that support effective financial oversight and stakeholder trust.

Key Insights Learned:

• Responsibilities of the Nominating/Governance Committee
• Overview of board and committee composition
• Oversight of board function and evaluations
• CEO and board succession planning
• Best practices for onboarding new committee members
• Overview of the board assessment process and disclosures
• The board’s role in change management

Discover how boards integrate human capital and executive pay strategies, with CEO perspectives on compensation philosophy and financial impact of human capital decisions.

Key Insights Learned:

• Compensation committee responsibilities and operations
• The relationship between comp committees and HR
• Developing peer groups for your executive pay program
• Trends in director pay
• Shareholder engagement around human capital
• Director insights on the role in overseeing human capital
• How governance of human capital and talent is shifting

Build expertise in audit committee fundamentals. Learn audit committee responsibilities, financial reporting oversight and internal controls from a CEO perspective.

Key Insights Learned:

• Audit committee responsibilities and operations
• Oversight of financial reporting for audit committees
• Oversight of internal and external auditors
• Response readiness and preparing for a crisis
• Director insights on digital transformation
• CISOs advice on security measures boards should address
• Technologies reshaping today’s businesses

There is no shortage of risks to scare directors. Build resilience by gaining a concrete understanding of potential risks and how to properly prepare for and manage new or existing threats.

Key Insights Learned:

• Enterprise risk management frameworks
• Crisis management and business continuity
• Cybersecurity and technology risks
• Market and operational risk assessment
• Board’s role in risk appetite and governance
• Risk reporting and board oversight responsibilities