Women on Boards
Yale School of Management
How long?
- 6 days
- in person
What are the topics?
Yale School of Management
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Who should attend
Senior corporate or non-profit women executives currently in or preparing for the C-Suite, or who are preparing for retirement.
About the course
As more women reach senior roles within organizations, they are increasingly interested in working on boards as independent directors. Research shows having a critical mass of women on a board leads to higher quality decision making, reduced operational risk, faster innovation, and better financial results on many key metrics. This program is designed to help you launch your search for a seat on a board, understand the skills required, and develop those most needed in today’s boards, which have evolved significantly over the last decade.
Key Benefits
Becoming a board director helps women leaders in many ways, a few of which are:
- Acquire and contribute invaluable strategic perspective to prepare for success in a C-suite role
- Form important professional “mentor” relationships across industries and sectors
- Demonstrate subject matter expertise that can expedite professional advancement
Breaking into the boardroom can be challenging for anyone. Yale’s Women on Boards program gives its participants an advantage with guided preparation for the board search process. Prior to arriving you will complete pre-work, which includes pre-readings and drafting a board resume. You will develop your professional plan throughout the course and review your progress in a 3-month group coaching check-in.
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What to expect
- Learn about the different types of boards and key responsibilities for board service
- Create a plan to build experience that makes you a competitive board candidate
- Complete a self-assessment to gauge your strengths and areas of development
- Participate in group executive coaching sessions to develop your skillset
- Develop a board resume that emphasizes the skills most desired by board’s today
- Engage with executive search firms that specialize in searching for women on boards
- Get input from experienced board directors, search firms, and corporate governance experts to understand what you need to know for a board search and for the role
Curriculum
Highlights include:
- Boards in the 21st Century: Board Types and the New Directors’ Roles
- Corporate Strategy: The Board Oversight Rule
- Network Building: Mentors, Sponsors, and Peers
- The Search Strategy: Working with Board Search Firms
- Women on Corporate Boards Panel
- Communicating Your Personal Brand
Experts
Zoë Chance
Zoë studies persuasion and decision making, working passionately to understand how people can lead happier, healthier, more fulfilling lives. At Yale, Zoë teaches Mastering Influence and Persuasion, advises Center for Customer Insights consulting and research teams, and collaborates with Google a...
Jeffrey Sonnenfeld
Jeffrey Sonnenfeld served as full tenured professor at Emory's Goizueta Business School for a decade and a professor at the Harvard Business School for a decade, and is currently the senior associate dean of leadership programs as well as the Lester Crown Professor in the Practice of Management f...
Daylian Cain
Dr. Cain''s research focuses on "judgment and decision-making" and "behavioral business ethics." In other words, he studies the reasons why smart people do dumb things. Cain is a leading expert on conflicts of interest, especially the "perverse effects of disclosing conflicts of interest," and ho...
Todd Cort
Dr. Cort works at the intersection of corporate responsibility and sustainable finance. My objective is to reduce the barriers to moving capital (either corporate or investor) to more sustainable investments. In this space, Dr. Cort is working on: 1) Metrics and standards for measuring the envi...
Emma Seppala
EMMA SEPPÄLÄ, Ph.D, is Science Director of Stanford University’s Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education and the author of The Happiness Track (HarperOne, 2016). She is Co-Director of the Yale College Emotional Intelligence Project at the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, ...
David Bach
Bach received his PhD and MA in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley, and holds a BA magna cum laude in Political Science and International Studies from Yale University. An expert in political economy, his research and teaching focuses on business-government relations, n...
Fiona Scott Morton
Fiona M. Scott Morton is the Theodore Nierenberg Professor of Economics at the Yale University School of Management where she has been on the faculty since 1999. Her area of academic research is empirical industrial organization, with a focus on empirical studies of competition in areas such as p...
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