Who is this for?
Experienced board directors with previous corporate governance training, who wish to increase their impact by expanding their understanding of changing governance expectations and opportunities.
Benefits for you
- Ensure your board is complying with evolving notions of fiduciary duty
- Understand the implications of increased corporate disclosure for directors
- Apply formal reasoning and decision frameworks to help clarify and structure difficult decision problems
- Examine how the risk landscape is changing for companies and organizations and what this means for boards
- Learn what Environmental, Social and Governance oversight looks like in practice within boards and committees
- Advance diversity and equity considerations from director recruitment to systemic boardroom thinking
- Expand your ability to anticipate and respond to future boardroom challenges and opportunities
Program content
Financial Oversight
- Key regulatory and investor trends that are changing financial oversight expectations of directors, boards and audit committees
- Implications of recent guidance on fiduciary duty and materiality to oversight responsibility
- The impact of new disclosure requirements and reporting frameworks on the composition, structure and work of boards
Risk Oversight
- The growing impact of new corporate risks, from digital transformation to climate change
- Common decision traps and failures of reasoning as boardroom risk
- Intuitive vs. analytical approaches to decision making: benefits and trade-offs of each
- Reflection exercise: Director value assessment
Governance Best Practice
- Environmental and social responsibility and its effect on corporate governance
- Litigation and legal developments impacting boardrooms
- Evaluating director value driven by board calendars, agenda design, record keeping and the allocation of decision-making time
- Getting the board you need to meet evolving challenges through recruitment and development
- Reflection exercise: Committees value assessment
Where Governance is Headed Next
- Indigenous rights and the reconciliation imperative
- The Rise of Purpose Governance
- Stakeholder capitalism and calls for corporate governance reform
- Reflection exercise: Board value assessment
Special features
To expand real-world application of the content, you will engage in interactive reflection exercises with your peers. You will also hear from renowned professional experts who will share with you their unique insights and experiences.
Program leader

Christie Stephenson
Upcoming Sessions
For financial assistance opportunities, please refer to Financial Assistance, Scholarships and Team Rates .

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