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RALPH WARD

Ralph Ward is an internationally-recognized speaker, writer, and advisor on the role of boards of directors, how “benchmark” boards excel, setting personal boardroom goals, and the future of governance worldwide. Ward is a publisher of the online newsletter Boardroom INSIDER, the worldwide source for practical, first-hand advice on better boards and directors (www.boardroominsider.com). He also edits The Corporate Board magazine (www.corporateboard.com) the nation's leading corporate governance journal, with corporate subscribers are directors and senior officers across the U.S. and in 27 foreign countries. He is author of five acclaimed books on board and governance for today’s corporate boards, the challenges they face, and the answers they need to excel: Board Seeker: Your Guidebook into the Corporate Boardroom (2018) • Boardroom Q&A (2011) • The New Boardroom Leaders (2008) • Saving the Corporate Board (2003) • Improving Corporate Boards: The Boardroom INSIDER Guidebook (2000) • 21st Century Corporate Board (1997)


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Effective Boardroom Leadership

 Ralph Ward
 Recorded Webinar
 60 Minutes
Effective Boardroom Leadership

Across the world, business cultures have the important topic of board leadership exactly backwards. For most jobs, we vet candidates based on their experience, training and previous success for a position. Only after rising to the top through a tough winnowing process do we name the final candidate to the role. Over the past century, we’ve developed an infrastructure of business schools, MBA programs, profe..

$200.00
Evaluating Your Board

 Ralph Ward
 Recorded Webinar
 60 Minutes
Evaluating Your Board

The membership, structures, and functions of most boards of directors come about by happenstance and continue through inertia. Members are named through ownership, networking, and personal or family connections. Board operations likewise are structured to meet basic legal requirements, but too often ignore structural, support and meeting practices that could nurture the most value from membership. Only with..

$200.00
Putting Board Committees to Work

 Ralph Ward
 Recorded Webinar
 60 Minutes
Putting Board Committees to Work

The savvy business people who make up boards of directors know how to effectively run complex business operations in their “day jobs.” They hire people with proven, specialized skills and a track record of achievement. They structure and organize their efforts so talent with specific skills manage and perform specific functions, all for a smooth-running corporate machine. Yet boards of directors, who today ..

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Risk Management and Oversight for Boards

 Ralph Ward
 Recorded Webinar
 60 Minutes
Risk Management and Oversight for Boards

The corporate board of directors is a group of well-meaning, part-time amateurs, trying to monitor, control, and assure the work of the full-time professional managers who actually run the corporation. That means at best, your board will be several steps behind in having an accurate, current, complete insight into the company, its operations, its finances, and its dangers. At worst, you could, sometime in t..

$200.00
Succession Planning for the Board and CEO

 Ralph Ward
 Recorded Webinar
 90 Minutes
Succession Planning for the Board and CEO

In this engaging and interactive session, we will explore the factors for consideration when evaluating whether the CEO may need to be replaced, and the mechanics for doing so. A business will not be sustainable if it is saddled with a CEO that is no longer a good fit for the organization. We explore best practices for dealing with this extremely sensitive, people related problem.The Nominating Committee is..

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The Best Practice Boardroom

 Ralph Ward
 Recorded Webinar
 60 Minutes
The Best Practice Boardroom

The corporate board model was never designed to do real business work, so it fails time and again. This is the Big Secret of corporate boards that none of us want to admit. It originated as a ceremonial legal body, but now we increasingly demand to fulfill a very functional role. The odds are very much against the board of directors doing its job effectively.Our program will help you even those odds.  ..

$200.00
The Effective Board Leader

 Ralph Ward
 Recorded Webinar
 60 Minutes
The Effective Board Leader

Across the world, business cultures have the important topic of board leadership exactly backward. For most jobs, we vet candidates based on their experience, training, and previous success for a position. Only after rising to the top through a tough winnowing process do we name the final candidate for the role. Over the past century, we’ve developed an infrastructure of business schools, MBA programs, prof..

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