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Building the CEO/Board Relationship
- Who takes the lead on CEO succession, the outgoing chief, or the board? What works best?
- What sort of talent succession planning should the CEO bring to the board? How do you measure its value?
- What are the most common board failings with it comes to evaluating the CEO?
- Make the CEO/board chair relationship work.
- Does your board have an “emergency” CEO succession plan (and do you know it will work)?
- Here are the most common CEO/boardroom flash points.
Overview of the webinar
Our program looks at the major touchpoints in the board/chief executive relationship, including succession planning, assessment, communications, strategy, the role of the CEO in board support. How much power should the chief have in determining company governance, and how (and how shouldn’t) the board and its committees become involved in operational matters? How well does your CEO keep the board informed, and what are current best practices?
Who should attend?
- Corporate board members
- Rising corporate executives
- Private and family firm board members
- Corporate secretaries
- Corporate counsel
- Venture capital and private equity partners
Why should you attend?
It’s the Number One item in any board’s job description – hiring, monitoring and (if needed) firing the chief executive. Yet the relationship between your board and the CEO is fraught with potential misunderstandings and danger points. Board too often go to the extremes of obedience to the chief, or trying to run the business themselves. What tips and practices can the board use to build a productive, respectful “corporate marriage?”
Faculty - Mr.Ralph Ward
Ralph Ward is an internationally-recognized speaker, writer, and advisor on the role of boards of directors, how “benchmark” boards excel, personal boardroom careers, and the future of governance. He speaks on board topics, and offers Boardroom Masterclass programs
Ward is publisher of the online newsletter Boardroom INSIDER, the worldwide source for practical, first-hand advice on better boards and directors. He also edits The Corporate Board magazine, the nation's leading corporate governance journal.
He is author of seven acclaimed books for today’s corporate boards:
- Hacking the Boardroom (2025)
- Board Seeker Guidebook
- Boardroom Q&A
- The New Boardroom Leaders
- Saving the Corporate Board
- Improving Corporate Boards
- 21st Century Corporate Board