boardroom effectiveness

Chairman As Leaders – Driving The Future Agenda Of Boards

Chairman As Leaders – Driving The Future Agenda Of Boards

Trust building and Integration as critical leadership skills that will be required of Business in the future is a perspective that is in short supply at the moment. Helen Pitcher OBE argues that we can not afford to ignore the 30% to 40% tranche of females emerging from Commercial, Organisational and Charitable Boards who are likely to have these skills, as such we need to rapidly accelerate the numbers of Female Chairman of our Boards.

Creating an Effective Board

Creating an Effective Board

An article by Helen Pitcher OBE for the Company Secretary’s Review
Volume 41, Issue 1, June 2017

This article from Helen Pitcher OBE, Chairman of Advanced Boardroom Excellence looks at the role of the Chairman and the Company Secretary in the design of a Board information architecture and information management strategies.

From Procedure to Process Behaviour

From Procedure to Process Behaviour

An article by Helen Pitcher OBE for the Company Secretary’s Review
Volume 39, Issue 8, August 2015

This article from Helen Pitcher OBE, Chairman of Advanced Boardroom Excellence looks at some of the influences driving the change in focus on Board behaviour, but more importantly asks if you are ready willing and able to adapt your behaviour to support the Chairman and the Board to deliver the future of Board effectiveness.

Are you on the crest of the diversity wave – or struggling to catch up?

An article by Advanced Boardroom Excellence for INFORMED, the quarterly magazine of The Investor Relations Society, Autumn issue 2014, no 84.

Ensuring that the board has a good response to external questions about diversity is a vital part of the IRO’s work. Helen Pitcher looks at the issues involved in this area.