How to set your strategic board agenda

Focus only on those strategic items that matter

Is your board struggling with long-winded discussions that don’t lead to tangible outcomes? Learn the techniques to craft a concise, strategic agenda that ensures your board spends time on what truly matters—the organisation's long-term goals and key priorities.

What You Will Learn:

How to identify and prioritise agenda items that align with your strategic vision
Tips for maintaining focus and steering clear of unproductive conversations
Proven methods to clearly define action points, ensuring each board paper serves a purpose
Strategies to engage your directors and empower them to contribute more effectively

With a well-structured agenda, you can keep your board discussions focused, productive, and aligned with your organisation’s strategic objectives.

Don’t miss this opportunity to refine your board’s approach to meetings and drive the success of your organisation.

BONUS: Includes a strategic board meeting agenda guide and template

Managing Director - Conscious Governance

Steven Bowman FAICD

Steven Bowman is Managing Director of Conscious Governance and brings a great depth of experience facilitating Board reviews and strategic planning processes.

Steven has held numerous senior executive, CEO and Board positions in USA and Australia, as well as authoring and co-authoring over 14 books on governance, strategy, risk and executive leadership

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CEO - Boardroom Advisors

John Courtney

John G. Courtney is the founder and CEO of multi award-winning BoardroomAdvisors.co, which provides fractional c-suite and part-time directors to growing businesses.

With over 40 years of experience as a board director, John has started seven businesses across various sectors, including digital marketing and management consultancy. His extensive background includes serving as a mentor for Microsoft Ventures and Oracle Startup Cloud Accelerator.

John has been recognised as one of the Top 100 UK Entrepreneurs in the UK by City AM, received a Lifetime Achievement Award from techSPARK as well as Global Entrepreneur of the Year from Great British Entrepreneur Awards.

Executive Coach - Board Chair

Margot Foster AM OLY

Margot Foster AM OLY has experience on a wide range of boards, principally not for profit, bringing her knowledge and insights to governance education with a highly practical focus. She is a board governance specialist through her consultancy Boardroom Excellence featuring her signature program The Boardroom School Margot is Vice President Motorsport Australia, Chair of Sports Environment Alliance, chair of two nomination committees and chairs committees for both World Athletics and World Sailing. She is a mediator and a happy ex lawyer. At the Olympic Games 1984 and Commonwealth Games 1986 Margot won bronze and gold medals, respectively, in rowing. In 2015 she was became a Member of the Order of Australia for significant service to sports governance, women’s sport and as an elite athlete.

Why attend?

There are only 11 (or so) opportunities for your board members to come together for their cyclical board meeting in a year. This webinar will help you;

To see how a strategic agenda can be constructed with ease
Learn how to keep your board focused
Minimise the amount of unnecessary information going to your board

In this webinar, you will learn how to create a concise and coherent strategic board meeting agenda.

"I like how the webinars are concise, and deliver what is required, to make modifications to current systems. No pressure and no selling at your events is great. We can simply focus on the great content"

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Secretary, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

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Company Secretary, SME (51-100 emp.)

"This webinar provided an excellent opportunity to think through what is currently provided to my Boards and opportunities where improvement could be achieved."

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Board Secretary, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

"These 45 min sessions are fast becoming my staple brief sessions for topical skills update. Keep them going please."

Andrea M

Human Resource & Compliance, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

"Thank you, this was a helpful session and very timely - our board has just this year planned specific strategic discussion topics into our board calendar, to help us be more strategic."

Peter L

Chairman, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

"Thank you for providing a forum for knowledge sharing, being a CEO is often isolating. This opens the conversation up for sharing experience and positive, solutions based outcomes"

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Chairman, Mid-Market (101-500 emp.)

How to set your strategic board agenda

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3rd October 2024

9:30 am BST | 9:30 pm NZST

45 minutes

Your Expert Speakers

Steven Bowman FAICD

John Courtney

Margot Foster AM OLY

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