Corporate Governance

Directors' duties, board conduct, committee work and the difference between governing an organisation and managing it.

Levels it usually serves: L5 Senior, L6 Executive

What Members Come Away With

• What a director is personally liable for
• Running a board that decides rather than reports
• Committee charters that work

In Scope

Directors' duties and personal liability, board and committee conduct, board effectiveness reviews, the boundary between board and executive, succession, and induction for newly appointed directors and trustees.

Out of Scope

Not company secretarial services and not legal opinion on a live matter. Practitioners on this register train boards. They do not sit on yours, and they do not draft your resolutions.

Situations We See

The Newly Appointed Director

Somebody has joined a board for the first time, often as a non-executive or a trustee, and has personal liability they have not fully grasped. Usually bought as an induction for one or two people rather than a full board session.

The Board That Reports Instead of Deciding

Meetings run four hours, the pack is two hundred pages, and nothing is actually resolved. This is board effectiveness work and it is uncomfortable by design. Say in the brief how frank you want the facilitator to be.

The Organisation Whose Governance Has Been Questioned

After an audit finding, a regulatory letter or a public incident. Sensitive, and often bought quietly. Every provider here is used to that and no posted need carries your name.