Directors' Consortium: Private Company Board Members
Learn leading-edge strategies, frameworks, and best practices for making complex board decisions — with customized cohorts for public and private company board members.
Big data, shareholder activism, cybersecurity, financial literacy, liability risk: The list of issues and responsibilities for board members is ever-increasing and ever-changing. That’s why Stanford GSB and Stanford Law School have partnered to help you become more informed and effective. Drawing on cutting-edge research, current governance issues, emerging topics, and practical knowledge, go beyond compliance to explore how directors can best represent shareholders and other stakeholders.
Customized cohorts for public and private company board members. Interested in our Public Company Board Member cohort?Visit the information page.
Key Benefits
Understand your fiduciary, legal, and ethical oversight responsibilities, and develop strategies to more effectively serve stakeholders.
Benchmark against best practices in corporate governance.
Evaluate the role of the board in strategy development, evaluation, and evolution.
Develop frameworks for prudent legal strategies to navigate litigious environments.
Formulate strategies for managing CEO succession and evaluating executive compensation.
Share, discuss, and connect with your specific cohort of public or private company board members who confront similar challenges.
Carry out your duties more confidently and exercise sound judgment in all aspects of your board service.
This program qualifies for 17 hours of recertification credits for directors maintaining their NACD Directorship Certification®.
Go in with an open mind and see what the experience can offer you. The dividends will pay off through the coaching, the guidance, and the relationships you make.
Ellen DeSanctis
Board Director
Plains All American Pipeline
Meet the Faculty Leadership
This program is developed by Amit Seru, Ron Kasznik, and Anne Beyer, and taught by a team of tenured, strategically focused, cross-disciplinary faculty who are experts in their fields. Together, they bring
Amit Seru
The Steven and Roberta Denning Professor of Finance
Co-Director, Directors’ Consortium
Anne Beyer
The Staehelin Family Professor of Accounting
Co-Director, Directors’ Consortium
Earn Your Certificate
Upon successful completion of Director’s Consortium, you will be awarded a Certificate of Completion in recognition of your achievement and the investment you have made in your education and professional development.
