Directors’ Consortium: Public 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.
Apply By September 4, 2026
Start Date October 19, 2026
Critical perspectives for company directors.
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 Private Company Board 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®.
Who Should Attend?
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Current board members of public companies as well as those recently invited to join a board
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We also offer a private company board member cohort. Visit the information page.
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Board members of foreign corporations that are or may be listed on U.S. exchanges
Learning in Action
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 cutting-edge research, thought leadership, and experiential learning to your program experience.
Amit Seru
The Steven and Roberta Denning Professor of Finance
Co-Director, Directors’ Consortium
Ron Kasznik
The Paul L. and Phyllis Wattis Professor of Management
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.
Applications due September 4, 2026
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