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    On campus program
    High Performance Boards

    How board directors make a real difference.

    On campus program

    High Performance Boards

    How board directors make a real difference.

    Location Lausanne

    Length 3 days

    Fee CHF 12,500

    Next program starts 27 February 2023

    Discover the best practices in board governance and enhance your board effectiveness

    Inspired by the latest research and drawing on more than 40 years of board education experience, IMD’s High Performance Boards is an essential board member training for issues related to supervisory board performance and effectiveness.

    Together with peer board members and prominent chairpersons from around the world, you learn about successes and failures and explore best practices in depth. You also identify the strategies, structures and processes that make boards the driving force behind their company’s success.

    Join the leading Directors’ education program since 1977 and see how you can make a positive difference to your board.

    Best practices

    Identify what makes best practice boards.
    Boardroom dynamics

    Drive positive board culture.
    Succession plan

    Ensure successful succession plans.
    Crisis management

    Learn how to manage a board in crisis.
    Risks management

    Evaluate and mitigate risk and maximize opportunities through strategic board involvement.
    Discover the learning journey
    You and your class

    You are a supervisory board member or a chairperson. The program also welcomes family business members and teams from the same board seeking to improve their overall effectiveness.

    Your class is carefully selected to ensure a truly diverse group of global peers. Your class will become a trusted resource, encourage your learning journey and surprise you in many unanticipated beneficial ways both during and beyond your classroom experience.

    72%

    BOARD MEMBER

    28%

    CHAIRPERSON

    51

    AVERAGE AGE

    26

    INDUSTRIES

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    High Performance Boards addresses the all-important question of a board’s sense of purpose by exploring in detail the chairman/CEO and the board/executive committee relationships. Key takeaways for me include how to optimize the composition of a board and how to engage with non-governmental organizations.

    Michel Demaré Deputy Chairman, Louis Dreyfus Company, The Netherlands
    Learn more about impact

    90% of boards fail to be of real value to their executive teams. In these times of increasing complexity, boards are confronted with a multitude of new risks and challenges. The need for more sophisticated board governance skills has never been greater to adapt swiftly and effectively.

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    Didier Cossin Program Director
    Experience the program
    What helps boards to be at the top of their game? – Discover the program highlights.
    What helps boards to be at the top of their game? – Discover the program highlights.
    High Performance Boards series – A conversation with Michel Demaré.
    High Performance Boards series – A conversation with Michel Demaré.
    High Performance Boards series – A conversation with Peter Maurer.
    High Performance Boards series – A conversation with Peter Maurer.
    Next start & Fee

    Length: 3 days on campus.

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    Dates
    27 Feb – 2 Mar 2023
    Location
    Lausanne
    Length
    3 days
    Price
    CHF 12,500
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    Lausanne
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