Resources for the boardroom.
The Fellowship publishes its instruments openly. What fellows use to prepare for board service is available to any leader doing the same work, whether or not they ever apply.
The Board
Readiness Toolkit
Four instruments, used in Board Preparation.
These are the working documents fellows complete during the twelve weeks. They are published because a candidate who arrives at a nominating committee having done this work is a better director, and because governance is not improved by keeping it scarce.
01
Skills matrix
The instrument a nominating committee actually uses. It maps the competencies already seated on a board against those it lacks, and it is the document on which a decision to open a seat is made. Fellows learn to read a proxy statement's skills matrix and to locate the gap they fill.
02
Board value
proposition
A single page stating what a director brings to a specific board, in the language of enterprise risk and strategy rather than of technology. Most technical candidates cannot write this page, and it is the reason they are eliminated on a long list.
03
Due diligence
checklist
What to establish about a board before accepting a seat: D&O coverage and its exclusions, litigation and restatement history, auditor tenure and any disagreements, controlling-shareholder dynamics, director turnover, and the culture of the executive session. A seat accepted without this work is a liability accepted without this work.
04
The first
ninety days
What a new director reads, asks, and does in the first quarter: the onboarding sequence, the first executive session, the questions that establish altitude, and the mistakes that mark a first-time director as an operator in a director's chair.
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Free, and sent whether or not you intend to apply.
The Quarterly
Director Briefing
Ninety minutes, four times a year, on what boards should be asking.
A working session for sitting directors, governance counsel, and search professionals on the questions boards should be putting to management this quarter about artificial intelligence and cybersecurity. It is free to attend, independent of any search, and it is not a sales channel for the Fellowship or its partners.
The briefing is published afterward as a written summary, so that a director who could not attend can still put the questions.
Writing
What the Fellowship publishes.
The annual
report
Published each year from MOB 1 onward: how many fellows completed, how many took a seat, of what kind, and within what period. The methodology is published in advance of the first results, so that the definitions cannot be adjusted once the numbers are known.
Read the methodology →Governance
notes
Short written pieces on the questions boards are facing: the four-day disclosure clock, cyber insurance against D&O, AI model risk overseen rather than audited, and the practical reading of the EU AI Act for a US board.
Read the notes →The rubric
The five dimensions on which fellows are assessed, and the standard required to pass, published in full and in advance.
See the curriculum →The charter
The independence terms that govern admissions, assessment, partner relationships, and the fellowship's refusal of placement fees from any party.
Read the charter →
For Employers
The sponsorship case, written out.
Most fellows are funded by their employers. The Fellowship provides the material to make that case internally: the syllabus, a summary of what a sponsoring company gets back, and a letter from the Program Director. A governance-fluent technology executive briefs their own board better, and is worth more to a current employer than to anyone else.
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