Thought Leadership | Board Consulting

Drawing from experience working with boards and cybersecurity executives, explore insights to enhance your readiness to land your first board seat.

A practical guide for corporate directors to harness Artificial Intelligence for their companies.

Highly effective boards ensure that succession planning never stops being a priority. It isn’t personal, it’s simply best practice.

Joining a board is pinnacle in many leaders' careers, but there is no one way to get there. Egon Zehnder's Chuck Gray shares some practical advice.

Corporate boards significantly influence the perceptions through their oversight duties of how much enterprise value creation comes from non-financial resources - many of which correspond to some key skills gaps inside the boardroom, which Egon Zehnder's Lisa Blais highlights.

To learn more about the growing importance of shared purpose in today’s environment, Egon Zehnder’ Directors Development Program held a session on the topic led by Arundhati Bhattacharya, earlier Chair of State Bank India and currently Chair and CEO of Salesforce India.

As part of the Directors Development Program, a session centered on the role boards play in developing leadership, talent and culture, was led by Kalpana Morparia, former Chair and CEO of JP Morgan’s South and Southeast Asia region, who explored the best practices for fostering a healthy board culture, diving into strategies and experiences she has embraced throughout her career.

Insights from 20 experienced operating partners and buy-out investors from various private equity funds from Shanghai and Hong Kong.

In light of the increased pressure on chairs to ensure engagement and contribution of board directors, we asked survey participants about the best way to measure board effectiveness and the individual contributions of directors.

Directors want to simplify compensation and raise fixed retainer fees to attractive yet sufficient levels.

The time commitment board directors and chairs need to invest in their board work has increased significantly, and we expect this trend will continue. To appropriately compensate board work, it is essential to dive deeper into companies’ expectations of board directors.​

An essential part of board work is done in its committees, making it necessary to understand the types of committees that have been established and if these committees mirror their importance both now and in future board work.